Ron Leach

Today's time-saving post processing tutorial demonstrates how easy it is to enhance a photograph with one click by applying Lightroom's game-changing Adaptive presets in a selective manner, i.e. just where they're needed. The video lesson below is presented by the popular Adobe Lightroom YouTube channel that boasts 37M views, 358K subscribers, and almost 900 instructional videos.

Mastering your camera's Exposure (EV) Compensation feature is truly essential for capturing properly balanced photos in difficult light like when your scene includes prominent areas with both light and dark tones. Selecting a positive value brightens the shot while negative settings accomplishes the opposite in varying degrees.

Earlier this week we brought you an unconventional beginners guide to minimalist black-and-white photography, demonstrating how restraint and simplicity can deliver landscape images with greater impact. We're following up on that lesson today with an interesting video that applies these same principles to photographing birds and other wildlife subjects in the field.

Your camera's light metering system is one of the most important tools in photography, yet some shooters fail to understand how it works. So if your images often appear too bright or unnaturally dark, this tutorial from the Hamed Photography YouTube channel is just what you need to solve this frustrating dilemma.