How To Edit WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY In Lightroom | Full Edit #3

[@KobusTollig1]

Another gem bud. Well done. Love this photo.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks a lot for watching @kobustollig1 - appreciate it.

[@michael_rads_]

Another great video Mark, very informative. Thanks

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks so much for watching and the continued support man! 👊🏻

[@jackieboshoff2013]

Another great video Mark. Super shot as well. I really like your editing tutorials for wildlife photography. I noted that you first do your edits and then denoise afterwards. I always denoise first and then do my edits. Interested to know if that changes anything on the final outcome. Maybe I'll experiment on editing a photo both ways and look at the outcome

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks Jackie. I’ve got a video coming out hopefully soon about how the AI DENOISE works in LR, but in a nutshell you can do it at any stage, the DENOISE works underneath all settings you choose in LR, so regardless of you do it before or after, nothing will be different. Having said that, if you are using AI masks, it’s advisable to do NR before you do any AI masks. Lightroom doesn’t apply any settings other than the AI noise reduced file to the dng it creates, you can still remove or add any settings as you have done to the INITIAL RAW. I hope that makes sense 😊 I will make a video about it and try explain it better.

[@jackieboshoff2013]

@@MarkDumbleton cool. Most of the time I use my own masks that I created, so sometimes the occasional AI mask

[@boatman222345]

Another great hands on demonstration! I will add however that when I clicked on the KZbin link to this video it brought up a completely different video about shooting woman models. I had to go to Mark's home page to find the actual video so the link needs to be fixed.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Thanks for the comment! Where did you find the initial link? That’s strange?

[@boatman222345]

@@MarkDumbleton I subscribe to your channel so when I got the notification of the new video I clicked on it. When the video started up it was a video that had something to do with shooting portraits, I think using artificial light. I looked down at the subject title and it was for your video…weird! So I clicked on MarkDumbleton to get to your site and then clicked on the video I had intended to watch. It opened and I watched it. I just went back to the same notification link and clicked on it and this time the correct video came ip and played. Must have been a temporary glitch?

[@jasonmoore8275]

Enjoyed the edit Mark, and think the final product looks fantastic. I’d love to hear your views about the importance you place on the histogram in this type of dark image. Is it desirable to have a histogram that stretches over towards the right hand side, close to the right axis, or are you not too concerned about where the end point of the histogram on the right hand side is. II ask this because I’ve had some darker images where the histogram ends a fair distance from the right axis, and if I try and widen the coverage of the histogram, the brighter parts of the image can look too bright.

[@MarkDumbleton]

Hi Jason, thanks so much for the comment and for watching. For night images, I tend to bias the histogram more towards the left, and usually I don’t have a pure black and white point. I find with a lot of my images, I’m raising the black point and depending on the time of day, the white point varies. My advice would be to play around with the white point and see how it impacts the subject, and in the case of this Leopard image, too much white creates too much contrast and also makes the orange colour become more yellow and bright. In this example, the white point is quite a way in from the right edge of the histogram.

[@jasonmoore8275]

Thanks for the comprehensive explanation Mark. That makes total sense