r/postprocessing • u/jartskater • 1d ago

Feedback on first attempt at LR editing

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Hello,

I've recently got into photography and purchased a Nikon Z50ii with the dual lens kit. I'm still experimenting with the camera settings and composition, but I am confident of getting pretty close in full manual mode by now and I'm concentrating a lot on LR editing. I am trying to achieve a pretty natural look in my photos. My main goal rn is to not get photos that look like they've been shot on iPhone and edited in apple photos (if that makes any sense). I've attached a before and after of one of my first attempts at this. The image is not incredible (in composition mainly) as I didn't yet have an opportunity to go and just shoot. Any feedback is much appreciated.

Thank you!

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u/jartskater 1d ago

I should mention I haven't yet experimented too much with color grading/mixing. I only tried to get some of the yellows (which are predominant) to not be too saturated and to get the sky to look a bit warmer

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u/isulven_ 1d ago

Very nice color grading and lightening the photo

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u/smokeybiker 1d ago

Assuming the first picture is the after then it is quite nice

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u/Winter_Match1194 1d ago

First tasteful process I’ve seen on here in eons.