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Editing the contrast and color for a snowy lakeside shot

Editing the contrast and color for a snowy lakeside shot

From the course: Travel Photography: Mountains and Snow Landscapes

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Editing the contrast and color for a snowy lakeside shot

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Earlier we took a look at how to edit snow, and by that, I mean how to adjust snow totally so that you can get more detail out of it. You saw me, in Lightroom, use the whites and highlights slider to really expand that upper quarter-tone range. Of the histogram to pull all of the detail that I could out of those bright highlights. Snow is a drag to work with if there are dark things in your scene also because you end up inherently in this really high dynamic range situation that can make editing a little tricky. It's great though, because that means you get an image with lots of contrast. Unless you're in a blizzard, where there's not a lot of contrast, like we were the other day. But take a look at this. I got this scene with, with all this snow mixed among all these dark rocks. I have already done a lot of work on this image in Light Room. I've adjusted my tones and so on and so forth. I moved it on in here to Photo Shop because I wanted to do some selected editing. And I just don't…

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