Landscape Photography Preplanning Post-Processing

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• Join Richard as he introduces the class before heading out to scout locations.
• A visually interesting foreground element is a crucial part of any landscape photograph.
• With a bright sky and dark foreground you can capture a series of bracketed exposures and blend them together.
• Knowing how you will use your software tools later will inform the technique you use to capture the source photos.
• Correcting perspective distortion issues are relatively easy if you capture with this in mind.
• Lens flare is a common problem when shooting into the sun, but when prepared, you can shoot with the fix in mind.
• By shooting two frames in the field, the fix in post processing is fast and effective.
• Focus stacking requires multiple frames of the same scene captured in sequence with each frame being focused deeper and deeper into the scene.
• You can bring the captured frames into Photoshop in a single document, and then have Photoshop blend them all together to create a final image with a wide depth of field.
• From exposure to focus, there are a number of considerations to make when shooting a panoramic photo.
• Lightroom has a powerful feature for combining multiple raw exposures into a single panoramic image that is saved as a fully editable raw file.
• Ending up with unwanted people in your landscape photos is an all too common occurrence, but luckily there is an easy fix if you shoot with that fix in mind.

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