Editing in Lightroom for Architectural Photography

Through the power of unique perspectives and complementary editing, you’re able to create striking abstract compositions from even the most everyday sights. Award-winning photographer Tobi Shonibare, best known as Tobi Shinobi, enhances his photographs using editing techniques to achieve thought-provoking artwork with an original perspective. His recognizable style, which he describes as ‘simply complex’ has led him to work with clients including Nike, Apple, and Bose. Tobi is also a Creative Strategist at TikTok and a Lightroom ambassador.

In this course, he teaches you how to enhance your architectural photography in Lightroom to give your images a fresh, eye-catching aesthetic. Learn the fundamentals of Lightroom and discover editing techniques to play with angles, tone, texture, and color. Use your original perspective to bring life to the ordinary.

Get to know photographer Tobi Shonibare, best known as Tobi Shinobi. He discusses what led him to become a photographer, the concepts behind his photographing style, and the influences that have helped shape his style.

Tobi teaches you how to use Lightroom. Discover why he uses it, and the basics of the software. Tobi takes you through each feature and technique as you explore Lightroom’s capabilities for architectural photography, including perspective correction, light, curves, color grading, sharpening, and more.

Learn how to edit a low-angle shot, first by focusing on the technical and compositional elements such as length, angles, and lighting. Then, move onto the artistic aspects of your image to enhance the aesthetics. Dive into ways to make your image more unique, working with elements such as shade, tone, and color. Next, follow the same editing process with your frontal-view image with a focus on principles like drawing the viewer to the main focus, managing distortion, mood, patterns, and textures.

Discover Tobi’s tips for sharing your work on social media. First look at Instagram specifically, understanding how to determine what photos work for your feed and how to use the platform to get your work seen. Tobi then explores the different social media channels. See how to find the one that works best for your work and how to be creative with your content.

Edit two of your architectural photographs using Lightroom: one should be a low-angle shot looking up, and the other a frontal view with a vanishing point.

This course is for those who are interested in photography and in refreshing the look of their architectural shots.

To take this course, you need a device with Lightroom installed and your own architectural photographs to edit.