The Best way to Sharpen your Wildlife Shots (step by step)

[@RobBlight]

Any other editing topics, tutorials or anything else you'd like me to cover? Let me know!

[@steved5683]

I captured a good photo can you help me with editing it.

[@allisonferris603]

I know that this is a bit behind from when u originally posted this, could u show us how u process photos? Sorry if it’s already been asked! Great video!

[@touchedbynature5445]

Excellent, Very Helpful Rob, Have Used High Pass, Never As Layer With Brush Tool, Many Thanks For Sharing.

[@billtynan3850]

Thanks for explaining this sharpening process. It works very well on my bird images and is now part of my post processing flow. Well done!

[@robertgeorge8166]

Some great tips rob, Thank you. I'm gonna give that a try.

[@alisaral3729]

Thanks for your usefull sharing

[@Abc-zb3ld]

I usually don't comment on youtube video.. But this tutorial is Very helful ... Thank you..

[@gurunath1710]

Great. My favourite method of sharpening as well.

[@RadioShackSeven]

Great tutorial Rob, really helpful, thanks for sharing...

[@TheBoysies]

Awesome stuff Rob! Thanks for the tips! Learnt a lot from this

[@TheWildlifeHomestead]

Oh damn, I'll have to give this a try. Thanks for sharing! Mandarin ducks are ridiculous haha, kinda like our Wood Ducks here in Canada.

[@spokolokofly]

great video:) thx for sharing your knowledge with us

[@footsy420]

im going to try this. I like the idea of sharpening for output resolution. I often notice noisy ghosting edges from compressing sharpening especially in instagram. I wish lightroom would let you mask sharpening other than the simple slider. One really big problem with lightroom is to have the default masking slider all the way left. That is the worst place for it to be and there is a lot of noise in my early photos because of it.

[@alxbengosu]

Lightroom has the brush tool that you can use as a masking tool

[@gidesp1]

Superbe. Merci de votre intéressant tutoriel. (Luxembourg)

[@tompolys6984]

Just discovered your You Tube channel, very impressed. I look forward to seeing where you take it.

[@RobBlight]

I'm glad you like it and thanks for saying so!

[@nickc2124]

Good stuff. I'm pretty horrible at Lightroom and PS post process right now. I need a lot of practice.

[@adedotunajibade]

Thanks!

[@santoshmahalik]

Thanks for sharing.... Please upload similar video with different birds and different background

[@yacovbenbunan9954]

Great vid!!

[@robertcaldararu1757]

Hi there, Where have you find Mandarin Duck in UK? Thabk you!

[@baburh]

Great tutorial! One question: Where is sharpening in your workflow? Is it before the lightroom(camera raw) edit or after?

[@fbimagesphoto]

Thanks Rob but what about sharpening for printing?

[@RobBlight]

I haven't done much printing so I'm not really in a good position to say. I'd imagine it's the same thing except you'd do it on the full resolution file and might have to play with the high pass filter size a bit.

[@somewhatfunny]

Rob Blight when you stopped your video in order to re-record it for purposes of making it more visible on KZbin you lost me. It was no longer clear which actions were done specifically to make it "clearer on KZbin" and which were integral to your tutorial. Clarification would be appreciated since I'd like to try this technique.

[@JoeMaranophotography]

Do you not think its overkill Rob unless the images are going to be blown up big time? Helpful tutorial nonetheless. Thanks!

[@RobBlight]

This technique is more for web so works well on lower resolution images. I don't think it's overkill, but it does add extra work so up to you whether it's worth it.

[@lumenspaul]

hi rob I take it when you put the layers in to groups this was just for the purpose of the video ?

[@RobBlight]

Yes, but you can do the same thing if you want to pump up the effect even more. Usually one is enough for me.

[@paulswilley3737]

Give us more editing videos please

[@SanjayWildlife]

Most people starting their edit will not have such a sharp image! Wish it was more relatable haha.. but good flow!

[@MrJeyjey2707]

..another quick question...when re sizing to 2048..is that ALL images or ones in landscape? ...and a portrait image would be different? Or is it the longer side is always 2048 regardless ? Cheers!

[@DenisAudiodream5]

Link doesn't work!!! What to do?

[@Zeppy007]

Great video as always Rob! I assume you do the noise removal in either lightroom or Noisless CK first and then export to PS right?

[@RobBlight]

Thanks! There are two main types of NR in Lightroom - Colour NR is on by default, but I like to tone it down a bit to reduce colour bleed particularly on noisy images. Luminance NR I tend to avoid but I sometimes add a small amount in very noisy images. And yes I add it in Lightroom before exporting.

[@Zeppy007]

@@RobBlight Thanks for the quick reply!

[@MrJeyjey2707]

Can I just confirm, do you double up on the Pass Through filter every time, or just to see the effect on your video? Cheers

[@sunoysanyal9806]

Hello Rob, whats the name - type of your camera?

[@sunoysanyal9806]

Incredible footage by the way keep it up!

[@RobBlight]

Thanks! My main camera is a Nikon D850. There's a link in the description where you can see what cameras, lenses and other gear I use.

[@SanjayWildlife]

The technique is great, buuuuutt.... Am I the only one that sees this picture being brilliant as the original itself and that all these edits are unnecessary ? True there is noise, and just applying noise reduction in a layer and adding mask and bringing back the original details on the bird will do. But the rest of it ! :D it's like a skinny girl thinking she's fat... Haha this image is superb as it was, should have used another example to make the effects more visible. Half the time I found myself imagining the effects :D

[@aussie8114]

Very clever but WAY too complicated for my stupid brain 🤪

[@bro7269]

Oh man, look at all that noise at 2:1.....it’s disgusting!

[@juhapekkalaine326]

Buy a mirrorless camera with IBIS, you don't need to sharpen.

[@fotostock1]

Nicely explained! I was happy to discover that's more or less what I'm doing, BUT I haven't been pulling back the sharpening slider in RAW before I go into photoshop. Thank you!