Hi Andrea, one of the techniques I like in landscape is to use Select Sky with a linear gradient intersect, drawing down from the top as you do, and reducing brightness. If you look at real-life horizons, the sky is often lighter near the horizon because of moisture diffraction - ground haze. Higher up in the sky you get richer colors. So I will use one Select Sky for that brightness gradient, and a second select sky to control white balance and saturation independently. I re-adjust the sky after adding a post-crop vignette. I live in Washington state, and our winter skies are usually misty, dark and diffuse, partially hiding the mountains, so I want to emphasize that haze in the distance. But the best trick is my very first step after loading an image: Shift-double-click both the Whites and Blacks slider titles to auto-set the white point and black point to get the maximum dynamic luminance and color ranges without clipping.
Yeah, the Select Sky intersected with the Linear Gradient is a very effective technique to get a more organic sky. Thanks so much for the comment and for sharing your thoughts, Erik! 🙂
Hi, Andrea. This is also a great video with interesting content. Belongs with "How to Compose", "Telephoto Landscapes", "White Bal.." What do I write? All are favorites! And the more I look at it, the more I wonder what I've done in the last few years. Photographing? I doubt it. But it's never too late. With regards, Erich
Hi Andrea: Thanks for creating and sharing this video. It was very informative and always a good self-check on how images are edited. Well done! Cheers, Keith
Hi David, thanks so much for the lovely comment! I truly appreciate it. I'm really glad you enjoyed the video. Wishing you a fantastic Happy New Year! 🙂 P.S. I have something special planned for one of my next videos, something I'm pretty sure you'll recognize. 😄
Hi Andrea, I made all the mistakes you high lite here but with your master class def it does help me to overcome those issues and me too @erikhy " one of the techniques I like in landscape is to use Select Sky with a linear gradient intersect " , this will avoid the halo effect of the trees and water , improves a much better clean and smooth edge . Thanks Andrea .
Thank you, Jason! Glad you enjoyed the video. I haven't shifted away from Capture One; I genuinely enjoy teaching both software. The principles I shared in the video are applicable to any editing platform.🙂
@@AndreaLivieriPhoto - that's great to know. There is a shortage of quality content featuring Capture One editing tips and workflows, and I found your Capture One videos extremely helpful in the past. I hope we'll get more in the future. Cheers!
would love to see the detail at 13:31 rendered with Capture One. They say Lightroom has caught up with rendering Fuji files but to me, it looks still unnatural, like painted, not photographed. Part of it may be a UA-cam compression but still.... Nothing to do with your image Andrea which is fabulous btw..
Thanks for the comment, Richard. Appreciated! Even though the video didn't specifically talk about it, Capture One is still better at sharpening Fujifilm photos than Lightroom. If you'd like, I have put together a side-by-side comparison of the same image in the two pieces of software in a blog post: bit.ly/3GZ5civ2
@@AndreaLivieriPhoto - It is not just Fujifilm files that are benefitting from Capture One's RAW conversion. My Nikon files (from a Z5) have a significant amount more detail and microcontrast in Capture One than they do when processed in ACR or LrC, even without sharpening. And Capture One definitely sharpens them better, as well. I've tried to go back to ACR and/or LrC multiple times recently, and I always end up returning to Capture One because the details are that much better. Between that, the freedom of sessions, and what I consider to be much more natural color handling despite ACR and LrC adding the well-designed point-color tool, I cannot leave Capture One.
Hi Andrea, one of the techniques I like in landscape is to use Select Sky with a linear gradient intersect, drawing down from the top as you do, and reducing brightness. If you look at real-life horizons, the sky is often lighter near the horizon because of moisture diffraction - ground haze. Higher up in the sky you get richer colors. So I will use one Select Sky for that brightness gradient, and a second select sky to control white balance and saturation independently. I re-adjust the sky after adding a post-crop vignette. I live in Washington state, and our winter skies are usually misty, dark and diffuse, partially hiding the mountains, so I want to emphasize that haze in the distance.
But the best trick is my very first step after loading an image: Shift-double-click both the Whites and Blacks slider titles to auto-set the white point and black point to get the maximum dynamic luminance and color ranges without clipping.
Yeah, the Select Sky intersected with the Linear Gradient is a very effective technique to get a more organic sky. Thanks so much for the comment and for sharing your thoughts, Erik! 🙂
Super helpful! The Sharpening masking is yuuuuuuuge
Glad you found the video helpful. Thanks so much 🙂
Super helpful video, some tips I didn't even think about like selective masking for noisy skies. Thx andrea!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks so much for the comment :)
Great tips Adrea. I would love to see more Capture One videos from you.
Thank you very much, Alan! I have plenty of new Capture One tutorials planned for 2024 🙂
Genial tu Video Andrea. 😃
Thanks so much! 🙂
Gran bel video Andrea! Buon anno e grazie dei consigli.
Grazie mille per il commento, Claudio! Mi fa piacere che il video ti sia stato utile 🙂 Buon Anno anche a te!
Very helpful. Thanks,
Thanks so much for the comment, and glad it was helpful! 🙂
Tank you Andrea for your video
Thanks so much Claude! Glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
Thank you, Andrea. Some helpful tips. All the best for 2024!
Glad you found the video useful! Thank you very much, and Happy New Year 🙂
Hi, Andrea. This is also a great video with interesting content. Belongs with "How to Compose", "Telephoto Landscapes", "White Bal.." What do I write? All are favorites! And the more I look at it, the more I wonder what I've done in the last few years.
Photographing? I doubt it. But it's never too late. With regards, Erich
Thanks so much, Erich! I'm really happy to hear you found my videos helpful. Photography is a never ending journey! Enjoy the process 🙂
Great video and advice 👍🙂
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
Hi Andrea: Thanks for creating and sharing this video. It was very informative and always a good self-check on how images are edited. Well done! Cheers, Keith
Thanks so much for the comment, Keith! I'm really glad you found the video useful 🙂 Ciao
Fantastic video. Mostly new to me and very helpful! (BTW: Super video production. Love the music. You're a talented guy!)
Hi David, thanks so much for the lovely comment! I truly appreciate it. I'm really glad you enjoyed the video. Wishing you a fantastic Happy New Year! 🙂 P.S. I have something special planned for one of my next videos, something I'm pretty sure you'll recognize. 😄
Hi Andrea, I made all the mistakes you high lite here but with your master class def it does help me to overcome those issues and me too @erikhy " one of the techniques I like in landscape is to use Select Sky with a linear gradient intersect " , this will avoid the halo effect of the trees and water , improves a much better clean and smooth edge . Thanks Andrea .
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Great video, as usual, Andrea. I'm curious why you moved away from Capture One.
Thank you, Jason! Glad you enjoyed the video. I haven't shifted away from Capture One; I genuinely enjoy teaching both software. The principles I shared in the video are applicable to any editing platform.🙂
@@AndreaLivieriPhoto - that's great to know. There is a shortage of quality content featuring Capture One editing tips and workflows, and I found your Capture One videos extremely helpful in the past. I hope we'll get more in the future. Cheers!
would love to see the detail at 13:31 rendered with Capture One. They say Lightroom has caught up with rendering Fuji files but to me, it looks still unnatural, like painted, not photographed. Part of it may be a UA-cam compression but still.... Nothing to do with your image Andrea which is fabulous btw..
Thanks for the comment, Richard. Appreciated! Even though the video didn't specifically talk about it, Capture One is still better at sharpening Fujifilm photos than Lightroom. If you'd like, I have put together a side-by-side comparison of the same image in the two pieces of software in a blog post: bit.ly/3GZ5civ2
@@AndreaLivieriPhoto - It is not just Fujifilm files that are benefitting from Capture One's RAW conversion. My Nikon files (from a Z5) have a significant amount more detail and microcontrast in Capture One than they do when processed in ACR or LrC, even without sharpening. And Capture One definitely sharpens them better, as well. I've tried to go back to ACR and/or LrC multiple times recently, and I always end up returning to Capture One because the details are that much better. Between that, the freedom of sessions, and what I consider to be much more natural color handling despite ACR and LrC adding the well-designed point-color tool, I cannot leave Capture One.