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The Skylum All-in-one Photography Bundle includes shooting and editing courses from five famous photographers: Serge Ramelli, Max Rive, Marco Grassi, Matt Suess and David Johnston Draw upon a distillation of their experiences, learn their tricks of the trade and discover what drives their passion for capturing breathtaking landscapes. Their expertise and vision will inspire you to expand your creative capabilities and produce your own enduring images.

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Learn from the masters of photography with these expert courses. Dive into fundamental principles and advanced techniques, discover how to enhance colors, optimize contrast and create captivating compositions. Gain the insider-only knowledge to transform ordinary shots into extraordinary works of art.

Serge Ramelli @photoserge
Zero to Pro Course
Ultimate bundle of six tutorials covers everything you need to know about photography, including basics, composition, retouching, publishing, making an impact on social media and turning your photography passion into a profitable business. Ten hours of content including 62 individual lessons.

Max Rive @maxrivephotography
Photoshop Afternoon Light Editing Tutorial
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Photoshop Landscape Editing Tutorial
Learn to create the best color, contrast, light and sharpness in your landscape image. All landscape editing techniques in this Photoshop editing and post processing tutorial are easy to learn without requiring advanced knowledge of Photoshop.

Landscape Post Processing Course
Create the ultimate color in your landscape photos thanks to all the latest color editing techniques and tricks of this course. Master white balance, split-toning, color calibration, selective color, color balance, color painting, adding color haze and more.

Photoshop Contrast Tutorial
Boost your Photoshop editing skills and create the best possible contrast in your landscapes. Learn to enhance haze between mountain layers, add special vignetting, great shadow details, bright but well exposed highlights and incredible color saturation.

Marco Grassi @marcograssiphotography
Instagram – Smells Viral
Learn from start to finish Marco’s full editing workflow before posting an image to Instagram, including the importance of cropping, resizing and adjusting your images, how to find the best crop, how to get more engagement and how to edit your work specifically for Instagram.

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Learn how Marco edits an image, beginning in Lightroom and ending in Photoshop. Master different post-processing techniques and how to add depth to your pictures and enhance them.

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Learn how to change the mood of your image and turn a flat file, shot during the harsh daylight, into a dramatic and unique scene with this in-depth tutorial. After this tutorial you’ll know how to get a more dramatic look, how to desaturate the blues and more.

Matt Suess @mattsuessphoto
Sky Replacement Masterclass
Discover Matt’s secrets to creating realistic sky replacements, understand the top eight mistakes photographers make when replacing skies and learn the best techniques for realistic results. Discover amazing bonuses included in the course, like 400 high-resolution skies that you can use today.

David Johnston @davidjohnstonphoto
Landscape Photography University 201 – Ignite Your Composition
With this course you can learn the proven system for quickly improving your photographic composition, save time through learning these techniques and reach your goals as a photographer.

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The collection of 120 creative assets (Presets, Skies, LUTs, Overlays for Luminar Neo, with a total value of $222) includes Film Studio Portrait Presets, Wildlife Adventure Presets, Picture-Perfect Landscapes, Overcast Seascapes, Insta Life LUTs, Precious Child LUTs, Fitness LUTs, Tender Blushing Skies, Pacific Coastline Skies and Prism Light Overlays.

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Conventional wisdom has it that we should always shoot at the lowest ISO setting permitted by the situation at hand. But as you can see from the quote in the lead photo above, some pros beg to disagree. In the interesting tutorial below, you’ll learn three reasons why increasing ISO settings can actually help you capture better images.

British landscape photographer Ian Worth has been a full-time pro for over a decade, so when he urges you to “stop shooting at ISO 100,” there plenty of experience backing up that advice. He’s also somewhat of a contrarian who regularly posts tutorials that reveal simple pro tricks (like you’ll find here) that amateurs who pay attention to the “rules” often ignore.”

In this behind-the-scenes lesson you’ll watch Worth visit a stunning coastal location while discussing ways to modify ISO settings to open up a new world of photographic opportunities. He begins by explaining how he prefers to shoot: “I never even consider what my ISO value is unless it gets above 6,400.” He also reveals that he typically shoots in Aperture Priority mode, and never lets his shutter speed drop below 1/100.

Interestingly, especially for a pro with a portfolio of great images, he adds that “I let Auto ISO take care of the rest.” So much for the “purists” who insist that you’re not a real photographer unless you shoot in Manual mode.

Worth defends the above approach like this: “I can control my exposure with the EV-Compensation dial. It’s such a quick and simple way of allowing me to take photos and concentrate on what’s happening around me.”

The first situation in which Worth recommends bumping up ISO is when you’re shooting hand-held. Here, Worth’s rationale is obvious: avoiding camera shake. As he says, “Camera shake will ruin an image to the point of no repair.” So how about setting up a tripod? Worth insists that doing so could make him miss a fleeting moment of spectacular light.

As the video continues, you’ll watch Worth capture some nice image as various ISO settings—in both color and b&w—so you can compare them and decide for yourself. There’s also a quick discussion regarding the ramifications of shooting at base ISO.

Worth also demonstrates how to use ISO to freeze motion, as well as how to control it to suit his creative vision. Be sure to watch until the end, because he offers a bonus tip about what he calls “ISO invariant cameras.”

There’s much more to learn on Worth’s instructional YouTube channel, so be sure to take a look.

And don’t miss another tutorial we posted recently, explaining five more pro techniques for shooting amazing landscape nature photos.

Yesterday we featured a primer on exposure bracketing, explaining how to get the light right by shooting three images of the same scene, and merging them during the editing process. Today you’ll learn how nail exposure in the camera by using the oft-ignored histogram that you can set to appear on the rear LCD.

Histograms are available in modern DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, and even with some full-featured compact models. Today’s tutorial discusses how a camera’s histogram works, make sure it’s available on your display, and use it to take the guesswork out of properly exposing photos in all kinds of light.

Instructor Darren J. Spooley is a seasoned Irish pro, specializing in landscape photography, who says the easy-to-use histogram is one of the photographer’s best friends. Despite the utility of the powerful tool, it only takes Spooley three minutes to explain “how it’s going to help you save your photos.”

Spooley describes the histogram as a graph that provides “a visual representation of the pixels on a sensor in the scene that you’re shooting.” It indicates the brightness of your image with pure black on the left, pure white on the right, and everything else in between.” Spooley notes that. “the taller the bar, the more pixels exist in that particular area.”

What all this means when shooting in the field is this: if you notice that the histogram is leaning to the left, it’s a sure bet that your photo will be underexposed. Conversely, overexposure occurs when the histogram trends to the right side of the graph. Armed with this information, it’s easy to use EV compensation to arrive at a “correct” exposure—with the histogram appearing as a “mountain on the graph,” sloping to either side.

Sometimes, however, a so-call “proper” exposure isn’t what you want. Perhaps you’re after a dark moody effect, or a bright-and-airy look. Spooley demonstrates how the histogram can still be used in such cases to quickly arrive at an exposure that reflects your creative vision.

Spooley says using the histogram will help you nail exposure every time. Or as he puts it, there’s “nothing worse” than wrestling with an over- or under-exposed image during the editing process.

We encourage you to visit Spooley’s YouTube channel for more helpful advice like this.

And be sure to check out the exposure bracketing tutorial mentioned above.