LANDSCAPE EDITING GUIDE

Discover the editing secrets behind the most popular multiple exposure landscape photography techniques

Discover the processing secrets and methods behind some of the most popular multiple exposure landscape photography techniques

Just like football, photography is a game of two halves. On the one hand, you have shooting, where we aim to get everything as close to perfect as possible in-camera to help achieve the best image quality; while on the other there’s editing, where we intend to make our images look their very best – the icing on the cake.

Some purists believe that shooting JPEGs is the most faithful approach to photography because editing hasn’t been applied, but this is untrue because JPEGs are processed incamera according to the picture style set. So, it’s always better to take full control yourself rather than leaving image processing to an engineer working for a camera manufacturer.

There are some landscape photography techniques where the shooting and editing stages go hand in hand – the two are inextricably linked – and these techniques are heavily dependent on editing because they involve shooting multiple exposures to ultimately improve and increase detail in several different ways.

Focus stacking, HDR photography, panoramas and HDR panoramas are four such landscape techniques. We’re going to explain how to shoot each with tutorials on how to process images for the techniques to achieve the most natural results possible. By the end of the tutorials, you’ll be able to shoot these techniques individually or combine them to take the level of detail in your landscape shots to new heights, ultimately, giving your shooting and editing skills the shot in the arm they deserve.

ALL IMAGES © JAMES ABBOT BALANCING ACT As photographers, we’re often inclined to put more effort into the shooting side of the image-making process, but editing is just as important