El Capitan and the Merced River after an autumn snowstorm, Yosemite. In the excerpt from Outdoor Photographer magazine I take readers step-by-step through processing this high-contrast image in Lightroom.
It’s not often that Outdoor Photographer magazine excerpts an ebook, so I was pleased when they asked to run an excerpt from my Landscapes in Lightroom 5 ebook in their December issue. Although printed copies of the magazine won’t be available until mid-November, you can already find the online version here.
The excerpt is from the fourth example in the book, showing step-by-step how I processed this high-contrast image of El Capitan in Lightroom. Due to space constraints they couldn’t run all the screen shots and illustrations from the book, but I think they did a great job of including the most essential ones.
If you don’t have the ebook yet, the Outdoor Photographer excerpt gives a good taste of what you’ll find, although of course the ebook has much more: five more step-by-step examples, in-depth discussions of the tools and workflow in Lightroom’s Develop Module, eight accompanying video tutorials (including one about using the Graduated Filter tool that goes with the excerpted chapter), and links to download the original Raw files for hands-on learning as you follow along with the examples.
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And to everyone who has already purchased the ebook, thank you so much! I really appreciate your support, and all the kind words many of you have sent to me about the book.
— Michael Frye
Landscapes in Lightroom 5: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide
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As an owner of the e-book I want to say it is an excellent tool especially because it relates using Lightroom in the context of landscape photography. So many books don’t seem to care about landscape photos. Also, having the original raw files to work with is really fantastic because you can see the image develop on your monitor while following the steps in the book. You can relate exactly to what is said in the book.
This book is a terrific tool for the landscape photographer. And no, I’m not a paid spokesman and I don’t know Michael other than by this blog. 🙂
Thank you Michael for the help this book has provided me.
Thanks so much John! I’m glad you like the ebook, and, more importantly, have found it helpful to your own photography.
I’m not a Lightroom user, but if it is 1/2 as good as your Digital Landscape Photography book, my well thumbed version, then there will be some inspired Outdoor Photography readers.
Thanks very much Peter. For what it’s worth, everything I demonstrate in the ebook can also be done in Adobe Camera Raw. 🙂