Image edit Settings for Ocean or Surf Photography: Post Edit

A. Surf photography Lightroom tutorial. How I edit my photos. KEEP IT SIMPLE.

/ Mid-Morning, PartlyCloudy, Watershot

1. Straighten w/ Horizon

2. Exposure:

• a. Increase if dark & inverse
• Exposure: +2.02, Contrast: +12

3. Highlights Down : -100

4. Shadow Brighten: Increase: +24

5. Whites Up: +14

6. Blacks Down: -26

7. Clarity: boost tad: + 10 , Saturation: -2

8. Zoom in check

9. Curve/Histogram Fix

10. DeNoise

• a. If bands in dark areas, deNoise

11. Sharpen : 2-5

12. Lenses Correction

B. Processing Surf Photos With Adobe Lightroom /

Overcast Waters hot

1. Exposure : Up

2. Contrast: +93

3. Clarity” +38

4. Vibrancy: +50

5. Temp: down

6. Tint; +10

7. Tones:

• a. Highlights: -100
• b. Whites : -45
• c. Blacks: -24
• d. Shadows: +50

8. DeNoise/Noise Reduction : color; 10

C. Photoshop Tutorial- Surf Photography /

Cloudy Mid Morning Watershot

1. Exposure: : +1.05, Contrast: +93

2. Highlights: -100, Shadows: +60

3. Whites: –45, Blacks: -24

4. Clarity: +38, Vibrance: +45

5. White Balance:

• a. Temp: 6600
• b. Tint: +20

6. Mask Clouds:

• a. Contrast: +100
• b. Exposure: -2
• c. Highlights: -10
• d. Shadows: -50

7. Laser: Ride + Wave

• a. Contrast: +1

D. 36 (not-so) Essential Steps to Editing SURF Images! /

Mid day, Bight, Landshot Pieline

1. Contrast: +34

2. Highlights: -88

3. Shadows: +42

4. Whites : +39

5. Blacks: -12

6. Clarity: +20

7. Vibrancy: +9

8. White Balance:

• a. Temp: 6600
• b. Tint: +19

10. Curves:

a. Highlights: +21

b. Lights: +20

c. Darks: +14

d. Shadows: +9

9. Curves:

a. Red: -2

b. Yellow: +22

c. Aquas: -94

E. Post-Production Tutorial- Surf Shooting from Land. /

Morning, Bright

1. Exposure: -.7

2. Contrast: +39

3. Shadow’s: +38 / Highlights: -100

4. White +28/ Blacks: -28

5. Clarity: +46 / Vibrancy +9

6. Tones:

a. Temp: 4900

b. Tint: + 3

7. Select area: Wave & Riders:

a. Temp: +2

b. Tone: +6

c. Exposure: +.3

d. Contrast” +71

e. Highlights”: -100

f. Shadows: + 100

g. Clarity”: + 43

h. Saturation: +40

i. Sharpness: +8

F. How To Edit Your Surf Photos | Light room Editing :

Morning /Dark/Shadows

1. Highlights: +38

2. Shadows: +36

3. Whites: + 20

4. Blacks: -22

5. Temp: 6300, Tint: +14

6. Exposure: +0.26, Contrast: 0

7. Clarity: +38

8. Saturation: +11

9. Colors/Only play with

10. Orange, Green, Blue, Aqua

11. Sharpness: + 30

G. How To Edit Your Surf Photos | Light room Editing 2 :

Morning /Dark

1. Highlights: -55

2. Shadows: +36

3. Whites: + 13

4. Blacks: -7

5. Temp: 6300, Tint: +23

6. Exposure: +0.16, Contrast: +3

7. Clarity: +40

8. Saturation: +0

9. Colors/Only play with

10. Orange (+1-+20), Green, Blue, Aqua

11. Sharpness: + 40

H. How to edit AMAZING LANDSCAPE PHOTOS

PM/Partly Cloudy

1. Highlights: -100

2. Shadows: +65

3. Whites: + 0

4. Blacks: -50

5. Temp: 6100, Tint: +28

6. Exposure: +0, Contrast: +50

7. Clarity: +18, Vibrance: +8

8. Saturation: +0

9. Colors/Only play with

10. Orange , Green, Blue (Saturation: –41, Lumins: +20) , Aqua (make it feel cold)

11. Sharpness: + 40

I How to Edit a Wave Photo in Lightroom

Flat Color/Noon/Clear

1. Highlights: -100

2. Shadows: 0

3. Whites: + 16

4. Blacks: -57

5. Temp: -11, Tint: 0

6. Exposure: +0, Contrast: +47

7. Clarity: +100, Vibrance: +37

8. Saturation: +23

9. Colors/Only play with

10. Orange , Green, Blue (Saturation: –41, Lumins: +20) , Aqua (make it feel cold)

11. Sharpness: + 40

J Surf photography — Late Afternoon Dusk

Late Afternoon Dusk

1. Highlights: -27

2. Shadows: +8

3. Whites: -65

4. Blacks: +7

5. Temp: -11, Tint: 0

6. Exposure: +1.2, Contrast: +80

7. Clarity: -15, Vibrance: +37

8. Saturation: +23

9. Colors/Only play with

10. Orange 0,-30,-24 , Red +20,+25,-20, Green, Blue , Aqua –34,-59,-10

11. Sharpness: + 20

K Why LIGHTROOM EDITS go WRONG!

Late Afternoon Dusk

1. Highlights:0

2. Shadows: 0

3. Whites: 0

4. Blacks: 0

5. Tint: +7

6. Exposure: 0, Contrast: +38

7. Clarity: +21, Vibrance: 0

8. Saturation: 0

9. Colors/Only : Choose Color to bring out, What do u want people to look at::

Pick Color: Increase Saturation/ Decrease Luminance

Saturation: Aqua: + 62, Blue: –7

Luminance: +26

Saturation: Yellow: + 61, Green: +46

Luminance: Yellow: +81, Green+ 34

11. Lens Correction: ON

L Beach Color Grading Effect in Photoshop & Lightroom Mobile

Mid Afternoon Clear, BlueSky

1. Highlights:-100

2. Shadows: +76

3. Whites: +48

4. Blacks: -11

5. Tint:0

6. Exposure: 0, Contrast: 30

7. Clarity: 15, DeHaze: 15, Vibrance: 0

8. Saturation: -25

9. Colors/Only : ToDo

10. Blue: 0, Green: 0

11. Lens Correction:

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M Lightroom Tutorial - Editing Beach Photos

Noon, Sunny Partly Cloudy, Reduce Shadows, using Curves

- Composition, show surfer coming from right or left to show anticipation; Top or bottom 3rd

- Shutter: TV Mode, Freeze Action: 1/800->1/200; 1/800 or Super Sunny: 1/1000

- If image darkened from edit, Bring UP exposure

- Highlights all UP: Colors are Blown Out

- Shadows UP: Brightens

- Bad AM Beach Photos: Avoid DULL, Highlights/Whiets Blown Out, Histogram on Right Peak

- Dark AM Photos: Vibrance +75, Magenta+2, Clarity+10, Shadows +40, Hughlights-5, Contrast +33,

N. Photoscape X Setting Descriptions:

• Brighten. We’ll slide the brightness to 100 since the image is super dark.
• Lighten Shadows. We’ll increase this to about 50 to lighten up the dark areas of the image to bring out more detail and texture.
• Exposure. Exposure is very similar to brighten. We already increased Brighten to 100 and the image still looks very dark so we’ll up the Exposure to about 65.
• Vibrance. Vibrance is a tool that will add color to the image, similar to Saturation. I like to use the Vibrance tool because it will only intensify the colors that look muted and leave the colorful parts as they are.
• Lighten Shadows. This will bring out detail and color in the darker areas of the photo. This is especially helpful if you shoot sunset and sunrise photos that can often come out a bit too dark.
• Darken Highlights. This will darken the light parts of the image. By darkening highlights, we are able to make the sky look a lot more vibrant.
• Saturation. Saturation increases the intensity of all colors in the image. When adding saturation be careful not to go overboard with it. While a little bit of saturation can make the photo look better, too much can make it look unnatural and overly saturated.
• Temperature. Since we’re going for a sunset look in this photo we’ll move the temperature slider towards the orange/warmer tones.
• Tint. We’ll move the tint slider a bit towards purple tones which look more natural than green tones in a sunset.
• HDR: HDR or “High Dynamic Range” is a technique that photographers use to capture extra detail in photos. In a typical HDR process a photographer will usually take multiple photos at different exposure levels (dark, medium, light) and then use the HDR setting to combine these photos into one. This would yield one finished photo with even exposure levels and tons of detail.

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1. Highlights:0

2. Shadows: 0

3. Whites: 0

4. Blacks: 0

5. Tint:0

6. Exposure: 0, Contrast: 0

7. Clarity: 0, DeHaze: 0, Vibrance: 0

8. Saturation: 0

9. Colors/Only : ToDo

10. Blue: 0, Green: 0

11. Lens Correction:

12: Curve: