About Thomas Fitzgerald

Thomas is a professional fine art photographer and writer specialising in photography related instructional books as well as travel writing and street photography. 

New Video: Landscape Photo Editing - From start to Finish in Lightroom & Photoshop

New Video: Landscape Photo Editing - From start to Finish in Lightroom & Photoshop

I was recently visiting a somewhat famous waterfall not too far from where I live and of course I took some photos while I was there. We went primarily to enjoy the fresh air and scenery, so it wasn’t a specific photo shoot, but even so I got some interesting images. One worked out particularly well, and I thought my process for editing it would make an interesting video, so here it is!

When I was taking this, I shot it as a little vertical panorama. I did this because ti would give me a little wider angle from where I was standing (as I was in a precarious spot). The other advantage of doing this is that it gives you a little extra resolution. So the first part of the process is merging these into a panorama in Lightroom.

Of course with any relatively famous spot, there were lots of tourists around. In the past, it would have been quite time consuming to properly remove all these with the clone and stamp tool, but with generative fill in Photoshop it only takes a few minutes.

Finally, back in Lightroom I do some additional editing, and turn the photo into a black and white image, and do some additional tweaks. I think there are some useful tips in the video so be sure to check it out!

Below is the finished image!


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