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The Split Field Filter - ON1 Photo RAW 2026
The Split Field Filter - ON1 Photo RAW 2026

ON1 Photo RAW 2026 adds a Split Field filter that mimics the classic split-diopter look without relying on layers. In this tutorial, I walk through the controls and show how it performs on different types of landscape scenes so you know when — and how — to use it effectively.

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ON1Scott DavenportOctober 1, 2025Tutorial, Filter School, Effects, Photo RAWComment
Understand Your Histogram For Better Photo Edits
Understand Your Histogram For Better Photo Edits

The histogram isn’t just a technical chart—it’s a storyteller’s map. When you understand how each slider connects to specific tonal regions, you gain precise control over light and mood in your photos.

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LightroomScott DavenportSeptember 27, 2025TutorialComment
Make Roads Stand Out in Desert Landscapes
Make Roads Stand Out in Desert Landscapes

Want to make a desert road stand out in your photo? Learn how to use Lightroom’s masking tools to enhance leading lines and guide the viewer’s eye deeper into the scene.

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LightroomScott DavenportSeptember 23, 2025TutorialComment
Enhancing Coastal Mist with Lightroom Masking Tools
Enhancing Coastal Mist with Lightroom Masking Tools

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Lightroom’s masking tools to selectively target the mist in your photo, giving it more presence and definition against the rugged coastline.

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LightroomScott DavenportSeptember 18, 2025TutorialComment
Balancing Light In A Backlit Sunset
Balancing Light In A Backlit Sunset

In this tutorial, I walk you through a series of masking techniques in Lightroom to tame the exposure challenges of a mountain sunset scene.

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LightroomScott DavenportSeptember 15, 2025TutorialComment
New Video Course! Mastering Light & Shadow In Lightroom
New Video Course! Mastering Light & Shadow In Lightroom

Light shapes your story, and Lightroom gives you the tools to mold it. Mastering Light & Shadow will teach you into how to read the light in your photos, control it with intention, and shape it to match the story you want to tell.

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Lightroom, ProductScott DavenportSeptember 15, 2025Tutorial, VideoComment
From Flat to Powerful: Editing A Backlit Tree Photo
From Flat to Powerful: Editing A Backlit Tree Photo

Learn how to transform a flat, backlit photo into a striking, powerful image by shaping light and shadow. In this live edit, I’ll show you how to use Lightroom’s masking tools—and why selective brightening and darkening makes all the difference.

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LightroomScott DavenportSeptember 11, 2025TutorialComment
The Journey of a Photo: Shaping Light & Shadow
The Journey of a Photo: Shaping Light & Shadow

A handful of local adjustments seemed enough to guide the eye toward a forgotten doorway—until curiosity pushed the edit further. Join me as I shape light and shadow, exploring “what if” moments that transformed the mood of this abandoned whaling station.

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Quick Tip, LightroomScott DavenportSeptember 6, 2025TutorialComment
Shaping the Story: Controlling Light & Shadow with Lightroom
Shaping the Story: Controlling Light & Shadow with Lightroom

When you use a series of masks to shape light and shadow, you control the visual narrative of your photo. In this quick tutorial, I’ll show a the series of small changes that guides the viewer to a village at the valley floor of Sacred Valley, Peru.

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LightroomScott DavenportAugust 30, 2025TutorialComment
Control The Light, Own The Narrative
Control The Light, Own The Narrative

When you take command of light in your edits, you take command of the story your image tells.

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Lightroom, Quick TipScott DavenportAugust 23, 2025TutorialComment
Revisiting a 10-Year Old Photo: How My Editing Evolved
Revisiting a 10-Year Old Photo: How My Editing Evolved

Revisit a 10-year-old photo with me and see how much can change when you focus on visual storytelling over time. By reshaping light and refining tone, you’ll see how an image becomes more natural, stronger, and more compelling with a more mature vision.

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Lightroom, Quick TipScott DavenportAugust 16, 2025TutorialComment
Live Edit: High Key Black & White
Live Edit: High Key Black & White

An unscripted black and white edit, shaping a foggy morning of boats into a high key, dreamlike scene. From raw frame to final image, it’s all about light, mood, and letting the photograph lead the way.

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Quick Tip, LightroomScott DavenportAugust 9, 2025Tutorial, Live EditComment
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Scott Davenport is a landscape photographer and photo educator and based in San Diego, California. He leads photo workshops, writes photo books, hosts podcasts, makes tutorial videos, and feels weird referring to himself in the 3rd person.

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