How to Know When to Stop Editing Your Landscape Photos (Before You Ruin Them)

How to Know When to Stop Editing Your Landscape Photos (Before You Ruin Them)

There’s a particular kind of regret that comes from over-editing a good image. You start with something honest, something that captured a real moment of light, and you slowly push it into something artificial. I’ve done it more times than I care to admit. After twenty years of shooting landscapes professionally, I still sometimes catch myself reaching for sliders that don’t need to be touched. Knowing when to stop is genuinely one of the hardest skills to develop, and almost nobody teaches it directly.