But if you invert the mask, it does it inside the circle. So every time you do something with the radio filter doesn't outside the circle.
And I'm gonna make a little radial right there. So if you double click that, it's actually just going to reset it, and then I'm just gonna increase the warmth of it. And at this point, I'm just going to double click the effect right here. And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take the, um, radial filter. Sun is naturally warm, and then these clouds air naturally blue. So now I'm gonna also I like this son, and you see how it's got a natural warmth to the sun. Um, and so but I've got all of that data there because I didn't blow out the sky. Um, it's a little bluer up there, so it seems a little bit more like a stormy cloud situation. But now you can see that I've got a nicer, thicker set of clouds. So I'm just going to drag it back to the left a little bit, so that's just not quite so crazy. If I drag it to the right, it increases the effect. When I click on it and I drag it to the left, it it pulls away some of that effect. So I hit the option key, and that gives me that little sideways arrow. Now, that effect is a little too over the top. And then I just grabbed down, up, up the top and dragged down, and you can see how deep in those clouds and made the whole sky a little bit bluer. So now I can go up into my Grady int and I can choose to do a what I call a blue sky burn. Um, but because I have all of that information in there, I have 32 bits worth of data.
OK, so there's the full image, and that, I think looks pretty good. But then I'm taking the clarity up in order to get the shadows in the mid tones, like between each blade of grass on between the mountains here and also up in the clouds like that. So them getting dark areas here in the barn and over here inside of the mountains and in some of the shadows here. Um and so I'm gonna take the contrast up a little bit and add a little bit contrast. If I go down like this, or if I take the contrast down and the clarity down and I take it up, then you start to see, like, this weird HD arness. So I'm gonna take the clarity up quite a bit and you can see let me fill the screen here and get rid of those you can see then, as we're working on this file, that as I go up with the clarity see how the. All that's in the middle part of the exposure. I want to add the contrast in the mid tones because that's where all the detail is. Rather than adding contrast to the a lot of contrast to the bottom and the top of the exposure. So I'm gonna take my clarity up because clarity is contrast in mid tones. And then that's about where I sit and say, Okay, now what does it look like now? I want to start adding in shadows and contrast on things like that. Where is usually I end up bringing the shadows up quite a bit. How the different settings and options will impact the final outputīe sure to subscribe to Loaded Landscapes by email or to our YouTube channel to make sure that you don’t miss future video tutorials.What I do is I start by bringing the shadows up.What adjustments you should or shouldn’t make before merging your panorama.
If you don’t already have Lightroom you can download a free trial here. They are both fairly easy to use and can speed up your editing process by saving you from needed to leave Lightroom to create HDR and panoramic images.
In this video Simon Plant walks through the process of using each of these new features. Lightroom 6 (also known as Lightroom CC) was released a few weeks ago and among the most significant and popular new features, especially for landscape and nature photographers, are the HDR merge and panorama merge which allow you to now create HDR images and panoramas without leaving Lightroom.