I don't even like coffee, I just needed an intro.
So, pretty soon I'm going to be leaving and going to Eynsford
and meeting up with a mate. Eynsford (?)
Eynsford.
And we're gonna see what we can get up there. Apparently there's a massive viaduct
that was voted one on the most beautiful places in Kent not too long ago,
so we're gonna go check out, see if we can get any photos.
I'm gonna take you along with me and then I was thinking maybe I can come back here,
sit down, edit the photos and show you my processing there.
So, let's go!
So I've arrived at Eynsford, we're at the viaduct,
you can see in the background. I have messed up with Kieran,
who's down on the floor up there setting his drone up.
And we are gonna try and get some shots here the best we can do.
We were hoping for a sunset, but I think it's just gonna be overcast... unfortunately.
So I'll get some moody shots instead and I'll show you how we do that.
So, Kieran's got his drone up. How does it look up there, mate?
Got some nice colours in the trees there as well.
So...
Hopefully, yeah we can get some good shots of the viaduct,
hopefully get a train coming past.
Well...
Shit happens, I suppose, but...
I messep up a little bit. I was trying to do a fly-through in the viaduct.
The wind must have moved it slightly
and it crashed into the wall.
So now my drone...
is sort of missing a flight arm, which I'm hoping won't be too expensive.
The gimbal looks like is fine,
so hopefully the gimbal doesn't need to be replaced,
or maybe I'll just take this opportunity to upgrade my drone. So...
No more drone flying today and unfortunately I was only getting the video,
so I don't have any photos to share either.
But there's a castle up the road, so I think we're gonna head up to the castle,
maybe I can get some camera shots of the castle up there.
Well, after that mishap...
I mean, it takes a little bit more than a broken drone to get me down, so...
We get up, we move on and we go to the next location.
The drone itself is gonna go into my little graveyard of broken camera gear.
And then maybe one day I'll get it fixed, I think.
I'll take this as an opportunity to upgrade to the Mavic Pro 2 now,
cause I've been meaning to do it for a while.
So, Kieran and I are now walking up to the castle,
we're walking back to the car and then we're gonna go up to the castle
and we're gonna see what we can get up there as well.
Kieran has kindly said that I can use his drone to get some photos if I'd like,
so I may still be able to do a little bit of an editing tutorial at the end of this as well.
And there are some highland cows here as well. Second video in a row with highland cows. So...
You know, it is a good day.
This one has come over to say hi.
I think he's camera-shy.
So we've just arrived at the castle,
we're gonna take a little trek up there, see what it's like. Hopefully it's a nice-looking castle.
Here in the UK we tend to have pretty good castles anyway, so...
I have pretty high hopes for that.
I'll show you what it's like when we get there.
I think we've just come up on the castle.
This thing here.
We're hoping not because it's very small.
I was hoping something a little bit bigger, a little more interesting.
So we'll see what we can find.
So what I'm gonna do now while Kieran is over there
is just over here.
I've noticed...
there's a lone tree over there.
I've just worked on the telephoto lens
and I'm gonna see what I can get.
And when we go home we'll edit it and see what I can do with it.
So what I'm gonna do for this lone tree shot is I've put my telephoto lens on the camera,
this is an APS-C lens, so it's gonna punch in a little bit more.
I've got my aperture as low it will go on 4.5 and my ISO is down to 80.
It's a little bit dark, a little bit underexposed,
but that's because there is light coming through in the clouds
so I want that to be a good exposure
whereas I know with this camera it's really good with the shadows,
I can bring the detail back up in the shadows,
but if I overexpose a little bit too much I won't be able to bring the highlights back.
And then I've got a nice zoom in it, it looks like there's a nice
gradient of contrast down in the field as well and a lot of colour.
So I'm just gonna take this shot
and then we'll edit it when we get back!
Kieran and I finished at the castle, we got some pretty cool drone footage.
Kieran is kindly going to lend me that footage, so that I can put it in the video and show you.
I got one decent photo of the lone tree,
so we'll go back to the studio and we'll edit that now,
and the next time you'll see me I will be at home.
Studio Ryan here, it's now friday, two days later.
I already tried filming this once but I had some audio issues, so let's try again.
Because of the drone mishap I didn't actually get the images that I was looking for to get
when I was at the viaduct, so instead I have some camera images from around the area as well.
One of the images I really like, two other images not so much, but they are okay.
But I edited them anyway. That's just the way life is in photography,
sometimes you get images that you really like, sometimes you get images that are mediocre
but I don't want this video to get too long, so let's just into Lightroom.
The first image we have here is of an highland cow.
These highland cows are in a field next to the viaduct.
There was not great backdrop as you can see, but
the highland cow itself looks pretty good, nice and sharp.
I don't use presets, so in the basics tab I always do my colour correction
with the histogram on the top here, I usually try to flatten it out
and make it nice and even across the image, so it makes it a little bit easier to edit.
I do a little bit with the temperature,
because usually I shoot at around 5500k.
So I move that up and down so as I need them.
The contrast I put up a little bit, the highlights I put up in this image a little bit,
the shadows, whites and blacks I brought all down slightly, but
I didn't need to do a lot to it, it was already quite well exposed.
And the clarity I brought up a little bit so I could bring out the detail in the hair,
which is quite nice.
Tone curves I always do the same thing, I put a little S curve in it
because, obviously, like I said I made the image flat for the histogram in the basics tab.
So I add the contrast with the tone curve.
I don't really touch the colours unless absolutely necessary
cause I can do all that in Photoshop later.
In the colour tab...
again, I always try to keep the colours quite natural, I don't do a lot with it,
so slightly moving into the left or right.
In the case I actually tried to make the cow more orangey/red
just to make it pop a little bit more, as you can see with the saturation here as well.
And the blues I always tend to bring down a bit, depending on whether they're needed or not.
Like a waterfall shot I'll leave the blues as they are,
but otherwise I like to take them out of the sky.
And then the luminance I played with, again I brought the sky up
because there's not a lot of detail in the sky, so I was trying to blow it out
rather than bring back the detail.
The colour grading I touched on this a little bit,
I usually put blues in the shadows and yellows in the highlights.
This just tends to be what I do.
And then I bring the shadows down a little bit, the luminance and the highlights up
and that sort of gives it a little bit of a pop as you can see there.
When it comes to the detail tab, I do the same thing every time.
I up the sharpening, I bring up the masking. If you hold option and then move it,
you can see that everything that's white is what gets sharpened and everything that's black isn't.
So you get nice even sharper across the image.
And I always bring up the noise reduction to about 30,
I don't know why, that's just what I've always done and it always seems to work.
I don't do anything on the effects.
And then on calibration, this is sort of just playing with it,
so I'll grab a slider and I'll drag it up
to see what colour that does and drag it down, see what kind of that does
and whichever one I prefer I just move the slider slightly towards that direction.
I don't really touch the saturation and the calibration.
When it comes to selective editing, what I've done is use a gradient filter
at the bottom of the image here to draw the eye up to the centre of the image.
And then I've used two radial filters in the middle,
one creating a vignette and the other one is adding more clarity to the cow,
so that makes it pop a little bit more as you can see here.
And then when I'm done in Lightroom, I always bring my images into Photoshop to finish them off.
So here's the image in Photoshop.
I always add a gradient map with dark blues in the shadows
and light oranges in the highlights again and as you can see,
if I toggle that on, it adds a lot more contrast to the image.
The selective colour I use to change the colour of the cow again
to make it a little bit more of what I was seeing at the time, which is a bit more red.
So if I select that on and off you'll see the difference there.
I use a high pass filter to add sharpening.
If you look closely when I turn it off and on
you'll see in the hair that the hair gets a lot more sharp.
And then finally I add an orton effect usually to all of my images.
Again it's very subtle, but if I click on and off you can see what happens there.
So if I group all of these in Photoshop,
I'll show you the before and after Photoshop.
So that's before, that's after.
So I always add more punch into the image in Photoshop.
I'm gonna rush through these next two images because
I basically do very similar things to them, but I'll talk about what I did differently.
But let's try and keep this video a little bit shorter.
So this was the lone tree image I was talking about in the video.
This is the before Lightroom, this is the after Lightroom.
And as I said, I'm looking to make this a proper moody photo.
I can see the clouds in the background, so
I brought the highlights all the way down to bring the clouds out.
And then I actually brought the clarity down in this one to soften the image,
because making it sharp made it a little bit too much.
So with this landscape shot I actually brought the clarity down.
When it comes to the tone curve, exactly the same.
The colours again I didn't play with too much.
I just wanted to make those greens and yellows pop a bit more.
And I brought the luminance of the blue all the way down again
cause I want to bring those moody clouds out.
Colour gradient, I actually did the opposite.
I added some oranges to the shadows and the blues to the highlights,
but that just seemed to work with this image.
Detail again, did exactly the same with the sharpening and noise reduction
and the calibration again, just played with the colours to see what came out.
When it comes to selective editing, I got 3 gradient filters here.
Two from the bottom to darken the bottom and one from the top to darken the clouds
and the one in the clouds I actually used the colour mask
so it's only affecting the colour of the clouds to bring them out
and bring the detail and bring the exposure down in the clouds.
So now jumping into Photoshop. This is the image from Lightroom,
and because I'm not gonna post this on Instagram I've just done a quick clone stamp job
to show you how I would usually do.
So in this first layer, actually,
I covered up the imperfections in the field
and then I added the gradient map again like before,
added the sharpening with a high pass filter like before.
And then I added the orton effect,
which you can see a little bit more in this one if I click on and off.
You show how much punch that goes and how soft it makes it as well.
And then in the last layer I just dodged and burned the clouds a little bit,
just to make them a little bit darker and a little bit moodier.
So that was that image and now I'll show you the before and after.
So that all said, those are the two images that I got.
Unfortunately, like I said, I didn't get the drone images I was planning to
because I reversed my drone into the viaduct and smashed it.
But don't worry, I already have another drone on the way, so...
Drone photography is quite a staple of my style, so
I won't go without a drone
and I still have the drone videos and the drone photography coming up for you.
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