Okay, so now we can start with our workflow. So I think the white balance is quite okay. Maybe a bit more blue, just a bit. Okay, but I think the camera did a good job here. Exposure exposures, maybe a bit more, something like this. And now comes a really important step.

So as I said, the sky seems to be burned out here in this image. But we have as we have an HDR with the combined information of these three files, we can bring down the highlights completely. And now Lightroom uses the information of the darker exposure. So you see, the sky is now visible, and we have all the details. Then I open up the shadows to maybe about 80. And of course now looks a bit weird and we need more contrast again.

So I Press and hold the Alt key. And now we are just divides until we see something burns out. So it's, it's okay that these that the sun burns out a bit, but don't do it like this because then we already we also haven't burned out sky and we don't want this. So we maybe go something like like 25 or so. Okay? For the blacks the same we go to the left in the negative direction, maybe 235 something like this.

So you see I'm in the before and after we have much more information in the image. So we have all the details in the sky and all the details in the rock. But now it looks a bit HDR and to prevent this we go minus curvature Maybe minus, I usually go minus 20 something like this. And now comes an important point because we need more color in the image. And we can do this by adjusting the vibrance and the saturation. So yeah, maybe we can go to about 50 Okay, and saturation of course also, maybe about 40 something like this.

Okay, now we have much more colors, much more dynamic in the in the photo. So we directly go to the, to bring bring a more because it was really a sunset and actually it doesn't look like a sunset at all. So I think we need more red and more more orange in the sky. So we can do this by going to the Split Toning and now select Hello. So by pressing and holding the Alt key, we can choose a color which we like. Maybe something like this.

Bit orange, okay. And saturation. Yeah, we can add a lot of color. Maybe like that. Okay, wonderful. And for the shadows we also can add color.

I often do that I am doing that the shadows get really blue color and the highlights could have worn red or orange color because this also creates depth in your photos. So maybe, to this. Yeah. And now saturation. Not so much just a bit because it's, it's here adds a bit of blue in the reflection of the water here in the front. Maybe That's okay.

Wonderful. So now we go to lens corrections and make sure that remove chromatic aberration is enabled. Because when you're shooting right into the sun, it's often that you have these chromatic aberrations and we need to remove them. But Lightroom does a really great job here. So we can just at this point and everything's done. And then we go to upper right and click origin.

And let's see what Lightroom does. Okay, not really much. So I think the photo is already correct level up. So then let's crop the photo a bit. So I think this isn't so interesting. This rock here that is a little bit disturbing.

Maybe like that, and I think there are also too many rocks in the front Maybe crop it like that. On this side, it's fine. And the sky isn't so interesting here. So maybe let's club the sky as well that we have the rule of thirds or so maybe like this but so wonderful. Okay, so now let's take care of the sky to get more colors into the sky. And we can do this by using local adjustments so I'm to close the photo so I call it close the photo.

I always use an graduated filter on the top and just docked and I'm just back up here on the top of the photo. So this closes the photo and brings the viewer right into your image. That's an important point. So I do it on every picture I edit in Lightroom I add an grade into the top and I duplicate it and turn it around and then gradient to the bottom. Maybe not so dark, maybe his something like that. Okay, this looks great.

Wonderful. Maybe not so much here as well. And now we can add a second gradient by just clicking in new. Make a new gradient. When holding the Shift key, you can make it straight. Okay, now we can add a bit of warm colors here and The exposure bit more and of course, increase the saturation a bit maybe like that.

Wonderful. Okay and now we can also create more colors by using a radial filters. So for example here on the top, can you make a Radial Filter we can reset the exposure and now we have quite a bit saturation. Make sure that feather is at 100. And we can now here at the bottom, select the color also, which we like. But not too much.

Maybe something like that. Wonderful. Big, less Okay. And I think it's too bright here on the right hand side. So we can make another radio suitor here and load the exposure now. And maybe we can add a bit of red here as well.

So let's see. Not so much. There has to be very subtle with these and adjustments, because otherwise it would look unnatural. Okay, wonderful. Click ok. Maybe we can add a bit more contrast. Good my saturation and my runs I think it looks quite well.

So let's use the Yeah, something like this. So these were the important steps to really make a local adjustments and to close up the photo at the top and at the bottom to add here and gray and filter to really get the few into the photo and then add a bit more color you can do color adding by by the Split Toning and through local adjustments like the adjustment brush, and also the radial filters. So I think looks quite good. So let's take care of the noise because as we open up the shadow so much we have a bit of noise Stupid of noise reduction. So I usually go to 10 here and we also have a color cast we can remove this with this slider here and sharpening and go around 90. So I have a rule that I take 100 minus the luminance of noise reduction.

So in this case 100 minus 10. And so I said the amount of sharpening to 90 in this image and an important point is the masking. We need to mask if you hold the Alt key you see your mask and everything which is black won't get affected by the sharpening everything which is white will get sharpened so it's like in Photoshop when you have a mask So, maybe something like that. Okay, now photo is really sharp and it's nice and reduced. Wonderful, maybe. Let's also go here to the D haze slider.

D is the photo a bit, just a tiny bit, not so much. You have to be really much out and you don't overdo it with this slider here. Okay, so if we take a look at before and after, by pressing y, you see there's big change. Much more colors, much more dynamic. Really. Yeah.

Also, as we crop the photo really panoramic, it gets more dynamic. And I usually do this that I do a little panoramic cropping at every photo. And what we also can do is add a little vignette to that Make it more interesting. Just a little bit because as we already have the gradients, and maybe we can run it up here again. So let's go to the gradient again. And just yeah, and so much.

Okay. And now we are at this point of the raw development of the raw editing. Maybe Ozzy in the trouble bill, a little bit less darkening. Yeah, and it gets natural. Now comes the magic. I call it magic.

Because now we check an adjustment brush, and we try to do something like dodge and burn. I could do it with portraits and Photoshop. You can also do this with landscape images. So for example, you can make important things as the reflection here and the water brighter, and darkening other things which aren't important for the moment. You can darken them up. So here I really like the reflection and due to the fact that I had an polarized and an ND filter, so I made a long exposure of I think it was 10 seconds.

And with the polarizer the waters really clear. I really like the smooth clear effect here in the front. So I think we can brighten this up a little bit. So just brush over these parts of the image and also here with the rocks. Is it smooth for gets a really nice effect and then just light it up a bit. Maybe something like that.

And also other interesting parts for example, if you think think this rock is interesting, it just brought up the good all the fortress that it gets more attention of the fewer just brush over it and brought it up. So let's take a look with the brush strokes did so switched off and switch on so you see the reflection here in the water and you have to do it on a way that the viewer doesn't realize that you have brushed into the picture here. But if they don't know that you did brushstrokes here, they won't realize it if you don't overdo it so just take a look at other things then come back to your photo look at it again and then you say oh was there I can clearly see that I brushed here some things in order to say Oh, it's too less you can add more.

But be be really subtle and don't overdo, do it with these adjustments. But I think this really gets the photo in bitten interesting pilot makes it interesting, more interesting. Then just then just do a normal road development. So for example here a bit more. Yeah, I think it looks quite good. Last year on the fortress looks a bit foggy now.

So by pressing the Alt key, and then brushing over the part of the image, we'll remove the brush strokes here. So it's an eraser. Yeah, and I think it looks very nice. So if we are done, we just click Done. And now we have one issue here in the middle. we zoom in, we see that here is really much noise in this little rock.

So let's take care of that. That's no problem. We can just use adjustment brush, brush over it. So, okay, so this rock and here at the bottom as well. And now we can do noise reduction here. So we just go to minus 100.

And it takes some time so Landrum needs some time to render this. And we can also reduce the saturation these parts. And then we can just click Done. And we'll out without it's much better with the noise in these parts of the image. So we zoom out, and we can see the whole image. Yeah, I think it looks good.

And if you take a look at the before and after that change, really, we changed really many things. We added dynamic to the image by adding these local adjustments. This brighten up these reflections here in the water. And I do this with every image I asked myself what are the really important parts of these image of this image? What are the, the points I wanted here to look at and these parts I brighten them up. So that's really important that you ask yourself this question and then write these parts up.

So we've started with the local with the with the basic adjustments by bringing down the highlights, open up the shadows, setting our whites and our blacks. Then go minus clarity and vibrance saturation go to the Split Toning add colors of them with the Split Toning, then at local colors by using gradients and radial filters, close up the photo and on the top and on the bottom. And also then do the magic but dodging and burning so that the viewer has Sometimes who can where he can look at. So that's really important. That is the basic raw workflow I use every time. And when I edit landscape photos, of course, also the cropping is important.

Because if you crop a photo more panoramic, it feels wider it gets more dynamic feeling if you look at it. So I often use this panoramic cropping. Maybe here the left in the left corner, we can find up a bit more custom rocks could dock but that's no problem. Maybe like this. Wonderful. And then we can just click down.

And now important step is just go away. drink a coffee, for example. Then go back to your image, look at it, and then you will see things which you Yeah, said, Oh, that's not good. That's fine. And that's just a bit more exposure here. And then you can fix this And then you're done with the editing in Lightroom