What a gem of a video, so much knowledge to take from it. Thank you.

I really liked this video and I suspect that more exposure to your editing style would improve my photography. Consider doing more like this. Thank you.

That was a really helpful episode. Good to concentrate in some pictures on the crop, in others on the exposure and sometimes „I couldn’t resist“ 😄 Due to fact that there are some photos left you could do a volume 2?

Brilliant video and learned a lot on the thought process. It really shows that once composition is nailed, there isn’t a lot that needs to be done from an editing standpoint.

Highly debatable, haha. Especially when you are doing exposure blending or image averaging.. along with a lot of different local adjustments! People like to add their own creative touch :3

What great images! Loved seeing the thought process on editing them, especially the cropping or making composition adjustments in the field.

This video is extremely helpful in terms of composition and edits. Bravo! Would love to see more.

Congratulations to all those amazing photographers and their stunning images, and thanks to you Nigel, as always, for the fantastic video !

Loved how the images were transformed with just a few changes. Particularly important is the need for simplicity and removing distractions. Your comments were very informative.

Please do more videos like this one. Your eye for composition and light and sharing your thoughts and real world edits was an amazing lesson. Thanks.

Amazing video, as always. I love how you teach so naturally and it is so great to learn from you here. Thank you so much, Nigel! Love from Brazil ❤️ (btw how's your injury? Are you making progress or fully healed?)

Nigel - thank you so much for editing my submission (Tom Poundall here 😊). I picked this photo as I thought it would enable you to play with the quality of Nikon's raw files (which is excellent to say the least). Photo was taken after a long day of hiking and without a tripod for context. Now that I am back in the UK, I hope our paths meet in the future 😎🙌

Fantastic video! I enjoyed seeing how you edited other people's photos. Also...way to go with making a 29 minute video fly by! I thought I was halfway through only to see I had like 3 minutes left! 😀

Great video Nigel. Really like seeing the transformative impact of your creative crops. Would love to see more videos from you like this.

Great video as always Nigel. More of these please, as they are SO informative & therefore very helpful. Keep up the good work.

Learned some great tips. I never thought of saturating colors separately. So much more control than sat slider. I saturate one or two but never bring the entire saturation panel up together. Light bulb.

Nigel, this photo editing video is awesome. I’ve learnt so much from it. What a great way to share your knowledge. Thank you 🙏

Love this. Learn so much. Even when I disagree on the edit, which as you say is often personal taste, it teaches me so much about making those choices. Thanks

Great video! I enjoyed the combination of critique and demonstration of editing techniques. I learned a lot, and it was enjoyable to see your thought process. Working on other’s photos gives it a nice twist. I agree with some other commenters that a volume 2 may be in order.

Probably the best demonstration of cropping and composition I've seen. Really brought it to life. Thanks.

Thank you for this. I enjoyed seeing how you view an image and how you would edit the images. I'd love to see a few more of these types of videos.

That was helpful, thanks. I tend to put 99% of my effort into the shot and 1% into the edit… and while that’s the correct way around at least, it’s useful to get tips on the latter. An area I’d love to hear more about in future tutorials is colours and colour theory/balance. I suspect lots of us spend our editing time focussing on exposure and details, while forgetting to do anything much about the colours other than tweaking the saturation slider!

Great video as always. Thinking about the ones you cropped a lot, totally agree with what you did but noticed you had the crop tool open (not using aspect ratio) and wondered if that would affect the ability to print the images, that is, 7x5, 18x12 etc. I always struggle with apsect ratios and printing. Be good to have your view. Thanks Chris.

Great video! I find these incredibly helpful! Really interesting 😊

Some really fine images from some accomplished photographers. I learned from your editing and reasoning, Nigel, making this another useful video for me. Thank you for making and posting it.

Hi Nigel, a quick question on crop ratios. I always feel I should maintain a regular print ratio/crop size whereas you just go off piste and irregular. Would love your input. PS: sorry about the skiing reference ;)

And that’s the beauty of photography highlighted in your video. We all have our own personal perspective, so it’s interesting when someone else crops a shot and makes a new shot from an existing one. Not saying it’s better or worse, as that’s always an individual’s taste, but I love that it can be just so different. 👍🏼

Very helpful! Thank you, Nigel. My main takeaway is the combination of dehaze and colour temperature at the first image.

Really enjoyed your editing style Nigel, it has certainly helped to have a good look at the image before you start. Well done, some beautiful images.

Really enjoy these tuts. I'm not a massive landscape photographer but when I do do landscape I need to pay more attention to some of the subtle edits you make in this video. Great work 👍

What an amazing video. Would love to see more of these for sure. Keep up the good work ;)

Great video - fascinating to see the transformation of an image by someone who knows what they're doing!

I am wondering if "Cliff Sun" was a misnomer inspired by the photo itself. Great video, I always think there's nothing left to learn in Lightroom and every time there is!

excellent video Nigel. you definitely need to do more of these! :)

Enjoyed the edits that you did with viewer's images and would like to see additional videos like this. The cropping suggestions and positioning of the camera were very helpfu.

I really enjoy these editing videos as much as the field work; they just need more Pebbles 🐶

I notice when you crop you don’t keep an aspect ratio but rather “free-form crop”. Be curious to see your process someday for preparing an image for printing to fit a standard paper size for example. Great tips on this video thanks!

I am a free crop'er' - not many of my breed around!

Brilliant video and great tips for making the comp/crops both out in the fields and on the computer when editing 😃👍

Really enjoyed this video - hope you do more of these in the future

What a great selection of images!

This was such a helpful video. We would love to see more of your critiques!

I really enjoyed this Nigel, some of the crops revealed a stunning image hidden within but I have a question for you, actually it may be more about physics than photography but I'm sure you'll enjoy that too. I have noticed that when I shoot scenes that include a rainbow, the area outside and beyond the rainbow is always darker than the inside it, this was noticeable on Phil Harland's image and I hoped you would bring it up during your edit. Do you know the reason for this phenomenon? Thanks, Wayne.

@Nigel Danson Thanks for selecting my image for commenting on - when I processed the image I did do some editing on the rainbow to bring out the colours better - I find editing rainbows quite hard to both get them to stand out more and look natural. On the composition it would definitely have worked better had I moved a little further along as you showed - nice to see on your quick edit how that would have balanced it - I was already moving in that direction but grabbed the shot before the rainbow faded so didn't make it that far...!

Thanks and it is due to the scattering / refraction of light and angles from the droplets of water. If you see two rainbows you will see a dark area between them. The physics is actually quite complicated but that is the essence.

15:22 that's an incredible shot, and fantastic edit!! Side note: have you seen editing tutorials from starting with BW and then Slowly adding color? It's pretty cool!! Should try it out

Hi Nigel! I am a big fan of your work and these tips are so helpful, one of the best LR tips I have seen in a YouTube videos in recent times! Thanks for sharing.

After looking at the placing and commended images for the competition, I certainly don't envy the task of picking the winner, some absolutely phenomenal images.

Really learn lots from these walk through editing sessions

Thanks Nigel - so useful seeing your approac to editing. Hope the knee is improving still.

Great video, learnt loads about composition and using Lightroom so thanks Nigel your tips are much appreciated.

Helpful, inspirational, and really interesting points of view!

Really great to see how you approach each photo. I think my favourite bit though was when you thought Cliff Sun was the name of the guy who sent it in. Admittedly he was supposed to put his name in the file name, but even so - brilliant 😂👍

Cliff Sun actually posted in the comments here, it's one of the ones that has been "hearted" by Nigel. Just a coincidence that his photo also had a cliff and the sun :)

It would be nice if you would do one of these video edits once a month, very helpful!

this is just so so cool!!! Thanks so much Nigel for allowing us to watch you work!

Really useful as always to see videos like this Nigel. We never stop learning. Wish I'd sent you my dead tree at Pico Ruivo now!

A "part 2" of this kind of video is a MUST, right??? I learned few tips & tricks here and there that will improve my editing! Thanks!

This was great, thanks Nigel. And "good job" to the photographers!

Nigel, an idea for a future video. Could you walk us through how you created one of your most used presets and then explain how you determine which images that this particular preset is applicable for?

Haha! Love how you cropped out one of the most iconic rocks in Norway and just «shot» the fjord! 😅 It shows you that we should always keep our minds open for other ideas.

Brilliant, Nigel! An easy 'like' from me. Super helpful. And brilliant entries!

Wow it was great to see you edit my Neist point image! I didn't know about the warp correction in Photoshop and definitely struggled with the wonky lighthouse after straightening the horizon (lightroom distortion correction is a bit limited). I think it might have something to do with the lens profile correction thats pulling the image back into the centre (to counteract the barrel distortion of the Tamron 17-28mm).

@Lalix 😂☝️ ditto!

Genuinely thought he had messed up and was reading out the photo description, not your name.

Thank you! I learned a lot of different tips pertaining to Lightroom cropping and adjustments. Great photos. Truly, Linda - CREIGHTON Photography Montana

Thank you so much, I learned so much from this video. More of this please :)

Very informative and thought provoking video, cheers

Interesting as always Nigel and the power of cropping images within images is something I try to thing about when out shooting to maximise the MP's.

Brilliant , I only use Photoshop but found the advice extremely helpful. MORE PLEASE!

Thanks a lot Nigel. I hope you feel better. I like this type of video, you show us your way of seeing a photo. I’ll spend more time on my computer without doing anything only imaging what You ’ll do if you were near me...it’ll be a good game...thanks and have a good day.

Great video Nigel. Would love to see more of these!

So helpful to see how you think about editing steps.

Learned a whole lot! Thanks for doing this!

12:58 raw files like that where there’s so much details in the super bright areas🤤😩 so satisfying

Magnificent Nigel. One question, what specs you have in your iMac to edit your photos in raw format? What do you suggest.?

I have the top of the range iMac 2019 with 128Gb of Ram and it still struggles occasionally.

This video made me realize how much more I can do with my lightroom subscription fml I can do sooo much more with my photos! Thank you! Loved this video 🤩 I do have a question... does lightroom desktop has more features than lightroom mobile and lightroom online?

This was a really helpful video Nigel. Lots of videos out there dealing with the photography aspect but few dealing with the processing afterwards. Thanks and hope you do another soon.

Agreed, post processing is still in part a dark art of too little or too much, who knows?

So many useful editing tips! Thank you!!!

Really enjoy this sort of video; thank you Nigel!

There's something about that letterbox composition that really calms me down. I find doing that many times on my own images.

Good video. I’ll look at cropping my images more thoughtfully

Brilliant tutorial. Thank you!

Great video - really helpful!

Enjoyed the video with with before and after images. Just a minor comment - you forgot to change the first sentence in the description. I hope that your knee is getting better.

Many thanks (yet again) Nigel. Off to practice some of those skills now!

Love this. These are my favourite videos of yours!

Thank you so much for the pro tips. I am happy and got lucky that my photo as taken. Big fan from Nepal. Currently in South Korea. Thank you so much.

Help with Lightroom is always welcome, thank you Nigel.

I aways like watching these type of videos. Some how I either over edit or under edit. Or at least know something is not quite right and don't seem to be able to figure what I need to do to make things better (even taking breaks and coming back to images) Any tips? Or is expereince?

Great learning experience! Thanks!

Thanks. I always learn so much from your videos.

Great video as usual Nigel, and thanks to your link I just got a good deal on a new Lexar SD card.

Great insight into your editing philosophy

Very good vid, the editing had so many things I will do now.

Wonderful vid, appreciate the tips. Hope your leg is getting better!

Fantastic! just learned a lot more about the new features in Lightroom. Straight back to images I have been working on to improve them even more.

Brilliant Nigel.. What a fascinating video. Thank you.

Could you do a video to see which phone makes the best prints? I would suggest that the pixel 6 pro, the iPhone 13 and the Samsung 22 ultra are the main contenders? Thanks 👍🏻

@David Curley naah. I'm not that rich 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ray, are you going to provide the phones ? 😁😁

Oh wow Nigel. I just learned soooo much in only a few minutes

"cliff Sun" has to be the name of the raw file rather than the photographer surely! 😂

@Cliff Sun this made my day!

@Cliff Sun this has made my day! Nice image Cliff

@Cliff Sun Awesome image Cliff! Thanks for submitting it

@Nigel Danson you didn't make a mistake - that's actually my name!

Funnily enough that's actually me and that's my name! I didn't realise the irony of it either (in terms of the image I submitted) until your comment!

Great video! More like this!

Thanks for sharing, I've learned something. Hope your knee allows you to go places again !

Just awesome, tnx a lot. And guys have awesome images, just spectacular

I tend to use Adobe Camera Raw - are your Lightroom presets compatible with this platform?

No - unfortunately not

Need more content like this।

I noticed your crops are very freestyle and not using preset dimensions. Is that normally how you crop? Or was that due to time constraints? Just wondering how that relates to printing and framing your images after the fact.