Crafting the Landscape Photograph with Lightroom Classic and Photoshop

Chapter 6Eliminate Processing Artifacts

MY APPROACH TO leading the eye through a scene with after-capture refinement is identical to the mindset I use when I’m looking through the lens, composing an image. I take inventory of what’s in front of me, dividing all elements of the scene into positive, negative, and neutral areas. I then attempt to maximize the positives (by moving closer to make them larger) and minimize the negatives (by re-framing to exclude them, or rendering them as out-of-focus or underexposed). I also prevent neutral areas, such as a boring overcast sky, from dominating the composition (by tilting down to include more landscape and less sky). I then find the vantage point that arranges those elements into a simple composition ...