How to edit LANDSCAPE PHOTOS in LIGHTROOM like THAT ICELANDIC GUY

so you decided to click on this video that's uh perfect because today i'm going to show you exactly how that icelandic guy that's me you know edits landscape photos in lightroom there's going to be a like a breakdown of my workflow and i think you know it's going gonna be a chill veto just gonna have a good time here you know so just sit back relax and uh yeah let's edit some photos all right so this is the photo that we are gonna work with today and when we are done with it it's gonna look you know something like this pretty cool right then there is a bunch of things i did to make the photo look like this as i said in the intro this just like a breakdown of my thought process and what goes into these photos and like it's different from every photo of course but still kind of the same so just sit back relax and let's edit this photo all right so this is a drone shot and the first thing i usually do is to crop it i've already cropped it to like save time but i use four by five because this takes max amount of space on instagram and yeah i'm an instagram addict so the after that i go through the you know basic settings here and for this let's just and this is just to get a little bit of a starting point now if you're holding alt while dragging this it will show you once you start to clip so here now this is way too white over here so we can just have it a little bit like this even take down the highlights i think it's so hard when you're creating like tutorials for lightroom when it's like uh like do this and this is our ad for photos because as i said so different like some photos i take highlights down all the way some photos takes the you know shadows up a lot to open up the shadows so it's so different like from what photos i'm working with but there's still like a red thread through everything and what i think and it's like constantly changing so let me see we'll get back to that and i think like the most important part when to me when i'm editing lightroom photos is that i'm just like this is an artistic expression of like something i want to look and i want to look nice or whatnot and so i'm constantly you know changing and just testing this thing like is this slime nice what is this oh cool this is awesome right now anyways let's jump back into the lightroom next up we are gonna go all the way down here to calibration i like to set like a base tone of my image to minus 30 and plus 20 here and then plus seven i think this like puts um like a nice tone to main image obviously this became way too orange but we're gonna change that in a second but i think this is nice and and and the calibration like i find some things that i dig a whole lot and use like currently this is this is what i do to my photos but like i do have tutorial a little bit later and it might have changed so here we are in the hsl so these i absolutely love so for this photo i really wanted to become more like green this is shot in the not autumn but the spring so the green hasn't come yet but lucky us that we can just change that so i'm going to take up the yellows quite a bit and up with the oranges quite a bit just like so to get that green hue in it and the greens we can take the greens a little bit up to lime two now i like things when like especially with this one as you can see there's already a whole of the fog so like this is already a pretty much photo so what i'm gonna do i'm gonna drop the saturation on the yellows like this and we might drop it on the oranges just tiny bit like so now let's see we with the blue and akka we have blue in the river and i want to exaggerate that in a second but first let's find like a nice blue point for this and we can take down the saturation here too and take this down too all right so i think that this is like starting to become uh like a pretty nice starting point for us to just work with image like this might just add this up to 50 like so let's down to 20. okay and to be honest i don't think we have like i think these are the main colors in the image the orange the yellow the green aqua and blues i think we have really any purple or anything we might do a little bit of that in a second but i think this is like the main thing i don't want to spend too much time here in the history slider for a second tutorial because this is like so different from each photo what to do here but let's jump then down to the tone curve and don't worry if you think that the photo is way too grey now bear with me it's gonna look sick you saw how it's gonna look so for a ton curve like for the longest time i used to crush the shadows quite a bit drag them up like this and like this classic instagram look you've probably seen it and then i just got sick of it and like so many other of us so i haven't done that for a while but recently i've actually introduced the fade back to my photos but much much much more subtle so i usually go up here and you can see the output and have it around 20 and then we add that there's a classic s curve here and i do a little bit with the shadows to get much more contrast of the image just like so i think that was nice and honestly i think that just a tiny little bit of um fade does so much for the photo and it just makes a little bit more elegant but it's so easy to go overboard here and that's what all of us did you know back in 2016 which is extremely faded photos but it's a tiny bit of weight to in my opinion um i liked it the whole lot now i think this is a nice starting point for now we might go back to this it's a little bit muddy here but we're gonna open it up in a second all right so let's take a look at this again vibrance i like to take that up quite a bit to get more photo colors in it and saturation i like i usually like when i pump the vibrance this much i usually take that down just a little bit to compensate for that now here is a thing that i think is fantastic so for the longest time for line station photos like all of us used to firstly we did this because you saw the clarity and you were like wow i have to do more then you start to realize it's too much but for the longest time i always always had a little clarity on my on my you know landscape photos now the biggest difference from my landscape photos like one two years ago and now is that i always take down the clarity so i know i i would never have thought that i would like i've said that but i usually take down the clarity to around minus 10 to always all the way down to -30 depending on the photo for all photos now and i just think that looks like i like test it out and and let me know what you think i think it looks sick i just think it makes it a little more soft look and it's much more elegant so all my photos have a little bit down clarity now and i absolutely love it if i want them to be like a little bit more sharp you might compensate adding a little bit of texture you can just do one here and yeah i think this looks pretty cool now contrast i am going to add the contrast a little bit up and i think we are starting to get a nice starting point here all right so now let's go down again and we go to let's just start with the detail so i like to sharpen my images like a little bit and after details a tiny bit but i always like to use the masking so if you have no idea what this is it's basically if you hold it in alt or probably optional mac and just like this you can see these lines and now it's you're just sharpening the white parts of the image so i don't like to sharpen the entire image like now now everything has become sharpness sharpening sharpening sharpness now everything is sharpened instead i just like to do it like this here and i usually like to have pretty high around 75 even 80. so now just the white part zero getting sharpened and i think also that looks very very very nice now no need to not noise reduct this video this video this i'm it's too early here it's like eight o'clock in the morning but and i have not had a single coffee or anything i just came to the studio before my the other people commented okay we're gonna film a little video here so color grading let's do this this i think is like this is fantastic and once this is finished we are going to go to go to the you know things that i think makes the biggest difference in my like editing now for the shadows let's make this way more blue so we do 200 and i think that's a beautiful color so add a little bit of blue to the shadows maybe not this much let's have it 18 then the highlights let's add the same color the same blue color to the highlights but just a tiny tiny bit like seven you can see that this makes it much more colder and i just i like this this is gonna this is gonna look good light right so and for the mid tones let's just add a tiny hint of a like a greenish orange like slightly a tiny tiny hint over like this color but just like very very very very subtle and then if you want you can plant it and we can have the plant just a little bit up and balance it out just a tiny bit like so okay so this is a nice starting point i know it still looks a little bit muddy and all that but we are gonna this is gonna look good so once we're finished here we go all the way up and let's uh i'm already want to make this a little bit more green just like so and we go up to this here okay now i want to drag down the exposure just a tiny tiny bit like so so end up with this a little bit and now what we are going to do this is where like most of the magic happens we are going to use the tools here so obviously i want to exaggerate this part and open up the fischer so we can see that and if we start to use the radial filter right here and the circle filter you know the radial filter and we do a little one like this and if you press o now you can see where it's like where you're adding it but we're going to invert it just on the official right so okay and here we are actually gonna open up the exposure a little bit and we're basically just gonna get much more you know in the shadows we can open up this place and if we zoom out there's a tiny bit no that was zooming in sorry like so we can get it much more here fit and let me see we can just open up the whites and yeah i think this is good now obviously when you're like exposing things so much exposure exposing magic no expo when you're exposing you're opening up with the lightning this much you lose a little bit of contrast so i like to just add a little bit of contrast back and then we're going to go with the brush and we're going to paint in contrast and make this pretty sick but for now i think this looks pretty pretty pretty good all right so next up let's use the brush tool and here i think this is too dark so i am gonna like lighten up this and we can just add the exposure to the tiny bit and we just do it like this we can lighten it up a little bit more cool this this i think this is starting to look good anyways i want to now add much more contrast here and one more thing i i know that i dragged down the clarity on on all of my photos now but i might take the brush and paint on some clarity to the specific points in the image that i really want to pop so instead of the entire photos becoming you know this digital clarify clarity look that we all used to think was the sickest thing ever then i'd rather paint it on so let's now add up the contrast like so and a little bit of clarity and we are going to contrast this entire thing here [Music] okay i think this looks pretty good now what we're gonna do i want to exaggerate the color of the river to make it much more blue and like really and like take out the blue color of that and that we do with the brush tool so again it's just the brush tool here and we are going to zoom in now and basically just paint the river like so like i did this much much better for the photo but for the sake of the tutorial so it doesn't take like forever you know then we're just going to do it quickly like this but obviously like the more time you spend on everything the better the result will be i know it's like we're like i'm a rocking scientist here you know i'm super smart guy and i'm telling you i'm dropping the knowledge here okay i think this looks pretty pretty good and now if you go out and talk out o i basically just want to add up the saturation quite a lot i think this looks cool might even because this is the water to declutter this tiny bit on the water like so and up with the contrast just a little bit okay i think this looks pretty good this is starting to look good now i want to add the contrast of this a little bit i see that i want a little bit more contrast i'm a sucker for contrasty photos i know that so all right so already i think this is starting to look pretty good now what i want to do is to use the gradle filter and we are actually going to add a little bit more haze i know that this photo is already let's just take down the highlights quite a bit there i think they are they're actually a little too much and i honestly think that the whites are too much too but we can take off the like this but let's take down the blocks quite a lot so as you can see i'm just going back and forth and and changing things like along the way but i think this is starting to look pretty okay just like so but what i would like to do now is to use the gradient filter and i actually want to add a little bit more haze here but it's it's already pretty hazy but if you do like this and then you take the clarity drag it down and then the dehaze and you drag that down you create this effect like it's very very moody but it's already like the photo it was super misty but this i usually do if it's not misty and i want to add that feeling you know then you do this you drag down the the haze just like so this is obviously too much but we deal with this a tiny bit here just like i think wait let me see like this looks pretty good to me okay now i think i also want to add a gradient filter here to close in and i think the photo is a little bit too bright at the moment because i really want this to be a little bit more moody photo but for this we are going to close in on here and do down with the exposure to just create a little more multi feeling coming in like so and one thing i think is cool to know is that when you're working like now you know everything this is becoming darker but maybe here i don't want this like gradient effect to take place here then you can always go to the brush and if you hold in ask now you have the minus brush and you can just erase here so it doesn't like affect anything here i think that's a pretty neat thing to know about at least and we press enter because we like this yeah i think this looks pretty cool now we have another one here i think this looks this this is starting to look pretty cool i like this you can already see you know the photo is starting to look as sick if you know what i'm saying so what more now now i would obviously go back here and i would like this photo to like i think that the color is a little bit too bright so if i just take down the luminance of the yellow it's a tiny bit like so and i might actually test like so this is if it was like super green and there were just leprechauns living here but we are gonna go i'm probably gonna take it a little more down i like the moody feeling here so as you can see i'm just testing things and seeing like what can we do to enhance this photo just a little bit okay so a few final touches that i would probably do is to drag this like a little bit more like this a little more okay get it a little lit a little darker i also really like to go to effects and add a tiny bit of vignette like so but i always feather it out and i almost always take the highlights all the way out this is just something i like if you have the highlights out you'll let the highlights in through the vignette here and then the grain i like to add a little bit of grain let's just add 30 and take the roughness down to 35 i think that looks i think that looks pretty cool now i would just go through everything again and see if there is something that i would like to do like i think that i would probably like to brighten up these areas a little bit and this is a little bit too muddy so then i would just come here and i would brighten up this area like something something like this and yeah i think it looks pretty cool like i might actually also just just on the uh the rock formation get a little more maybe not clarity but it's a tiny bit tiny bit of contrast just get the rock formation here to pop and become a little bit contrasty [Music] and then honestly one thing that makes the biggest difference in like my workflow when i'm editing photos is that i like once i think like i have a cool image i usually close it down and i do something else i go up stand up and then like an hour later i come back and take a like new look at it with fresh eyes because it's so easy to get caught up in like this is cool this is cool and all of a sudden you've done a whole bunch of things and you don't see maybe like oh whoa this was maybe two blue or this is too contrasty or why did it do this and it's so nice to just have fresh pair of eyes and work on it again so i do this like two three times maybe more you know and and every time i come back i'm like yeah okay this could look a little bit better because and then i'm not just like so like deep into my editing of the photo so that's that's really you know that's really probably like once started to do that my photos became so much better but all in all this is like a pretty standard workflow for me working on a you know landscape photo as i said i start with the like this the basic correction here then i go down to the calibration i usually have things i like to do here then it's like hey slider i like the color grading add in some shadows and in the highlights like we might add a little bit more if you want this to be a little bit cold there just like so you can just see the difference this is like a little bit too warm here add a little bit of blue in the shadows and boom it looks so much nicer then once the hdl sliders are done i like to add my tone curve i come back here to the basic correction and see if there is anything i can tweak and then the real magic happens in the tools here and if you want me to do like a proper tutorial on the tools let me know in the comments down below and i'll i'll do that but this is basically my workflow for for lightroom anyways if you want me to also make more videos like this because i personally love to watch like photographers work bloggers i always pick up something that is a little bit new like ah maybe i should try this i'll definitely do that because i think this is super super fun and yeah if you could smack that like button but done for me it really helps me out consider subscribing because i create a bunch of 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Id: 29mteYtec9A

Length: 19min 46sec (1186 seconds)

Published: Sun May 02 2021