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Mark Denney
@markdenneyphoto
Mark Denney is a professional landscape and outdoor photographer based in North Carolina, United States. After a 17-year career in the corporate world, he took a radical turn in his life in July 2018 to dedicate himself completely to nature photography and content creation. He describes himself as a naturally anxious person who found landscape photography a form of "Zen meditation," a tool that allows him to practice patience and disconnect from the fast pace while waiting for the precise moment when the right light appears to capture an image.
As an educator and lecturer, his work focuses on teaching the narrative capacity of photographs, encouraging his followers not to obsess over the final result, but to appreciate the photographic experience in its entirety. He is widely recognized for his YouTube channel, where he shares editing tutorials, composition tips, and vlogs of his van trips under the banner "Cameras, Vans, & The Great Outdoors." In addition to his teaching at workshops and his weekly newsletter The Morning Blaze, he is an ambassador for brands such as NiSi Optics and f-stop Gear, and his content has been featured in prestigious publications such as Outdoor Photographer Magazine and ShutterBug.
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Tired of Paying Monthly to Edit Photos? Try This Instead
发布时间: 2026年9月23日 · 时长: 16 分 10 秒 · 25K 次播放
*👉Try DxO PhotoLab 10 FREE for 30 days, no credit card required* * *👉Save 15% with code DENNEY - new DxO customers only:* * Tired of paying monthly to edit your photos? After 11 years of using Lightroom, I’m exploring DxO PhotoLab 10, a photo editor you can buy without a subscription. I already use DxO PureRAW 6, but their full editing software is new territory for me.
Adobe Is Finally Listening to Us
发布时间: 2026年9月16日 · 时长: 19 分 3 秒 · 48K 次播放
*✅ Download my free RAW editing guide here: I’ve wanted Adobe to add something like this for years. Having used the Orton effect for a long time, I was curious to see how the new Glow tool in Adobe Camera Raw would compare to my usual approach. After a couple of weeks of testing, there’s a lot I like and a few things I wish Adobe had done differently.
The Most Addictive Photography Advice I Wish I'd Ignored
发布时间: 2026年9月9日 · 时长: 9 分 20 秒 · 46K 次播放
Manual mode is one of the first camera settings photographers are told they must master, and for years, I believed using anything else was taking a shortcut. In this video, I explain how that advice became a habit and why Manual mode isn’t always the best choice. *👉 Download my free Camera Settings Guide: I’ll walk through when I use Manual mode, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Auto ISO, along with how I…
I Never Edit in Lightroom Alone
发布时间: 2026年9月2日 · 时长: 11 分 10 秒 · 34K 次播放
*👉 Download my FREE Complete RAW Editing Guide: After last week’s video about the changes to Luminar, I received a ton question I get almost every time I make a video using something other than Lightroom: Did I switch? Lightroom is still my main photo editor, but I never edit an entire photograph in Lightroom alone. On average, every image I finish passes through five different editing programs.
Luminar Neo Is Officially Gone — Here’s What Replaced It
发布时间: 2026年8月26日 · 时长: 12 分 54 秒 · 46K 次播放
*👉 GET AN EXTRA 10% OFF LUMINAR* *CODE: MARKDENNEY* ⏳ Existing Luminar users: Pre-order the upcoming upgrade by *August 31* at the lowest upgrade price of the year. Luminar Neo is officially gone, but the software isn’t. Luminar Neo has become simply Luminar, bringing everything together under one unified brand.
Every Photographer Needs a Camera They Don’t Need
发布时间: 2026年8月19日 · 时长: 13 分 13 秒 · 23K 次播放
*👉 Spend less time fighting your camera and more time making photographs. Download my FREE Camera Setup Guide for the settings I use to simplify my landscape photography workflow: On paper, the Fujifilm X100VI loses to my Nikon Z8 in almost every measurable category. It has a smaller sensor, one fixed lens, less flexibility, and doesn’t fill an obvious gap in my professional landscape photography setup.
Lightroom Can Finally Do This
发布时间: 2026年8月12日 · 时长: 11 分 43 秒 · 27K 次播放
Go to to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. *🎁 Stop Guessing Your Way Through Every Edit* Download my FREE RAW Editing Guide and follow the complete start-to-finish workflow I use to decide what to adjust, what to leave alone, and when an edit is finished: Adobe’s August Lightroom update finally addresses one of its most annoying masking problems: hard, unnatural edges that can…
This Tiny Camera Fixed Something I Broke
发布时间: 2026年8月5日 · 时长: 12 分 45 秒 · 54K 次播放
*Go to to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.* *📸 Free 2026 Photo Editing Guide: Before you move a single slider, follow this simple workflow to start every edit with a plan. Download it free here: Four years ago, I tested the Fuji X100V, enjoyed every minute with it, and then sent it back because I couldn’t figure out where it fit into my photography. I regretted that decision…
This Popular Focus Setting Makes Photography Harder
发布时间: 2026年7月29日 · 时长: 9 分 56 秒 · 15K 次播放
*👉 Stop fighting your camera. Download my free Camera Setup Guide and use the settings I rely on to simplify my workflow and spend more time making photographs. One of the most popular autofocus settings in landscape photography may actually be making the entire process more difficult than it needs to be.
Pro vs Beginner: The Same RAW Photo
发布时间: 2026年7月22日 · 时长: 14 分 51 秒 · 15K 次播放
Go to to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. *Learn how I approach editing my RAW photos from start to finish in my free RAW Editing Guide:* * Have you ever looked back at an old photo edit and thought, “What was I thinking?” In this video, I revisit a landscape photo I edited nearly seven years ago, compare it to the original RAW file, and re-edit it from scratch using the way I…
One Thing Changed How I Edit Every Photo
发布时间: 2026年7月15日 · 时长: 11 分 28 秒 · 23K 次播放
Go to to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. *📸 Free 2026 Photo Editing Guide: Before you move a single slider, follow this simple workflow to start every edit with a plan.* *Download it free here: After editing thousands of landscape photos over the last decade, I’ve realized the biggest improvement in my photography had very little to do with Lightroom itself. It came from…
"Lightroom" Couldn’t Do This - Until Now
发布时间: 2026年7月8日 · 时长: 11 分 14 秒 · 48K 次播放
*Use this link to get $25 off your PPA membership today! About a month ago, Adobe added two new editing features, and I made a video covering both of them. At the time, I thought one of those features was the clear winner.
Most Landscape Photographers Focus on the Wrong Things
发布时间: 2026年7月1日 · 时长: 11 分 49 秒 · 12K 次播放
*🎨FREE Lightroom Colors Course🌟* *Learn the exact color workflow I use to create natural, vibrant landscape photos in Lightroom.* *Get Instant Access → Over the last 10 years, there are a lot of things I’ve stopped caring about as a landscape photographer. Not because they don’t matter, but because I’ve realized we often spend too much time focusing on the wrong things. In this video, I share the 10 things I no…
Don’t Press The Shutter Until You Check This
发布时间: 2026年6月24日 · 时长: 15 分 7 秒 · 14K 次播放
Go to to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. *✅ Avoid The Small Mistakes That Ruin Great Photos — Download My Free 10-Second Checklist:* * Have you ever gotten home from a shoot, opened a photo you were excited about, and immediately spotted something you should have seen in the field? A distraction near the edge of the frame, a missed focus point, or a composition that could…
Photography Rules I Followed for Too Long
发布时间: 2026年6月17日 · 时长: 13 分 32 秒 · 15K 次播放
*Want sharper landscape photos? Download my Free Focus Stacking Guide* *👉 When I first started learning landscape photography, there were a handful of rules I never questioned. I followed them because they were repeated so often by photographers I respected that I simply assumed they had to be true.
I Ignored This RAW Editing Step for Years
发布时间: 2026年6月10日 · 时长: 14 分 2 秒 · 32K 次播放
👉 Check out DxO PureRAW 6 and save 15% with discount code DENNEY I've heard photographers talk about DxO PureRAW for years, but I never really understood what it did or why so many people used it. As someone who does almost all of my editing in Lightroom and Photoshop, I've never been interested in adding extra software to my workflow unless there was a clear benefit. So over the last few weeks, I decided to test…
I Think We Got Back Button Focus Wrong
发布时间: 2026年6月3日 · 时长: 9 分 12 秒 · 28K 次播放
Go to to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. *👉 Download my FREE Camera Setup Guide and see how I actually configure my camera in the field for landscape photography: Back button focus has become one of the most recommended camera settings in photography, especially for landscape photographers. But after using it for years, I started wondering whether I was using it because it…
“Lightroom” Finally Added This
发布时间: 2026年5月27日 · 时长: 12 分 8 秒 · 64K 次播放
Go to to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. *Learn how I approach editing my RAW photos from start to finish in my free RAW Editing Guide:* * Lightroom masking has come a long way over the past few years, but there has still been a few limitations that always felt just slightly incomplete… especially when it came to shaping color inside local adjustments and creating smoother…
You Slowly Stop Seeing This
发布时间: 2026年5月20日 · 时长: 9 分 6 秒 · 13K 次播放
*Learn how I approach editing subtle light, atmosphere, and mood in my free RAW Editing Guide:* * After spending the last few weeks photographing the massive peaks and dramatic light of Patagonia, I found myself unexpectedly drawn to something completely different back in the Great Smoky Mountains. Quiet fog drifting through trees. Small moments most photographers would probably walk right past.
