From the course: Photo Tools Weekly

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts.

Improving a travel photo

Improving a travel photo

From the course: Photo Tools Weekly

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Improving a travel photo

“

- [Chris] How can we make our travel photographs like this come to life? Well let's take a look. Hey, my name is Chris Orwig and welcome to Photo Tools Weekly. In this week's episode we'll take a look at how we can make this image come to life, and we'll start off with the original raw file that appears like this. Here I'll press F to exit out of full screen mode, and I'm in the Develop module inside of Lightroom Classic. Now here I've collapsed some of the other panels just to open up more space for our photograph, so they're still there, I've just closed them, and you can see that in this way. Now a lot of times what happens when we capture exposures like this, this was just before the sun rose, is that because it's dark outside we can underexpose the image, or at least that's what happened to me, and I was pretty excited about it, but then when I open it up inside of Lightroom and we look at the histogram we can…

Contents