When processing a photo with such stark lighting as this be mindful that you don’t create overly artificial light where it shouldn’t be. Notice how the light comes in from the right of the frame and illuminates the tops of mountains? Yet the foreground is in shadow and so are the areas where the sun is blocked by the cliffs. This is especially true when the sunlight is close to the horizon in the early morning or late afternoon. The reason for this is because there’s nothing more telling that a photo has been blatantly over-processed than sunlight appearing to miraculously illuminate the frame from different directions. When you process your landscape images it’s very important to pay attention to the direction from which the natural light is falling in the image. Meaning, your main light source for your photographs comes from one spot. Sunlight comes from that big ball of fire in the sky and that makes it very directional by nature. Photography is all about light and in landscape photography, 99% of the time the only light source in your compositions will be the sun, or in some cases the moon, which is just reflected sunlight (science). Now, let’s talk about some ways you can give your landscapes a good haircut and push your processing right up to the boundaries of realism without tipping over the edge. So the tips you’re about to learn here come from my own creative tastes and style for landscapes which lean towards an “enhanced” realism but solidly anchored in reality nonetheless.
Just like a good haircut.īefore we get further into this, I want to go on record and say that in my opinion there is no “correct” way to process any photograph. What I mean is that when an image is well-processed the viewer will know something has been changed while not being overly apparent and in the end, they like what they see. Not only does it confuse people and make them think I’m weird but it is also incredibly accurate when it comes to processing realistic landscape photographs. That’s one of my favorite analogies when it comes to explaining my approach to editing my own photographs. This workflow is 100% nondestructive and you will be able to customize it to fit your very own style of shooting and editing.A well-processed photograph should be just like a good haircut.
#EDITING LANDSCAPE PHOTOS PLUS#
Plus with the gas prices skyrocketing ( hello inflation ? ) we have another thing to me sad about when we drive to a location and we get average results.īut Today I am going to drive your sadness away, because I will show you how I edited an average photo and transformed it into a cinematic landscape by using only Affinity Photo!Īs always, I will start in the Develop persona to make some adjustments and after that I will dive into Affinity photo where I will complete the edit using adjustment layers and a few practical tricks that will take the photo to the next level.
The sky is boring the light is not what we expected, and everything seem to go sideways. Sometimes the weather Gods do not favor us when we go out to shoot landscapes.
#EDITING LANDSCAPE PHOTOS FREE#
In today’s episode / free Affinity Photo Tutorial I will show you from start to finish how I edited a landscape photo in non-ideal conditions and how I managed to transform an average image to an amazing landscape photo!
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