Photographing The World Free Lesson 1 With Elia Locardi

Never mind he has an unkempt beard and sort of a plaid shirt he’s totally credible

Yes!!! New Zealand is the best

I think that regardless of the sky or foreground – it depends on the actual framing of the photo. People need to remember (and hopefully not make the same mistake I did!!) that you need to allow for the frame of the photo so if you go too far down in the photo you will run the risk of cutting off the top of the mountain peak in this example or; if you go too far up you will chop the bottom (foreground) out of the photo as well. Possibly by re-moving yourself to different locations you could include all the elements you wish to capture and still fill the frame in 3rds.

All the careful setup, and make sure you get a car on that road. Just kidding I love roads in landscapes. Scene does not work in 2×3 aspect ratio, period. It's too busy, the right edge is a mess. He's zooming in to check sharpness of course, but to what I see as 77% zoom. Why? It used to be that Photoshop only displayed true resolution at either 50% or 100%, the other magnifications were interpolations and inaccurate. Missed opportunity to use a long exposure and make the waterfall magical. Is this a record of the scene or an attempt to create something artistic.

The light balance is meaningless, it gets set in the RAW converter anyway.

Sucks that you use some proprietary technology. A tutorial should only use techniques in post-processing that are available in all programs (LR, Capture One, RAWTherapee, Gimp, PS, Affinity Photo, etc.)

Imagine you needed some special kind of camera feature for a tutorial. Like "now we need the "6k-photo feature" from my Panasonic camera. Go ahead and buy a 10000 dollar Panasonic camera so you can do it, too."

Also it makes the photographer lazy and depended on companies. I mean, Elia probably simply doesn't have the skill or he would do the color/contrast adjustments with curves, levels etc.

Whoa, wanted to watch this but couldn't, due to wall-to-wall insufferable music.

25:56 : I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

I think you nailed the line of presenting a photo that doesn't come across as deceptive. You didn't oversaturate it, add fake light, and all the other more unsubtle instragram-oriented techniques. It still looks believable given the lighting, and is probably closer to how your eye would have seen the photo.

Boring.

I don't understand people doing Landscape photos. It's all about the photoshop. Before I went to Moab, Utah, I thought it had really red rocks like I saw from pictures by 'Pros'. It was a lot lighter in person. I took a picture just how it looks. Obviously it didn't look good like those photoshopped ones. It gave me the dilemma. Should I photoshop the shit out of it to make it look pretty but it really doesn't look like that in person??? Never trust those pictures done by 'Pros' before visiting. It's better to see amateur's pictures if you want to see how it really looks over there.

Elia stated that working in "Adobe Camera Raw" is a good way to adjust the highlights/exposure/shadows. Does he also mean that simply working with a RAW file in Lightroom is a good way to adjust these? I believe "Adobe Camera Raw" is a specific aspect of Photoshop's program.

You have to "Go for it!" I 'get' that, however, all I can see is a 30 mph wind taking my $1,000 tripod, $500 head, $2,000 lens, and $2,000 body over a cliff………………………and, because I'm out in the middle of nowhere, having to spend the remainder of my $7,000 trip using my camera phone.

Elia locardi I just felt in love with his work! Do you have a start to finish Photoshop course???? Plse do tell!

You dont take landscape photographs with DSLRs. You make them in Photoshop.

Great Ideas
Thanks a loot

I’m Curious? Why didn’t you correct the White Balance 1st??? Then Adjust everything else after…

I rewound the video 10 seperate times and could see sharpening at all. Literally switched to my tv from my phone and couldn’t see it.

Yay New Zealand represent! 😀

"I wanted to be able to teach everything I learned about photography over the last five years". Gee, thanks. From someone who has been at it for the last three decades and is still learning, that just sounds like arrogance.

and read "Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs" by Ansel Adams…

Flying so much your carbon footprint should be enormous. I prefer to travel by train, because if you look for it you can make great foto's anywhere.