Capturing landscape photography images is only half of the process. Mastering the art of editing will help strengthen your images by finding the balance between too much editing and not enough editing of the photograph. This video highlights some common editing mistakes landscape photographers make.
What you do with your images when you get back home from a landscape photography outing is nearly as important as capturing the image to begin with. With so many sliders and options in editing software, it is easy to overprocess an image. Conversely, it is also easy to under-edit the image, leaving it dull and lifeless. In this video, William Patino walks through some common editing mistakes landscape photographers make.
Patino demonstrates editing techniques using a sunset image featuring a high dynamic range. These high-dynamic images are common in landscape photography, and maintaining a natural look is key. He emphasizes not over-recovering an image and using more targeted adjustments instead of global adjustments when processing an image. Patino uses various techniques and options to edit an image, explaining why and how he is doing something at each step.
One of the key takeaways from the video was the element of atmospheric perspective and how it should influence an image's processing. Atmospheric perspective can be used as a tool to gauge where adjustments should take place and how much for things like contrast, brightness, sharpness, and even saturation.
