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The Journey Continues: Discovering Hidden Gems
Landscape photographer Elia Locardi is back with a new tutorial that delves into many of Japan’s lesser-known gems. Part educational video and part travel guide, Photographing the World highlights Elia's most effective shooting and editing techniques against the stunning backdrop of Japan's most beautiful sites. As he explores these lesser-known landscapes and cityscape locations, you’ll witness how a seasoned photographer approaches new and exotic scenes for the first time. While this tutorial builds on his previous Photographing the World: Japan series, this latest installment introduces unique techniques and challenges designed to elevate your landscape photography.


The Journey Continues: Discovering Hidden Gems
Landscape photographer Elia Locardi is back with a new tutorial that delves into many of Japan’s lesser-known gems. Part educational video and part travel guide, Photographing the World highlights Elia's most effective shooting and editing techniques against the stunning backdrop of Japan's most beautiful sites. As he explores these lesser-known landscapes and cityscape locations, you’ll witness how a seasoned photographer approaches new and exotic scenes for the first time. While this tutorial builds on his previous Photographing the World: Japan series, this latest installment introduces unique techniques and challenges designed to elevate your landscape photography.

The Hidden Gems in Japan
One of the greatest challenges any landscape photographer faces is finding unique locations that are both worthy of being photographed and not overly crowded with hundreds of tourists fighting for the same image. Elia Locardi has traveled throughout Japan dozens of times and has captured some of the most iconic landscapes the country has to offer, but for this tutorial, Elia wanted to mix it up and showcase some of the lesser-known locations. From the tranquil Wakayama gardens to the Daigo-ji Shingon Buddhist temple in Fushimi-ku to the boulder-clad beaches of Miho no Matsubara in Shizuoka, the locations in this tutorial are very different from the typical spots Elia has visited. In fact, during the filming of this tutorial, Elia visits many of these locations for the very first time himself.


What's Included in this Digital Download

• 11 unique video lessons (4K high-def videos files that you can stream on any device)
• Accompanying raw files and companion software catalogs to practice your own edits
• An overview of Elia's Latest Gear
• Access to Elia's private Photographing the World Facebook Group
• 6-month License of Radiant Photo Software
• New Behind the Scenes Episodes of the Making of PTW Japan
• Access to discounts on many of Elia's favorite editing software, tools, and services

10+ Hours of Brand New Education
What makes the Photographing the World series truly unique is that you get an authentic glimpse into Elia's on-location experiences. You'll witness the highs and lows—the challenges, unexpected moments, and even the occasional setbacks! Each location brings its own set of trials, allowing you to see how Elia navigates his entire process from start to finish to capture the perfect shot. His aim is to not only showcase ideal conditions but also to provide a realistic perspective on the obstacles you might encounter in similar scenarios. By the end of this 10-hour masterclass, you’ll be inspired to enhance your landscape photography skills and make the most of every opportunity that arises.

Some of the many topics covered in this tutorial include:

• Capturing the "blue hour"
• Focus stacking images to expand depth of field and focus
• Selectively enhancing fall colors
• Luminosity masking and selective dodging/burning in Adobe Lightroom Classic
• Compound masking in Adobe Lightroom Classic and Adobe Photoshop
• Using camera profiles and LUTs
• Four-point perspective correction in Adobe Photoshop
• Combining day and night images (Elia Locardi’s signature time-blending technique)
• Adding micro-contrast to areas of skies to maximize visual leading lines
• Complex focus stacking techniques using Adobe Photoshop and Helicon Focus
• Finding the perfect long-exposure compositing and settings
• Using various solid and graduated neutral density filters
• Using a polarizer camera filter to reduce harsh lighting during daytime shoots
• Time blending and advanced layer stacking modes
• Smart Objects and using various modes and statistics
• Using 3rd Party Software: Radiant Photo, DxO Pure Raw, Helicon Focus, etc

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