- All right guys, so in this video,
I wanna show you my workflow
on taking photos with my iPhone
and then retouching them on my desktop on my Lightroom.
Not Lightroom Classic, but Lightroom.
So let's get started.
(introductory music playing)
All right, first, I wanna show you my workflow
of how I actually take the photo.
So what I do is I go to Lightroom mobile
and very important: I use the professional mode.
So of course,
I'm an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber.
And so I have that option where when I take a photo,
it goes automatically,
because I'm logged into my Lightroom account.
But I wanna shoot them raw.
That's very important.
You see up here, it says DNG.
You wanna make sure that's not-
very, very important that it's not on JPEG,
but on DNG up here.
Also, then once you've done that,
then it's just like any camera.
You're shooting raw,
so you can decide the white balance.
So I can go here to white balance
and I can take like daylight,
and then I can go to my-
so the first thing that I do is
I go to the lowest ISO possible.
You see ISO, which is 40 in this case,
because the sensor is so small with an iPhone,
you really wanna get the best possible, possible,
you know, details.
And for that, you have to have the lowest ISO.
Then I just play around because it's a fixed aperture.
There's nothing you can do about that.
So I just look at the speed
and I take whatever speed I want
until I get a good exposure.
And then I always put the self timer on.
You see it says two seconds.
So for that, you go up there
and you go to timer and you put two seconds.
Why? Because I don't wanna touch my camera
when I take a shot.
It makes sharper photos.
And I click. So it goes one, two, boom.
(camera clicking)
And it takes the shot.
And here's the shot:
we're in Paris shooting the Eiffel Tower.
And then once you're back in Lightroom,
you can see here on the left side, you have a menu
and you have all the photos by date, okay?
And then, so what I did is I am,
for example, if I go here,
I can take a photo like this one and I can say,
oh, I can say right click and add one photo to...
I made what we call a target album.
So I made an album here in Lightroom
and this album has "Set Interior Sony Versus iPhone",
that was the name of the album,
as the target album.
So you do that,
and then you can go through all your photos.
So I went through all my photos
and so you got all my Lightroom photos there.
Every time I take a photo it's there
and I can press T
and it puts it into the album.
Then I go to the album and I can start my retouching.
So I'll show you on this one.
Now the workflow is very similar to Lightroom Classic.
You can do it with your fingers on your phone
or you can do it on your desktop.
I like to do it on the desktop on a big screen.
And you know,
and the name of the game is always the lowest ISO possible.
So if I press, I can see this was shot at ISO 40.
Check this out, this was a very dark photo.
I shot it with my iPhone 12.
ISO 40, you know, at one 80th of a second.
So let's see.
It should be-
I mean, can you imagine doing that with your phone?
It's really crazy.
So when it comes to phone photography,
I don't do the opener shadow 100% and bring it up...
I don't do as much because it's not,
the raw files are not as powerful
than with my Sony camera or my Fuji.
So usually I open the shadows about midways
and I crush the highlights midways.
But I still hold on the option key on my keyboard
to crush the blacks, okay?
That's about that.
And then I do something to crush the whites,
which is like that.
And then on this one,
I'm just gonna boost a bit the exposure
and because it was raw,
I can go here and I can choose different white balance.
I can go to daylight,
I can go to cloudy,
I can go to shade.
See but shade is making it darker.
So daylight I think is the best.
I'm just gonna add a bit of magenta
because I'm a magenta addict.
I'm seeing somebody about that.
Hope, you know, I can resolve it,
but for now I add magenta everywhere.
Maybe add a bit.
What I don't want is
I don't want the blue to turn into gray.
So that's why I go for daylight
and I add a bit of magenta.
I'm not gonna touch vibrance and saturation
because it's good.
And you can see here
the before and after.
Before and after.
And let's zoom in.
And it's actually pretty, it's a bit noisy.
So, okay.
When it comes to noise, let's go to the noise detail.
And usually what I do on this one is,
I'm going to...
Well, I'm already at 10 noise reduction.
So I might go to like 15,
and I'm gonna open this detail here
and I'm gonna put the mask in.
That is very important.
If you hold on the option key and you do the masking,
you can see anything which is black
is not gonna get sharpened.
I don't want any sharpening on the sky.
So I'm gonna mask a lot.
Yeah, something like that.
Okay, so masking, and then I can boost the sharpening.
Usually what I do is I take number 100.
Now with the iPhone I do a bit less,
I think like 80.
I minus out my noise reduction, so that would be like 65,
and I go like at 65 with sharpening.
And now I've got a pretty sharp photo,
and I could actually make a print with this.
Okay, let me show you another example.
This is my good friend Natalie.
We were at Des Valley.
It's an overexposed photo.
Let's look at the settings.
I shot this...
I think it was a JPEG.
Nope, DNG. I did shoot it raw, but it's a 32 ISO.
So that's good, but it's a little too overexposed.
So that's fine.
Let's see what we can do here
with the beautiful Lightroom.
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All right, so let's get back here.
Oh by the way:
the true way I retouch my photography is using presets.
So I go here,
I got all my natural everyday presets
and this was a golden hour shot.
So I would use one of these preset
and just click and then do some adjustments.
And you can get most of my free presets
down under this video.
You can get my toolbox.
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It's gonna change the way you retouch your photo.
All right, but I'm not gonna use a preset
since you're watching this.
I'm gonna start it from scratch.
So this is really an over-exposed photo.
So again, because it's an iPhone photo,
I'm just gonna open the shadows,
bring in the highlights, like that.
I'm gonna crush my blacks and not move my whites.
Now the sky, I'm gonna make it really darker.
And because it's a raw file,
I still have some details in the sky.
So let's use them even more using the grading tool.
The grading tool, I'm gonna lower the exposure
and I'm gonna add some blue
and I'm gonna make a first path like that.
Yes.
And I'm gonna make a second one with the same value.
So two paths:
one for the very top, one for the bottom,
maybe I'm gonna make another one here
just to sort of close the photo.
On this one,
I am going to boost a little bit the vibrance
because it's really missing some vibrance.
And I'm gonna go to the white balance
and maybe on this one,
I wanna go to...
Hmm, let's see, shade?
Yeah, shade's pretty cool.
And a bit of magenta.
Yes. Yes.
Let's see where we are:
before, after.
Quite some change.
Let's add some contrast to it.
And...
I say it's pretty cool for an iPhone, isn't it?
I'm gonna make it even darker, boost the whites.
I'm just playing around, you know?
One thing I love to do when I do phone photography
is taking photos of like daylight
and turning them into like crazy black and whites.
So same thing.
The way I do it is I use my presets.
So I have this really crazy black and white preset.
Check it out. I just go through like this.
Wait for it: bam, bam, bam.
Actually on this one, I'm gonna use my preset.
Boom.
Once you use a preset...
and again, this one, actually, this one's included.
You can get it down below.
Once I get the preset,
I can just go here in a gradient
and I can adapt my gradients.
Voila.
So because I got a gradient for the sky,
it's already in there.
Oops. No.
And voila.
And you can adjust a little bit, of course.
I can lower the exposure.
I'm gonna crush the blacks.
But voila.
And that took two seconds.
Check it out: before, after.
So if you're not using Lightroom
to retouch your Lightroom mobile iPhone or Android photo,
you're missing out.
Check it out, get my free preset
and I'll see you in another video.
Mesdames et messieurs, au revoir.