Crafting the Landscape Photograph with Lightroom Classic and Photoshop

Chapter 4Eliminate Shooting Artifacts

DECISIONS MADE BEFORE pressing the shutter have consequences that influence how an image will later be processed. For example, the simple act of underexposing a scene will produce an image that demands brightening, which will inevitably exaggerate the noise that lurks in the dark areas of the image. The gear used to capture an image can also produce a variety of undesirable artifacts such as color halos, dark corners, and distortion. The techniques on the pages that follow are designed to mitigate those artifacts and ensure that further processing does not exaggerate any issues that were introduced at the time of capture.

Underexposure

When shooting a scene, a good exposure setting is one of the largest ...