Okay, so welcome to the editing number four, I will show you how you get this image out of this raw file. So back to Lightroom. I already imported our raw file. Now it's a raw file of the Sony A seven R. So I can show you the EXIF data it was taken with an N d folder. So I could extend the exposure time to 82 of a second and aperture h just to have big sharpness of the photo and ISO 131 millimeter at full frame. So these were the EXIF data.

And now we will start with the raw development. So at first we maybe crop the photo because I think yeah, here we have a little bit less details in the skies or we can crop the sky out just a bit. Maybe something like that and also here the trees, we can cut these trees out and make the rule of thirds here. And also the rocks here aren't as interesting and on this side also so that we just get a bit closer to the fortress just a bit have a different image look. So okay then as a second step, make sure that enable profile corrections is switched on. So but this is by default, I can show you what this does in this image.

Okay, so with the size lens, it doesn't have a big effect. It still removes a little bit of distortion and vignetting and also make sure that we activate remove chromatic aberration as we again shot into the sun, so there were some chromatic aberration there. But Lightroom removes this very well. And also make sure that we unclick auto upright. Okay, then we have to change the cropping just a bit again. Okay, maybe picking off the rocks here.

Wonderful. Okay, so now we can start with our basic reattachment. So, at first we have to set the white balance because I think the white balance isn't correct in this raw file. So, as it was a sunset, I always like to go to shade and then add a bit of magenta. So that's my usual workflow. If I edit a sunset image, I go to shade as the white balance the preset shade and then just add a bit of magenta, maybe something like that.

Okay. Also, it's a bit dark, so maybe we brought it up just a bit. Just a bit, a bit of contrast. Okay, so now, as I do it every time I bring down the highlights I open up the shadows and now look at this. How many information are in these in this raw file here of the Sony A Sona. It's just amazing.

It's no HDR image, it's just a single RAW file and from this when you think it's completely black, we have nothing, you can still recover all the details but we won't overdo it and won't go to plus 100 I think we can stick with 70 something like that. And I will set a white point. Take the old key and hold it and look good. Nothing burns out. Okay, so nothing but odd set of Black Point. Yeah, we make sure that Don't make it too dark because ready was really dark.

It won't get black here. So something like minus 15 is fine here. Okay? As always clarity minus, maybe in this image not that much, maybe just minus 15 here, but something like minus 15 to minus 25 is always fine for clarity minus and to prevent this HDR look. So now it looks very natural, but we're still missing some color in the image. So color is the most important thing of landscape images for me.

So I left color and therefore I add some vibrance here. So we can go to 60. You see this we create new colors here. And I think we also can boost this colors By increasing the saturation a bit, something like that, and it looks much better than the roof so take a look on the before and after. This could also be a finished image if you like it them that way. But for me there is still missing some red colors because it was really when I was there it was really crazy sunset It was really red but the contract didn't catch it like it really was.

And so we can add this colors. We can go to Split Toning as I do it always after my basic retouching. Now we present hold the Alt key and select tone, color. Maybe something like that is fine, orange or red. Okay, and saturation. We can go far to the right side like that.

Can go to 90. Wonderful. And for the shadows, we can also the neck the tone, and more code tone, maybe something like that bit of magenta of purple, and also add this to the shadow. So you see these effects for example here the bride as a doc tones in the right hand corner. Oh, okay, so not too much this of course too much, but I'm quite happy with something around 3534 That looks good. Wonderful.

Okay, so now we have still to do something at the HSL and color section. So we can of course boost a bit the saturation of the red tones. So this is only affecting the red tones here. You can see this. That's too much, of course, but maybe we can go to Yeah, 10 maybe, okay. Also we can boost the saturation of the orange.

So this is affecting here, the pot at the fortress and also here, but not that much. Maybe we go to something around 60. Okay, wonderful. And I think the green tones a bit too saturated as we boosted the saturation to 34. So we can lower the saturation of the green tones a bit. Not that much.

Something like that. Okay, and to make it more natural to really get a better look, we can also change the make the greens a bit warmer. And we can do this here in the US section of the HTML HSL color section Lightroom. So just drag the greens to the left and you see what happens. They get much warmer, and it fits more to this sunset situation here. So I'll make them a bit warmer, something like that maybe under 10.

I kinda like that. Okay, luminance, we can also increase a bit luminance of the greens, because I think they are a bit dark. You can see this here just makes the photo a bit more interesting. So maybe go to something around 20. Yeah. And this looks nice.

Okay. So now we have made the basic adjustments. Maybe we can also take a look if the D haze function does something good here. So go to the D haze slider. And let's try this out. It's not that much.

Just a bit. I can turn it on and off. Yeah. Just at the A bit more contrast a bit more color contrast, of course. And maybe we can also, the red tones are really just looking a bit in magenta, so I'd like them to be a bit more orange. So we can change this in the camera calibration section of Lightroom and can change the interpretation of the red tones and make them just a bit more orange.

So for example, we go here to a value of 10. And if we turn it on and off, you see it just gets a bit warmer here. Okay, so I think that's fine. And what we also have to do is, of course, close the photo. So we take a gradient and the gradient at the top. Maybe like that.

Just lower the exposure. It's a great new, wider. Okay. And I think this part here is too bright. So we can fix this by using a Radial Filter. Adding a radial here and make sure that feather is at 100.

Good bit smaller. And now lower the exposure of the gradient. And you'll see it looks much better. doesn't look that bright anymore. Wonderful. So I kind of like that.

Then we just click Done. Okay, so um, we've closed the photo at the top. Now we have also to do this on the button. But if we, if it put a red in here, just very strange It would affect the rocks and we wouldn't see the rocks anymore. So I don't like that. And so we move this gradient, and we make the gradient a bit here on the on the left side.

So maybe like that and we lower the exposure of the gradient. Now it doesn't affect the rocks. So the rock stay bright, just this one rock is a bit affected by the gradient so we can take a brush, press the Alt key and just erase he what the gradient does on this rock. Okay, so now it doesn't affect the rock any in any way. Okay, thank click Done. Wonderful.

So we've closed up the photo at the top and at the bottom, maybe let's take a look and see we can add a minute so we Go to the effects section in Lightroom. And let's try it out. Yeah, not too much. Because it's already the gradients, something like that and we make it a bit more feather. Make it more natural. And I think the roundness and the midpoint is fine here.

That's trout would run this here like this better. Okay. And if you think the grain at the bottom is too strong, you can just go and make it a bit brighter. And then click down. Okay if we take now and look at the before and after it gets much better our image so it get really it gets warm and has colors it and we boosted the colors with the vibrance saturation and also with the local adjustments here with the with the HSL color section of Lightroom. It's a really magical and powerful tool here that we boosted the orange tones.

Look at this, it really looks nice here the orange at the fortress. I kind of like that. And we also, yeah, we have much more details in the image by by opening up the shadows. It's so magical what information could be in a raw file in a single RAW file. Just awesome. So maybe let's take a look at the noise if we have some noise here.

So we can see just a little bit of noise not really much. So the a seven is noise at ISO 100 of course, but maybe we can do some noise reduction at town. Something around 10 1011 Okay, fine. Maybe a bit color cast removal. Okay. And we will do the sharpening as always just the high pass filter, so I won't change anything here.

Won't do that with Photoshop. And now what we can also do is we can complexify the light. So we open our adjustment brush. And as always, we ask ourself the question, Where do we want the viewer to look at so I want the viewer to look at the fortress here. So I think we can create something like a leading line or we can use the river here like leading line, but just making it a bit brighter, just a tiny bit. rush over the river here, over the reflection of the sunset and just make it a bit brighter.

That's very nice. So and also he had the button I already told you, I love the effect. Have a polarizer onto an ND filter when you are long exposure because really the water then gets clear and it is really smooth here and I like to bright up this a bit okay and also hear the rock at the bottom we can light it up a bit to make it more interesting here the foreground and to complexify just the light bit. Okay, what we also can light up is the fortress, of course, because we want the few to look at it. Yeah, maybe here just a bit the reflection. That's a bit too much.

Just erase it again. That Okay, something like that. Okay, then click Done. Oh, we can do another Nope. adjustment brush. And maybe we can make it brighter here as well.

The second leading line to the fortress. And also we can complexify the light in the at the Trace here on this side, just make some of the trees a bit brighter. Okay? And then we just click Done. And of course, as always go outside, look at other things and come back. Take you can look at your picture and see if you're confident with your work.

And I think we're done with this raw development. So I really like the look of this image of the colors and I also got really positive feedback for this image so the people always also liked it and when you take it Look at the before and after. It's just magical what the possibilities of Lightroom are to really make something special out of your office. And I hope you like this lesson. And in the next lesson, I will show you the editing of my favorite landscape picture in 2017. So it is also is my most successful image.

So I've won two competitions already with that image. And the people just love it and many Facebook groups and photography groups, then also could publish in a magazine and I show you the complete editing of the raw file until to the final image and it's just amazing what we can do with my workflow in in Lightroom