Hi! Today I’m going to show you how to edit RAW files on your iPad, iPhone or Android
device in a video that doesn't quite go according to plan.
Hi I’m Adam and welcome to First Man Photography, the channel that will help you take your photography
to the next level. In the video today, we’re going to be using my Lightroom and Lightroom
Mobile. If you haven't tried that yet, head down to the description below, I’ll put
a link up for you to get a free trial. It really is a bit of software worth using. RAW
files are amazing things and they are, pretty much, our digital negative. They contain all
the information captured by the sensor of your camera and that means they are quite
large files. They’re not natural playmates with mobile devices like the iPad, iPhone
and Android device but, thankfully, Adobe have come up with a really good way of using
Lightroom and Lightroom Mobile to get round this. I think the best way to deal with this
is just to show you and let's get into it. So here we are and we go straight into Lightroom.
Now all you need to do is import your images as you would normally and then you’re going
to create a collection and drag those images into that collection. I’ve already done
that here for these two images, put them into a collection named ‘mobile tutorial’ because
that’s what this it. Then you just need to, once they're in there, you just click
the little button here to sync them with Lightroom Mobile. It then starts to upload them to Adobe
server and that is pretty much it then to get them onto your mobile device. So once
you’ve done that, you canned into your iPad, your iPhone, your Android device, in this
case, I’m using the iPad because I like the big screen. Head into the Lightroom Mobile
app and then just go to the collection that you were using. In this case, my mobile tutorial
collection. So into the image and then he can just go through as you normally would
and edit the photos. So bring up the Edit Tools, just hit Edit and then you can scroll
through these settings to make your adjustments. So I want to add some contrast to this image.
It’s just a case of scrolling through, sliding the slider, as you would in Lightroom itself.
Then start going through your edit. So highlights, bring them down a little bit, shadows bring
them up for a bit more detail in the foreground, whites need a little bit more I think, production
on the blacks a little bit more contrast. Then I’m going to add a little bit of vibrance
and saturation and I think that’s starting to look like pretty decent image. Now, this
then syncs back to Lightroom so you can then export that RAW file into a high quality JPEG
or TIFF file. Or you can just export a JPEG file directly from the iPad and uploaded from
there, share it, show clients. You can do it all on the fly. It’s really good, really
useful to be able to go through that. It also means that you can then head out and about
and do your editing on the go and somewhere a bit more interesting than your office might
be. Places like a field…a stream…a stream? You’d have to be stupid to go in a stream…..
So I’ve just had an absolute nightmare. I’m filming in this little stream. Hopefully,
you would have seen the shot by now but I’ve just dropped my camera and the road video
mike into the stream. I juggled it for minute and it just went in. Let’s have a little
look at the camera and see what damage has been caused. So there you can see, 35mm lens
Sigma, hopefully that works. Road video mike pro with a noise wind protector on. You can
see, nice and wet. It went in pretty good. You can probably see that. Nice and wet all
the way round. I had the caps open on the side. That looks like it's got wet. This is
not weather sealed lens. The reason that happened is because I didn't properly screw down the
road video mike and as I started to drop it, that slipped off, I panicked and simply dropped
it in the water. Hopefully, it’ll dry out on the radiator when I get home but I really
hope the shot is worth it. I think I have, actually, managed to kill the camera. I think
I also have got the shot though. It was going okay. It started filming, I tried to make
a little adjustment on the focus and then it's gone pretty crazy and it’s just taking
loads of images even though I’m not pressing anything. I’ll show you that now. The camera’s
set up on the tripod and switch it on and it just goes crazy. I don’t know what's
going on there. I’m not pressing anything and it's coming up with a screen that, literally,
I’ve never seen before on this camera saying that. So frustrating. I’ve had a few minutes
to dwell on what’s just happened now. I simply cannot believe I did that. I’m not
a clumsy person. I’ve never, ever done anything like that before. Funnily enough, it comes
just a couple of days after a friend of mine was probably taking too much of a risk and
fully got washed into the sea. So I don’t know what that’s all about. A jinx? I don’t
know. I really hope the camera still works. Apart from anything, I just don’t have the
time to sort out some sort insurance claim or getting another one. It’s new territory
for me. Making some sacrifices just to get, what was literally, a 10 second shot within
the tutorial. I went to the extra length and the video has turned into something pretty
different I think now. Hopefully, you got some enjoyment out of it. Leave a comment
down below, let me know if you've ever suffered any kind of calamity like this yourself before.
I really want to know because… if you’re wondering what that is, it’s off a cricket
pitch…. I really want to read your comments so I can start to feel better about myself,
that I’m not the only one that does stupid stuff like this.
I, literally, cannot believe I did that. The camera is now completely bricked. I think
the lens still works. I haven’t tried it on another camera yet. It did get totally
submerged. The camera doesn’t actually look that wet. I managed to dry it out quite well
but it's doing what it did when I was down in the stream and shooting all those shots
over and over again. I’m lost for words. So Lightroom Mobile really is brilliant. It’s
an excellent service from Lightroom. It just let’s you have a bit more fun getting out
and about and, a bit like I did, editing your photos on the go and then they’re all back
on your computer when you get back home. A really nice little set up and I use it quite
a lot. Okay, so i hope you enjoyed that video. Please give it the thumbs up. Subscribe to
the YouTube channel as well, if you haven't done so already. There’s another vlog coming
out next week and I’ll see you on another video very soon.
I’m Adam. This is First Man Photography.........
Out!!!!!