Every image requires its own tailor-
made treatment, but there are a few
general edits you can apply to most, if not
all, of the landscapes you shoot. The subject
matter and camera settings you typically use
for landscapes make some edits essential: this
guide covers the key ones you need to make.
One such important edit is lens correction.
To some extent, every lens you use has flaws.
With landscapes, these flaws can be more
noticeable, because we often shoot with
wide-angles, and these tend to display greater
fringing and barrel distortion. Luckily, lens
issues are easily improved in Lightroom or
Camera Raw, using the extensive database of
lens profiles to automatically fix the problem.
We also tend to shoot landscapes with
a narrow aperture – and having more of
the scene in focus increases the chances of
recording noticeable flaws. Any dust or marks
on the sensor are more obvious, especially if
they appear in otherwise detail-free areas,
like a sky. Again, these are easy to fix – but it’s
better to have a clean sensor in the first place.
Another eternal problem with landscapes
is the question of how to balance land and sky.
You can use a combination of tonal tools to pull
detail out of the shadows and rescue it in the
highlights, resulting in a more balanced, more
detail-rich landscape.
James Paterson helps you get to grips with the
essential tools in Lightroom and Photoshop that
you’ll want to use on almost every landscape shotPERFECT YOUR LANDSCAPE
EDITING WORKFLOW
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