LIGHTROOM - TOP TIPS AND TRICKS IN EDITING BIRD PHOTOS. Get great results fast!
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Join me in a start to finish edit of a bird photo in Lightroom. I'll show you a basic edit, as well as a more artistic one. Lightroom is a great resource for editing wildlife photos, and I'll show you my top tips and tricks to get the best out of your bird and wildlife photos.
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Simon, I am a stubborn old man, I don't listen to anybody. I love taking pictures of birds so I watched a few of your videos. I have been spending my time watching all of your videos. I have learned something from every one of them. I like your style of presentation. It's right to the point, relevant, and professional. Until this video, I was barely using a fraction of what the program had to offer. I look forward to following your work.
Wonderful
This dude is legit making the best photography content on youtube.
Simon, I cannot get enough of your videos.
This is exceptionally helpful: Your methodical progression through the editing stages, and attention to detail (how to limit a radial mask just to the perch, enrich the brown tones, bring varieties of light to the background) is unlike anything I’ve seen elsewhere from more high-profile KZheadrs - and very welcome. Thank you many times over, and I look forward to what you do next.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks Eric!
This is the most detailed video of using lightroom to edit bird photos that I have seen. It is really great. It not only explains the skills of using lightroom, but more importantly, it is a processing idea.Thank you for your videos!
I've watched several other Lightroom tutorials and have done some rudimentary processing as I'm just beginning in photography. This video was easily the most helpful. The keyboard and mouse shortcuts were especially helpful. Your style of teaching resonates perfectly with me so I'm really thankful I've found this channel. Thank you for the awesome content and taking your time to help so much.
Really can't thank you enough for these tips and many others you've offered in previous videos. Very good, honest help, and well presented. Well done.
Glad to help!
All of the tips are helpful! As a newer photographer all of the learning that is involved can be overwhelming. Thank you for your videos!
brilliant as usual
I don't know how I just found your channel a few weeks ago, but I'm sure glad I did. This video, and many from the past year have been so wildly informative. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
The last tip about compression on Facebook is quite helpful. Thank you for throwing that into the video.
This has been so helpful. Great tips for newbies.
Super helpful and to the point tutorial! Thank you so much for all the amazing tips. I've only just started getting into wildlife photography and your videos have been an invaluable resource to understanding everything photography😅 ❤
I followed your guide with one of my bird photos and was blown away by the results! Thanks so much for the excellent editing guide!
Thanks Simon for sharing your way of adjusting different parts of the subject. I am new to lightroom classic and learn something everytime I watch your videos.
Thank you!
You have once again presented a video that is top quality, easy to understand, and in depth on the many ways to make a photo better. I now have a better understanding of why my photos look great at the end, but when posted on Facebook they are so much noise. Thank you for your presentation.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow - a lot of adverts! but really clear. I thought I knew Lightroom, but this has very usefully filled in some gaps.
Excellent tips. The magenta correction is particularly useful I think. Didn't occur to me to use the temp slider - I usually adjust the tint, or use a local brush with a mix of green and desaturating, but the results are not always what I want. This is simple and it does work, at least on brown! Thanks Simon!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Simon. Really good explanation 👍
it's so interesting seeing other photographers edit their photos and how that plays into their styles and tastes! I would have edited in a different way to you and probably would have come out with a very different final image. Thanks for sharing your process!
This is very helpful as I am still getting my head round to my recently acquired Lightroom 5. What a brilliant tool, even if the masking features are somewhat more basic than those mentioned here, a lot of this advice is relevant.
This is what I was looking for. There are so many videos on KZhead about editing with LR, but none of them gave me this much help. Thank you man, you are a real G!
You're very welcome!
Thank you for taking the time to show us in Lightroom. Very much appreciated. I learned how to use some of the tools that were frustrating me
Thanks, Simon. I use On1Raw, but will use your techniques in my bird photos. I shoot a lot of raptors because they frequently visit my backyard. Best, John
That was amazing Simon! I was so happy to watch this! I take very clear pics of birds for the most part....I just needed to know what is necessary when a shot does not get me what I want! I have learned so much from your videos!!! Also I can go into shots that needed editing I didn't know how to do!! So glad I subscribed to your channel!!!
As a mostly beginner of using Photoshop, this is extremely helpful! I like that I can easily follow along while editing my own photos in hopes that it will become memorized. Thank you for the video!
Thanks so much! I looked at the masks when Adobe first added them to LR but I had no idea how flexible they were.
Wow! That was by far the most compressive tutorial on post-processing of birds but done simply. Thanks so much for sharing this! 👌🙏🏻
Welcome!
Excellent, thank you. The inverted subject is a God send for blurring the background just a little, and the file size for Instagram will definitely help too. Thanks again.
Thanks you so much for this video! I have Lightroom since yesterday and I managed to learn a lot by watching this video! Besides this video I absolutely love your other video's aswell!
Superbly informative and clear. Thank you 🙏
I am new to bird photography and light room editing. Recently found your channel and can’t thank you enough for your systematic and detailed explanations and demonstration.
Awesome, thank you!
Excellent advice. Thank you for being so generous! 😊
Lots of neat tips. I'm very glad I watched it. The other day I was in a restaurant and noticed an advertisement where they used desaturation to most but not all of the image to draw your eye to what was not desaturated. There is also the artistic trick of making the image black and white except the subject which is in full color. I had the thought that I'm going to try desaturating the background when I edit my next photograph. I'm thinking that slightly desaturating the background will make it less obvious so the viewer won't be conscious of the manipulation giving an even stronger effect. I also usually "blur" the background by moving the texture, clarity, and sharpening sliders (for the background mask) to the left.
i'm a person who really is a novice at LR and you have just help me a whole bunch easy to under stand and very helpful cheers from australia
Thanks this is really nice tips. I learned a lot of new stuff, and as returning to photography, got reminded of some too, like vignetting.
thank you so much for your work !
My pleasure!
I love your videos! You explain things nice and clearly and at a speed that I can keep up with which is much appreciated. I don't use Lightroom but I am sure I can use some of these tips in the programme that I do use. I already do use the rule of thirds at least!
Glad you like them!
Very clear presentation thanks i appreciate your time
Thank you so much for sharing your insights on post processing. It is so interesting yet simple. A few more tutorials focusing on Bird Photography noise removal and sharpening in the post production would be highly appreciated, having said this it is always best to get these right in camera!
You are so welcome!
Superb editing tutorial Simon! I always learn so much from you Couple comments: 1) Current max export sizes are 1350x1080 (5x4post) & 1920x1080 (16x9stories) for Instagram. Long edge being 1350 &1920 respectively. 2) Not sure if you had the luminance mask update at the time, but instead of brushing, you can save all that time by using the luminance mask. Then subtract the subject(invert) for a perfect gradient :)
GREAT INFO, Simon!!! I have learned so much... I hope you continue to create this amazing content.. Thanks very much!!
Excellent tutorial Simon. Thank you. Can’t thank you enough for taking the time to make these. They are extremely helpful. And you have a knack to make it simple for us to consume. Thanks.
Glad you like them! Thanks!
Awesome work. Thanks for all the tips. Keep doing this. a lot people will appreciate Thanks again
Oh this was absolutely helpful. Thank you so much for being transparent
So much information in such a small amount of time. I did not know that you could do so much in LR other than adjusting sliders. Going to apply this knowledge after my next trip. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Vibrance adds saturation only to the unsaturated colours in the picture. So you can even out the saturation between colours a bit. While saturation adds it to all the colours but the difference between colours stays the same.
Simon: thank you VERY much for this comprehensive and exhaustive explanation on how you proceed to edit bird photos. I use LR a lot and this is the first time I see tools that I didn't know what their use was. I will keep this tutorial in my favorites because I need to see it more than once to fully understand your approach.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video once again. Thank you Simon.
Wow! Thanks so much. I have watched literally hundreds of videos on processing and your explanation and detail has blown me away. Can’t wait to watch the next video. Cheers from Bristol, England.
Glad it helped Cary!
That was more than a simple tips, that was a profesional tips, thank u so much.
Glad it was helpful!
That was great. Will be watching this again. Really Great. Thank You.
Perfect tutorial for my mood!
I love your videos, thanks for sharing tips and tricks... I've been taking bird photos since 2020 and it's a whole journey, I improve each time I go out and this tricks have pointed out mistakes I was doing or things I needed to do and I wasn't doing. Thank you very much for taking the time to do real high quality content.
You are so welcome!
OMG, I just commented to an other video of you saying it is the most useful video I've seen, but this one exceeds even that one (especially since I'm a birder). That was unbelievable, I look lightroom and my pictures with a whole new way from now on... especially that gradiant effect, but I never knew the masking option at the sharpening section, or some of the masking, it was an unbelievably useful video, by far the best I've seen in the topic. Thanks!
I have more than 1000 species recorded here in Brazil, I used the 7D Mark II a lot, and the 100x400 II lens set perfect for birds.
Cool!
Great tutorial and tips, examples. I agree with keeping my bird shots a bit more normal than playing too much in Lr. I find the challenge of getting it right out in the field as much as possible.
Glad it was helpful!
This is so helpful, thank you so much for doing this type of videos. Very clear, straight to the point, just perfect.
de rien! No problem!
Boy! 3 odd little tricks that I didn't know and I've been using Lightroom for several years!!!! MANY THANK!!!!
Welcome!
Simon, thank you for a very well paced and succinct tutorial. I picked two excellent selection adjustment tips while masking 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Great video and helpful instructions 😊
The new LR masks are very powerful. The way you used them for local adjustments and to create directional lighting was new to me and something I’d like to try in some of my images. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and artistic vision.
You’re welcome Alex!
I really liked the video. I always find it interesting to see Lightroom workflows that others use. The masking tool is a nice improvement to Lightroom and you have given me a few new ideas to play with. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
This is an extremely helpful video for where I am now in post-processing. The information, example used and pace of the video is a perfect learning tool. I have saved it and will be referring to it often. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Your videos are crystal clear, incredibly helpful and a source of inspiration to always to better! Thank you, Bart
I appreciate that!
I have learnt so much from your video. I liked how you showed the whole process, with some great tips. I will certainly be using them to improve my images.
You are so welcome!
Best Lightroom tutorial so far I found on KZhead! Thank you
Wow, thanks!
Oh MY. So very helpful! Never realized how much I DON'T KNOW ... your tutorials are making my progress so much easier and faster! Thanks my friend! With love from Atlanta. (( EXCELLENT tips!! ))
I'm so glad!
Excellent video with great tips. Thanks so much!😊
This video was extremely informative. Thanks!
Love your videos! I use Lightroom and this will help my photography. Thanks Simon for more great tips!
Happy to help!
Thank you very much for taking time in creating all these wonderful and enlightening videos. I’m applying all your tips and tricks and it helped me a lot. I’m a beginner into birds photography and I have come to know that apart from the gear and the photography techniques, it is equally important to be knowledgeable in post processing techniques to make the birds picture look awesome. I would really appreciate it if you could kindly show your complete workflow of post processing of birds photography in Lightroom CC (from importing to exporting). It would really help all the beginners like myself. Thank you!
I’ll look into that. Thanks for the suggestions!
Thanks, this is the first of your videos I’ve watched. It won’t be the last! You explain the new masking tools in Lightroom very, very well. And, the shortcuts and shortcut keys. I’m going to go find more of your videos, right now. Thanks again.
Thanks Rick. Appreciate it!
Thx Simon. Very good tips.
Thank you for another excellent video!
Thank you so much for this video!!
Wow! A fantastic tutorial, showing us just what Lightroom is capable of. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise.
Incidentally, I notice that you didn't tweak the tone curve - something that I've always been advised to do.
You're very welcome!
A big thank you for sharing👍👍👍 You are very complete and detailed in all your tutorials 😅😅 Among the best I’ve seen. ❤❤👍👍👍
Thanks very much!
Fabulous tutorial. Thank you so much 🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent Simon. I’d like add a tip to what you have so clearly explained and demonstrated, and that is the use of virtual copies. For those who don’t know what they are, Lightroom allows the creation of multiple versions of the original file without altering the original file. For example after the first stage of developing the image, that file is saved. From there a person can right click the file to make a virtual copy and the start point is the initial editing that was done in that initial development, from there they can apply the ‘artistic edits’ that you showed in your video. When that file is saved the library will have both edited copies available to choose from. Another example is that various crops of this image could be saved e.g horizontal or vertical. Thanks for your excellent videos Simon I appreciate them.
Excellent additions! Thanks for sharing!
Excellent tutorial, thank you.
You are welcome!
All killer, no filler. Just the way I like it. Thanks Simon
haha thx Robert!
Wow I don't think I fully appreciate how great you can improve an image when you correct the color casting or in your case reduce the blues for the bird awesome tutorial good sir
Glad it was helpful!
Hej Simon, Your subscriber from Sweden, i have ordered my gear a newbie, I am sure with your videos i can translate into a better photographer for sure. Thank you so much ❤.
What a fantastic video! I have never seen someone give so much information on processing bird photos. Please sir, I want some more!
Thank you! Will do!
Just now seeing this video and it's incredible. Thank you good sir!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent, thank you so much.
I’m impressed! Thank you for sharing your skills.
Thank you too!
Thank you so much for the tips , especially the artistic interpretations.
You're very welcome!
Thanks again Simon, can't wait to try out some of these techniques
Fantastic!
Basic processing !! Ha ha ha. My brain buffer was almost full!. Thanks for the tips!!
You're an excellent teacher. This was very helpful.
Glad to hear that!
Highly informative and well explained.. thank you so much.. respect from India🙏
So nice of you
Your videos are fantastic! Thank you
This is one of the most helpful guides I’ve seen
Thanks very much!
so glad i stumbled upon this video.. learned so much!
Great!
Great tips!! Thanks much.
Thanks so much, this was indeed a new learning experience for me.
You are so welcome!
amazing tutorial. best channel on bird photography!
Too kind!