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ALL IMAGES BY SCOTT KELBY

Above: You can see the light from the flash spilling onto the ground.

Above: Here’s the photo after lowering the Exposure amount and painting over the ground.

When it gets close to her boots, turn on Auto Mask, so it doesn’t darken them (unless you

want that). If you did darken them, I would hit the New button, then don’t lower the

Exposure quite as much, and then paint over just her boots separately.

step thirteen: By the way, dodg-

ing and burning isn’t just for cathedrals

and it isn’t just for travel and landscape

photos. I routinely use it for portrait

work, and here’s a typical example:

when you’re lighting an outdoor por-

trait and the flash not only lights your

subject, but spills over onto the ground

and lights that, as well (as seen here,

which looks lame because our goal is

to light the subject’s face the brightest,

and then have fall-off so the light gets

darker and darker as it moves down

your subject until it fades away. In short,

it shouldn’t make it to the ground).

step fourteen: When this hap-

pens, here’s a quick fix: get the Ad-

justment Brush, lower the Exposure

amount, and paint over the ground until

you don’t see the flash spilling onto it,

which gives you a much more profes-

sional look.

tip: moving your

adjustment

In Lightroom CC, you can now drag a

pin to move it to a new location once

you’ve copied-and-pasted the Adjust-

ment Brush edit onto other photos, like

similar ones from the same shoot. If you

didn’t use a tripod, chances are either

you or your subject moved a tiny bit

from shot to shot. Now you can drag

the adjustment a tiny bit, too! To return

to the way clicking-and-dragging on a

pin used to work (when you dragged

over the pin, it moved all the adjust-

ment sliders in tandem instead), just

press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key,

then click directly on the pin and drag

left or right. ■