Photography Tutorial · 2017-10-15
Unveiling the Post-Processing of a 500px Perfect-Score Work | Max Rive Landscape Course 1
You can spend thousands on gear, only to improve your image quality slightly.
Or you can spend a little on post-processing, yet make your photos leap qualitatively!
The course content has been fully recorded and saved permanently; after purchase, you can review it unlimited times. Click "Read More" at the end of the article to learn how Dutch landscape master Max Rive, who has over a million followers, post-processes his classic signature work.
Course Overview:
This course was personally designed by international master Max Rive, using his most popular work — "Persevere," one of the few perfect-score photos on 500px — as the example to demonstrate the post-processing process.
In a Qianliao live session, Thomas will explain in Chinese the techniques, tools, and the principles and thinking behind them used in the video, so you can truly master the exclusive skills of a top landscape photographer. Max Rive will demonstrate his operation steps in detail in the video included in the course.
The live content and video files have been fully recorded and permanently saved in the room, viewable unlimited times.
Click "Read More" to start learning!
Course demonstration images:
The adjusted result of the example image:
What will be demonstrated and explained in the course includes:
The complete post-processing thinking and techniques for this photo
Visual guidance within the frame
Creating a sense of three-dimensionality
Strengthening leading lines
Separating foreground, midground, and background
Exposure and color grading of the RAW file
Multi-version light-and-shadow control technique (with layers)
Multi-version light-and-shadow control technique (without layers)
Advanced dodging and burning technique
Advanced local color grading technique
The course is divided into theory explanation and hands-on demonstration. In the theory part, Thomas uses Qianliao slides and Chinese audio to explain in detail the retouching thinking, post-processing tools, and processing techniques.
In the hands-on part, Max personally recorded a video covering the entire operation process on this image, with Thomas providing detailed Chinese voiceover explanation.
About Max Rive and his works:
A top Dutch landscape photographer, skilled at using panoramas, light and shadow, foregrounds, and figures to highlight the grandeur of landscape scenes. He once won the IPA Landscape of the Year award and has over 1 million followers on social media platforms like Instagram and 500px.
The course's original price was $89, but after Thomas negotiated, Max agreed that the Chinese version costs only
79 yuan!
Max Rive's exclusive global offer: for the price of half a UV filter, you get the post-processing secrets of a top landscape master.