Landscape Photography Tutorials, Training, and Tips - Scott Davenport Photography

Lightroom Classic gives you plenty of ways to organize photographs: catalogs, folders, collections, ratings, keywords, color labels, location data, and more. The challenge is not finding enough organizational tools. It is deciding which ones are worth using.

It is tempting to begin by creating an elaborate folder hierarchy or compiling a long list of keywords. But befor...

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Snowy landscapes often develop a strong blue color cast, especially when the snow sits beneath a clear blue sky or falls into deep shadow. Some of that blue belongs in the photograph. Snow in shadow should look cooler than snow illuminated by direct sunlight.

The problem begins when the blue becomes so strong that it overwhelms the...

Sometimes the landscape gives you the composition you want, but not every moving element cooperates at the same moment.

This happens often with seascapes. The wave action may look perfect in the foreground while the water farther into the scene feels too busy. A few seconds later, the midground improves, but the foreground loses it...

AI masking in Lightroom can create an excellent starting point, but the first selection is not always the finished mask. You may find a thin ridge after subtracting an object, a boundary that extends too far, or a transition that simply feels too abrupt.

Fixing those problems has traditionally meant reaching for the Brush tool and ...