HOW I EDIT MY PHOTOS

alright guys so welcome to this video it's been highly highly requested so here it is how i edit my photos so starting off with what i use that in my photos i always added my photos on here my computer and i use adobe lightroom now i've seen people get super creative and super fancy with photoshop adding things that aren't there taking away things that are there basically my only intention is just edit what's there and optimize what's there and that's why i use lightroom whoever you are i recommend perfecting the basics perfecting the step above

that perfecting the intermediate and keep perfecting your level before you move on to the next one so in order to emulate the sort of editing style that i use it's very important that you do two things number one you have to shoot in a row now you might not know where raw means but basically that holds more data within the photo so it doesn't compress the photo so for example when you take a photo with a jpeg within the camera once you take it the photos compressed and a lot of data is lost because that's

the final product when you shoot raw the photo is uncompressed and the camera hasn't finalized the photo it's less all the data there for you but you can go and lightroom and photoshop etc and you can optimize now leave on screen somewhere right now how you set that up on sony eight seven more to that i'm using right now for canon and whatnot I'm sorry unfortunately I don't know panasonic gh4 stuff like that i don't really know how to set that up for sony a7 it'll be somewhere on the screen right now now this photo

is mainly intended for people who take their photography a bit more seriously and are shooting with a mirrorless or a DSLR or even some point and shoot cameras computer all nowadays if you're editing your photos on your iPhone or something I will come out with a video for that in a bit I used to do that months don't worry about it but if you have a nice camera if you have the ability to use your computer and use Lightroom of software like that then this is for you the second most important thing you need to

do when taking your photo before you can jump onto your computer is ett are exposed to the right I like to go for quite a contrast a look I like deep shadows deep blacks so in order for that I need to overexpose now when you get a bit more advanced you can actually look at your histogram and you know see as the exposure is moving to the right and you can see when it's starting to get washed out etc but for now don't really worry about that just as the photo looks somewhat washed out if

it looks a bit overexposed if you want to emulate my look that's what you're going to need to do to remember that shoot in raw and overexpose let's jump onto the computer so guys excuse meh messy background but we have more photos here one of my friend read one just random street shot one client work and then another one of my friend so we're going to go ahead and open up Lightroom now one of the mistakes I used to do is I'd import the photos into iphoto now I don't know about your version but my

version that actually converts the raw into jpeg which should know what you want so imported straight into iPhoto right here as you can see there's a couple photos so let's open this up hit import down here and I actually have my source editorial folder click all of those hit import and we'll start off with this piece of classwork go ahead hit develop know the first thing I do is I go all the way down and I apply my preset now what that does is it makes my life a bit easier and it also has a

bit more continuity to my photos as i said i have my own style and it taken me a little bit of time to develop and i'm sure will always change and involve where you should find your own style and then try and keep some continuity to your photos so i have my preset set up here now this is temperature this is sean in the day now if you want to get technical with this this is the kelvin so this is shot in day which is roughly 50 200 Kelvin so I think I'll go ahead and

bring this up to 5 250 just to make him a bit more just to make a skin a bit more natural now you can see his wave overexposed so we'll go ahead and bring this exposure down and now you can start to see the details coming back in so I think we'll go for negative 70 I'm happy with the contrast the highlights will go ahead and bring down all the way so you can see his drum / sponge to stand out more his eyes etc I'm happy with the rest of the exposure let me just

show you this is what 0 clarity would look like and then this is what 23 clarity looks like i like more clearer sharper image and very contrasting as i said i'll keep the vibrance where it is but this is what sort of effects i would have saturation i already have it up to 16 now this i play around with sometimes if you look at his skin tone it's moving more towards the yellow right now if i want to make it a bit more orangie i can go go ahead and play with this I'm happy where

it's at right now I might actually just change it to 0 make it a bit more natural saturation once again I'm happy with that or I might I want to make a look more natural so I'm going to go ahead and bring that down to 0 with my certain preset this things are naturally more saturated different colors and that's something I've played around with a bit luminance I like the fact that his face is exposed brightly but I'm just going to go ahead and slide this down just to see what sort of effective to have

I think we'll go ahead and move that down to rather than plus 10 will move that down to negative 5 so scroll down I'm happy with the rest of that now even in broad daylight I still like to add a bit of noise reduction so I'll make that 20 I also smooth out ask in a bit then we'll move down and last thing I want to do is I want to go ahead and add some green I like the sort of grainy affect the last thing we'll do is we'll move down to grain and we'll

add some grain so if we come close to his face you can see as the clarity is adding a bit of green around him but I want to go ahead and give it an old vintage II look so what I'll go ahead and add 40 grain maybe even make this 50 and I'm pretty happy with that so i can hit Y and you can see the side back side here super super cool I'm really happy with that let's move on to the next one so the next photos of my friends Filippo what we're going to

go ahead and do is I don't like the bottom houses legs so we are going to crop that in and then auto angle just to make photos straight much much better go ahead add the email G creates preset now let's come in on this you can see that the whites and the highlights are super super exposed so we'll go ahead and bring the highlights all the way down power shooting in raw you have the ability to do that but it's a bit under exposed to my liking there so we'll bring that down I think it's

a bit too blue so I want to go ahead and let me make that 5800 Kelvin now you can see once again that's what it's like with zero clarity I like unfair a bit of clarity to us we'll make that 25 now you can see there's a lot of overexposure on its face and the neck especially so I'm going to go ahead and do the luminance down but in terms of hue and saturation of happy with that so noise reduction will go ahead and clean up to 20 and then add a bit of grain to

that as well and yep here's the side by side super super happy with that now I think the last example I'll show you is read this is a night example so it's a bit harder to work with so we're going to apply the humanity creates presets and one thing you'll notice immediately is that the white balance is just shockingly poor then we'll go ahead and we'll make that bit darker so bring that to 2,800 probably will make that two thousand seven hundred now one thing you'll notice about this photo it looks like you just got

punched so let's go ahead and fix that will bring the contrast down negative 50 you can see one side of his face is still pretty dark so we'll bring up blacks or the shadows I mean once again there's this really grungy look to the photo that I'm not actually going for so we'll bring the clarity bounces zero on this one and now it's looking a lot more natural now this is short on a lens that I don't normally use the Sigma's 30 millimeter f 1.4 so we are going to enable profile Corrections and remove chromatic

aberrations just to make sure that's perfectly centered I'm going to come here and auto angle vero play with the tone curve so not going to play with that hsl i do want to bring out face a bit more i can now a little luminous waited but if i want them to look a bit more yellow I could bring that way or the hard to change the hue and it could look a bit more orange I can bring it that way right now it's a plus 10 I think I'll bring it down to zero now i'm

liking the exposure on its face but I don't like everything around here so what we're going to go ahead and do is add a vignette and that just puts all the focus on Reed it's nice so I'm going to bring the luminance to 30 and then lastly I'm going to see if I want any grain on this will put a 40 grain and no I think on this photo I'm not really feeling it so here is the before and after [Music] the last thing we're going to do is we're going to select the three photos

we're going to hit export export and put in a subfolder tutorial edit and it will go ha export those it will take a bit longer than normally would once again that's because it's raw rather than jpg so now that it's done we can go ahead tutorial edit and actually edit this before so here are the unique ones you see open that up really happy so guys I really hope you enjoyed this video now this is for anyone who wants to take their photography have been more serious if you're just shooting with an iphone and you're

shooting with a point and shoot like this you can still use Lightroom and it's probably better than most photo editing apps it's just not really necessary this is for someone shooting with a mirrorless or a DSLR and the shooting in raw and I'm actually going to be creating and refining some more presets and probably late 2017 I'll put them up on sale a pack of 5 a pack of 10 right now I have one main go-to and then some other ones which I haven't created myself so I'll leave my own personal one in the description

completely free if you wanna you can go ahead and download it if you want to know how to add it to your Lightroom just look it up on youtube I really do hope you've enjoyed this video and I hope you found some use from it it's so cool to see all the tons of photographers and videographers that are sprouting up at such a young age nowadays and all it is is practice practice practice whether that be taking the photos or editing them so if you enjoyed this video please leave a like if you guys want

to see one on how i edit my videos that's actually been really highly requested more so than this probably but if you want to see that leave it in the description i'll see you guys on the next one