basics to BANGERS (Lightroom Magic!)

Drop a like cause its my Birthday :) YAY! Enjoy :)

You are by far the one person that inspired me the most to pursue my love for photography. Been following you for years and your work is always inspiring and motivating.

Keep it up, Pete!

So what did you end up doing with your photo?

You make it look soooo easy Ben lol

I would have to watch this a thousand times to absorb and retain it all lol

how can i learn any of the tools your using? Its going so fast i cant learn anything besides watch u edit a photo. look u prolly to busy to even write back to this. I am new to all this i am practicing with luminar and lighroom.. I also started out with photoshop. I think i need to learn about photo editing before i can learn much in photoshop. i have looked around for some type of online courses or videos to pay for to learn this stuff.. any ideas? forget my punctuaution

Sheesh, I feel like my brain is expanded faster than I can comprehend. Good stuff. Thanks matey

I'm having issues with my radial filter, its lagging so bad now after upgrading to windows 11 and doing a clean system install. What the heck am I missing in the settings? My machine is a beast so its not lagging in that way. Also got three m.2's and 2 SSD's in my pc. Note paid subscription too, not cracked lol

This man is a genius!

logrado,, gracias hermano ,bendiciones

ACTUALLY WORK S

Thank you so much! It works really well!

these are techniques I have been using since I started learning photoshop…in 1997. Benjamin has totally mastered it. 100% do all the same with my current photography.

This guy is amazing

Grande Peter!!! Thankyou

Sweet!

Holy crap! The lighting on Ben in his instructional part of this video is awesome too.

This is no longer photography

pretty disappointed we didnt see how you edited your photo afterwards

Peter, would you suggest editing our own photos or hiring a professional retoucher?

What name apk ??

Kind of a proud moment for myself as i knew how to do this before the video and it does super duper help with adding just that little bit of pop to a photo even if you have a subject

yo bro your content is so amazing keep up

Tuo need ask Matti why light is North evry Day different, reason that is Sun what give evry Day different light in North Area.
When yuo go stret photo in Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm, sunset and sunrise IS evry Day different logation

so what you are saying is......anyone can take the picture you editing...and anyone can use Lightroom to edit, but it all depends on how creative you are with the editing....interesting, as that does not make you a great photographer.

You don't need to use your hands when your talking it's distracting and annoying

Peter how much will you take to cut your hair ??
I million dollars? 🙂

Benjamin seems super chill.

I never realized how similar you sound to Ryan Reynolds Deadpool

As far as I'm concerned, Ben is a magician

Please don't use the towball to recover a vehicle. That is an absoloute no no!!!

love this... so much goodness! thx @benjaminhardman

baaaaah, tá editando o que sabe 👏👏 aulas e cursos, or better, classes 'n curses

Want to do that course.

This is total manipulation not photography, the only " photography" your friend did was the outline shapes of rocks or whatever, and i was told you were good.

This is what old folks call Dodging and Burning.... LOL

What camera was pulled out when you told the dude the light was hitting awesome?

He looks like Jared Leto)

Wow nice place!

I wish i could learn how to set up that amazing studio recording of bens! looks so clean!

SO MUCH TO EDIT 😆😆😆😆😆

How on earth have i never thought of this 🤯🤯🤯

OMG same old aaaaaarrrrrr

I want that pirate hat

I'm just getting started with editing photo's but since I don't have the money to pay for something like lightroom (I'm 15), I started with Darktable. However I struggle to find good tutorials on Darktable and after a while, I still didn't get any further than some little tweaks to the color balance. Any advice?

I am not a purist, or an elitist, not even a paid professional. But I have been doing photography, videography, and photoshop for over 2 decades.
Photoshop was my jam, won a lot of creative contests, and did things like HDR merges before anyone even knew what HDR was.

I specialized in photo-realistic edits that look 100% true to life, but the whole thing is fake.

What I saw here is much in line with many things I used to do in photoshop, but I was always under the impression that beyond some exposure, white balance, sharpening, etc that extreme edits like this are more photo editing not photo correcting, and thus no longer would quality as "photos" but start entering more into the artistic domain.

But since the technique is being crafted by a professional photographer, would this still be something you could submit to a photography publication?, if so where is the line drawn?
I'd just hate to have someone have a reputation smashed if someone was exposed for "editing" photos rather than correcting them, and this thought came to mind so I figured t I would bring it up for friendly discussion.

Huh, ive been using this masking technique for a month and a half or so without realizing how absolutely gamechanging it can be. Gonna be doing more detailed masking in the future for sure