Video: How to create a soft, high-key landscape edit in Lightroom

If you're after a bright, airy landscape look, this great video by photographer Christian Möhrle demonstrates a simple Lightroom workflow to achieve it, while overcoming the vignetting caused by stacking a polarising filter with an ND filter on a wide-angle lens.

The edit begins with a crop to remove the dark corners, followed by Lightroom's AI-powered removal tool to clean up distractions.

Möhrle then switches from the Adobe Landscape profile to Adobe Standard for a softer starting point before reducing highlights to recover colour in bright areas.

From there, he uses masks to fine-tune the foreground and sky, applies subtle tone curve adjustments to introduce warmer colours, and refines hues with the Colour Mixer and Colour Grading panels. He finishes with Lightroom's Calibration controls for a richer colour palette and a carefully masked sharpening pass to preserve smooth areas while enhancing detail.

You can see more of Christian's great videos on YouTube.