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Editing and post work on a tropical sunset image

Editing and post work on a tropical sunset image

From the course: Landscape Photography: Tropical Scenes

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Editing and post work on a tropical sunset image

- Now on this seascape, I'm going to take you through my entire workflow, but before I do that, I want to compare just a couple of images. This is the one I want to work on, the golden light hitting that side of that rock wall is just beautiful. This was three minutes later, what a dramatic difference. I'm going to go ahead and put those images side by side, we'll go lights out, which is L for lights, hit it twice, it goes black. The image on the left is obviously got that magic golden light, the image on the right, it's completely gone, and I really want to stress the importance of shooting through the entire process, of either sunrise or, in this case, sunset, and this is why, we don't want to miss that magic moment. I'd also like to show you an exposure of 143 seconds, which is kind of crazy, but what it does is really cool. Okay, so I'm going to show you that you get this milky, surreal look with the ocean, and it can be highly effective. In this example, especially because the…

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