WILDLIFE Photo Editing with NEW Lightroom TRICKS

WILDLIFE Photo Editing with NEW Lightroom TRICKS
In this wildlife photography Lightroom tutorial I edit this photograph in full. I have some really great dodging and burning techniques to show you as well as techniques to deal with bright spots in the background and ways to add more mood to this largely flat photograph.
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[@antonlindstrom3924]

Nice editing. Would really like a "before and after" view of the edit at the end.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much Anton. I’ve been asked that a few times, and all new videos will have the before / after at the end 😊

[@WenzellCarter]

Thank you for your excellent videos. I am relatively new to Lightroom and the Mac operating system and you are infinitely helpful in my learning journey.

[@BubblesPothowari]

Controlling "hot spots" in background and use of intersect for light fall & shadows was a good take away. Thank you Mark...

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks for watching and glad you found some value in it 😊

[@juanjocorsino101]

Excellent LR edit tricks!! Great video. By the way, what kind of bird it is? Southern carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicoides)? Thanks!!

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much! Yes, it’s a Southern Carmine Bee-Eater. I took this in Botswana on the Okavango River.

[@KobusTollig1]

Your videos keep getting better. Love your use of radial filters on the BG. Thanks for sharing bud.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much Kobus! Means a lot 👍🏻

[@bryanenright9727]

Brilliant tutorial as always Mark. I have used your technique for darkening bright spots in the background on my images….. no more distractions!…. Excellent tip. Thanks 🙏

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks for watching Bryan, and glad to hear you’ve used some techniques on your images 😊

[@richardguijt656]

Hi Mark,
Nice video again.
Small tip from my side 🤪 when you select the color picker and keep it pressed down, you can drag it to a part in the photo and it will select that color. Might make it easier to match colors of the background.
Greetings, Richard

[@MarkDumbleton]

Hey Richard, thanks for that tip. I did not know that 😊

[@woodygreen6826]

Radial gradient to tame hot spots is a great idea. Thanks.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Glad you found that trick useful, thanks so much for watching!

[@njs12706]

Another cracking piece of editing Mark. Thanks for sharing

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much Nigel!

[@ArminHirmer]

masterful, very good. thank you

[@MarkDumbleton]

I appreciate that a lot, thanks for watching 😊

[@user-cd8co2cx8p]

Great tutorial, thank you!

[@MarkDumbleton]

A great pleasure, thanks so much for watching 😊

[@Realrobertchan]

wow. thank so you much what a beautiful photo you take

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much for the comment! Really appreciated! 😊

[@cynthianicholl7433]

I love the effects applied. Just came across your channel and subscribed!

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much Cynthia! I appreciate the sub and thanks for watching 😊

[@user-kk9cw]

Hey Mark, Great tutorials they are brillant! I have a question about subtracting a mask. When I use the brish tool I sometimes accidentally remove areas (edges) I which to stay masked. Is there a settings that allows to removal of parts of the mask while protecting the areas you which to remain?

[@MarkDumbleton]

Hi, thanks so much for watching the tutorials 😊 when you subtract from a mask using a brush, whatever you paint will be subtracted, and there is no way to protect areas from being painted on.

[@jacksonteague876]

Nicely done. Thank you.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Appreciate it a lot, thanks for watching!

[@63barty]

Brilliant ! Just found your channel, been using Lightroom for years and just learned loads more !

[@MarkDumbleton]

Happy to hear that, thanks so much for the support!

[@petervalaris8496]

Excellent as usual. Thank you 🙏

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much Peter. I really appreciate that!

[@mistergenerator5430]

Excellent ! 👍👍

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much for watching! 👍🏻

[@M.L.YIP.]

😄😄😄 Thank you for your sharing.

[@MarkDumbleton]

My pleasure, thanks so much for watching.

[@Jahanswonders]

Your're aweome Mark. Always learn so much from every video. Thank you for all your great work. 🤟

[@MarkDumbleton]

I really appreciate that 🙌🏻 thanks so much!

[@martincregg]

Excellent.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much for watching Martin!

[@jerryseverson4198]

Excellent tutorial!!

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much Jerry. I appreciate the comment and thanks so much for watching!

[@photoguillerz]

Love your editing style, magnific video.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much, hope you found some value in the edit 👍🏻

[@ChrisM-01]

That was excellent. Thanks. Will subscribe.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much for the subscribe, and thanks for watching! 👍🏻

[@BrodyLando]

great video and learn so much from you. I want to learn how to blur out the background during a busy background. At times the animal looks good but unfortunately the background is just to distracting or busy. I have seen images on instagram where they make the animal basically a portrait. They somehow blur the background with a busy background and they add like a nice color to it like cool blue or warm color. Love this video and saved it to come back to try out.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much for watching! It’s tricky to blur out the background, but I might make a video about that because I’ve been asked that question a few times.

[@Wrecked01]

Good stuff!

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thank you so much!

[@jeremywood3183]

Thanks for this brilliant video. Without doubt the most useful editing video I’ve seen.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Hey Jeremy, thanks so much for the kind words, hope you found some value in it 😊

[@GandaPrakasa]

The radial mask is game changing!
Thanks for this.
Regards,
New subscriber.

[@MarkDumbleton]

It really is a great tool! Thanks for the sub 😊👍🏻

[@kapilbhallafoto]

Good teaching

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thank you 😊

[@rusluck6014]

спасибо)

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@jeguljeg1706]

On 5:00 amazing skills

[@MarkDumbleton]

Appreciate it a lot. Thanks for the comment 😊👍🏻

[@carolbell4550]

Mark I have always struggled getting "Rid of Bright Spots " in my images..... they always look false.... and too dark...... I am going to try again.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Hi Carol, my advice would be to try lower contrast in those spots if you are struggling g, sometimes that can work better than brightening or darkening something. Try that and see how it goes.

[@carolbell4550]

Thanks Mark .... am going to try now@@MarkDumbleton

[@themarksmanABP]

The biggest issue I have is that when my edit looks exactly how I want on my macbook pro... I send it to my phone (samsung s22) the colours and blacks/highlights appear different. It never looks as good as my macbook when I view them on my phone. Extremely frustrating. How do you deal with this?

[@MarkDumbleton]

Unfortunately we have no control over how the phone manufacturers calibrate their colours. Make sure to export as an sRGB jpg and check it on your phone. Might help if you’re exporting in another colour profile like Adobe RGB.

[@themarksmanABP]

@@MarkDumbleton so make sure my export is sRGB ye? thank you for this, I will try it. it makes me wonder how I can show my edits to anyone at all where it appears for them, how I,ve actually edited the tones etc. Great channel

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks for the compliment about the channel. On my iPhone the colours aren’t exactly the same as my MacBook, but it’s close. Also, what model MacBook do you have? The recent ones (no more than 2-3 years old) come very well calibrated and I when I calibrated it to check it, hardly anything changed. So the MacBook screens are super accurate.

[@themarksmanABP]

@@MarkDumbleton Have the 2019 MacBook Pro, bought it when it first came out. Even considered changing to iPhone just to see if there was improvement but it makes it awkward for my workflow

[@drpepper998]

It's a good edit but I my opinion it still looks flat.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thank you for the comment!

[@Tallermage]

How would you fix that? I'm genuinely curious

[@skolforce]

The background Looks very distracting and awful, the bird with a gradient background would be excellent, cheers

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks for the comment. Can you please explain what you mean by a gradient background?