Chris Ha | Photography on Instagram: "Steal my Adobe Lightroom mask settings for this photo. I took this in a pottery village in Vietnam. The repetition of clay pots immediately caught my eye, but what made the frame work was waiting for the worker to step into the right pocket of light. I shot low to let the rows lead the eye and give the scene depth and rhythm. Masks are what made this edit come together. I used them to guide attention, lift the subject subtly, and control highlights and textu

Chris Ha | Photography on Instagram: "Steal my exact Lightroom masking settings for landscape photos - these are the adjustments I actually use. This lake photo from Vietnam looked calm in person, but the raw file felt a little flat. Instead of pushing global sliders, I used masking in Lightroom to work each part of the frame separately - the sky, the water, and the islands - so the image could build depth without looking over-edited. If you want more control in your landscape photography edits,