PROS Know This About COLOR GRADING, Beginners DON'T

Really nice work! Thank you for the video!
I only do not understand why in the first part you increase both saturation and vividness and then in HSL you desaturate all the image? Shouldn’t be more effective to only de-saturate the single tones?

Watching this video allowed me to slide the clarity slider to the right. Great descriptions of each effect and desired modulation.

Wow

That was an awesome edit. I noticed a little banding being introduced in the sky near the end. Was it still there in your final edit?

Wow, great video

banger edit

How, other than time, did you come to pick up on all of these personal preference editing technique's. For instance choosing to flatten the image at the beginning and reduce purple and magenta in wildlife, and figure out that sharpness masking overlay. I have sort of just started with lightroom (haven't used lightroom clasic) and wildlife photography around 6-7 months ago and have down it casually as a hobby but have never gotten into the editing side of things.
So in this regard I'm just curious how you picked up on all of this. This includes other's who have their own tips and tricks for editing as well. I just want more exposure to niche wildlife editing techniques and I'm amazed by all of the little things that add up.

I recommend image enhance in the last step since it makes larger file size and will eventually make the grading adjustments slower..

great edit but I don't think you need to go through all that work to achieve that look. I think you could do it much quicker if you did it a different way.

PROS know WHAT about COLOR GRADING that beginners don’t?? Your video has NOTHING to do with your title.

While this is a very detailed video with lots of useful info, in my opinion the final result is not that great. The subject looks drastically different to the point where it could be a whole different species in the same genus. There is not a speck of orange anywhere on that bird in the RAW file and it came out looking like it got a bad tan. I think keeping the green in the background would have helped the subject pop more as well. After the edit, it shares a lot of the same tones as the background. Lightning the eye... why? It's center frame and the deep black grabs the eyes right away. It looks very flat with the mask on it. Noise reduction at the beginning is questionable too as all the editing you did would have introduced more noise, especially playing with colors as much as you did.

I love the way you deseturate the image to add it in the color crading tool afterwards. What a great idea! Love it!
You have a great sense of color in mind! I wish I could visualize it like you!
Regards Stefan

Amazing video, very helpful. Thank you 😃🙏

I enjoyed watching your video. I’m interested in watching more of your videos. I hope you don’t mind me suggesting this, given you do these videos for free, but could you explain more of they “why” you are doing things. The “how”‘and “what” are all good, but I am particularly interested in why you are doing certain things. Thanks and well done

Gracias

Spent more time watching you faff around with brushes, grads, sliders to work the image to death - than the video title. As a photographer, what exactly is it you are "imparting" ? that pro v's beginner is missing, because nothing here went beyond lightroom basic edits? Content != title. "This" what?
Sorry this is negative, but reading a title, I expect to see something that resembles it. Which meant I quickly got frustrated watching yet another "heres my edit" video. Nothing new to see.

Maybe keep to the topic? forget personal edits, just work the colour grading and spend the time explaining your process there? And I say that with both respect and experience.

OTOH - for people new to phogography and lightroom.... it is a good "how I edit" video - but lacks some explanations necessary for a beginner level curve.

Extremely useful, professional and artistic. You nailed the water drop!!! ... ... and this is called attention to smallest details!!! Loved every bit of it!!! Thanx! ♥

use your eyes the best camera we have. After raw processing use Photoshop much more control.