If you spend all day outdoors photographing amazing waterfall scenes, you can probably come home with some amazing photographs. But, how do you take the great shots from the field and make them even better? Post-processing is a tool nearly all photographers use to increase the quality of their work. In this tutorial, I’ll take you into my computer screen to show you how I use Adobe Lightroom to simply enhance a waterfall image I shot. The photo we’ll go through consists of everything we discussed in this tutorial to give you the best instruction on how to use these post-processing techniques yourself.
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