Focus & Focal Length Blending for Landscapes
Join Rammy Kazemi for advanced techniques for editing landscape photographs. In this class you’ll learn the importance of focus stacking landscape images, how to blend images taken at different focal lengths together to bring the background closer, how to replace the sky with one that is more interesting, how to enhance the colors in the photo, why you should dodge and burn to enhance the lighting in the scene, and some final touches that help to unify the end result. Understanding these techniques will help you shoot differently to capture all of the necessary elements and give you the skills to blend them all together for eye popping results.
Release Date: 2019-10-23
Lessons
Introduction
The instructor introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
Duration: 2 mins 47 seconds
How and Why We Focus Stack
Rammy goes into the field to demonstrate the reasons for why we focus stack.
Duration: 2 mins 39 seconds
Preparing Files
Starting in Lightroom Classic, Rammy prepares the source photos and sends them to Photoshop as layers in a single document.
Duration: 9 mins 23 seconds
Focal Length Blending
Rammy blends two photos taken at two different focal lengths for dramatic effect.
Duration: 6 mins 31 seconds
Sky Replacement
The next step in the process is to replace the sky in the original photo with a more interesting sky.
Duration: 12 mins 51 seconds
Color Adjustments
With the blending done it is time for some color adjustments to fine tune the image.
Duration: 7 mins 54 seconds
Dodge and Burn
Learn how to use dodging and burning to enhance the lighting in the image.
Duration: 6 mins 20 seconds
Final Touches
With all of the adjustments completed it is time to unify the entire image with a photo filter.
Duration: 5 mins 26 seconds
Recap
Rammy wraps up the class with a quick recap of what we’ve done so far.
Duration: 4 mins 24 seconds