Finishing Touches to Bring Your Vision of Birds to Life

Module 3: Refine Framing, Lighting, Emphasis and Image Quality

Our cameras are amazing, but they do not see the world like we do. That's why photos straight out of the camera often fall short of what you experienced on location. The good news? Post-processing lets you render images that truly reflect your vision and restore that natural, engaging look.

Start with two simple yet powerful edits that can enhance nearly any wildlife photo. These refine the composition framing and perfect the overall exposure. Easy to learn how. Any photo editor will do them.

Birds live in a cluttered world. The next highest payback is to selectively lighten or darken to separate the bird from the background and any distractions. Artists use lighting to guide the viewer’s eye around a photo or painting.

Finally a few specialized tools to improve image quality of birds in low light or far away which required noisy high ISO or deep crops.

Video Chapters:

• 0:00:00 -- Introduction

• 0:03:45 -- Two Easy Edits Can Likely Improve Any Image

• 0:13:16 -- Why Edit? Cameras See the World Differently Than We Do

• 0:26:56 -- My Workflow Toolkit with Crop and Exposure Demos

• 0:51:34 -- Master the Lighting: Dodge, Burn and Vignette

• 1:09:07 -- Enhance Image Quality: Denoise, Sharpen, Upsize

• 1:23:14 -- Declutter with Remove Tools and Reasons for Raw Files

• 1:27:01 -- Wrapup

Each module stands on its own and can be watched in any order. This video ticket will include a 30% discount code to use for the other two bird photography modules.