The Ultimate Dodging and Burning Technique
The method of Dodging and Burning I teach in these videos is little known and rarely seen, but it is the easiest and most effective way to enhance your image and vastly superior to either of the common Dodge/Burn methods you see demonstrated.
Most people seem to assume that any method of dodging and burning is the reserve of landscape and perhaps portrait photography – but that is just plain wrong.
Dodging and burning is simply the redistribution of light and shade, contrast and colour, and so any image of any ‘genre’ can benefit from it.
This training consists of 26 videos, 23 of which guide you through processing the included exercise files.
Once you have watched these videos and processed the exercise files yourself you will never use any other method of dodging and burning because this method offers so much more flexibility.
All the videos are in 1440 full screen resolution so you see every detail of the adjustment values I use in both Lightroom and Photoshop.
Throughout the lessons you will see me make extensive use of luminosity masks and selections, and for this I use Greg Benz’s Lumenzia – obtainable HERE if you don’t already have it – though users of the other popular luminosity mask panels such as Raya Pro and TK Actions can follow the same workflow.
Andy Astbury
Andy is a full-time natural history and landscape photographer and a globally recognised specialist teacher of Lightroom, Photoshop, Printing, Colour Management and camera technique. He has been taking pictures for a living since the late 1970's after studying photography for 3 years at college and acquiring his City & Guilds 744. He teaches in his own inimitable style, and breaks tasks down into their simplest components – nothing in photography is difficult, it can be as tedious or as simple as you care to make it. After over 30 years in the business he knows virtually every tip and trick in the book on how to get what you want from both your camera and your processing. Andy teaches you how to keep things both simple and effective, so making better use of your available time, both behind the camera and in front of your monitor.
