You did two things here in the first five minutes that changed my life forever: match the exposures of the brightest and darkest photos, and then bring down the highlights. Yeah, that's the sound of my mind being completely blown. I just edited one photo in 30 seconds when it properly would have taken me 20 minutes to properly cut around a stinking window frame.
You obviously know what you're doing. As far as your teaching technique I found it long winded and difficult to follow even though I have watched many tutorials regarding masking and correction. I will persist with trying to follow along and trying a few examples of my own. Your knowledge is worth persisting and watching over a few times to fully understand what you are trying to explain. I still appreciate your sharing of your knowledge for free. Thank you.
I'm of a similar opinion. Out of all the videos I've watched on this topic this one is the best, but he is very long-winded and difficult to follow at times (very sorry Hunter!). Even after replaying I really didn't understand why he put certain steps in the video (e.g. black and white layer could have been skipped as it wasn't connected with the video title. Is that right?). But overall, it was a good effort and I am going to persist with it too as I think it is pushing people in the right direction. Personally I wish I could afford a tutor to show me this stuff, but after months of coronavirus and limited work opportunities my bank account is looking pretty grim :( Once again, definitely one of the better videos on RU-vid for this subject (even though it was made way back in 2018!!). It gets a thumbs up from me.
Can you please do a basic/faster version of this? I would like to incorporate blending exposures in my photos but time is always of the essence. I learned a lot here though so great job!
Great video. Thanks for sharing. It’s a very interesting way to fine tune luminosity mask. I’ll use this technique. I know you were rushing through the video but I would cut a few paths and rather than use a brush I would use the gradient tool. This may avoid the “smoke damaged” look that one viewer described. Really appreciate you taking the time to share.
Too much unnecessary work. The same could be accomplished by using more than 3 shots of bracketing. The window frames have dark blotches from over painting. Scripting or outlining your thoughts would be a good idea for less confusion for you and the viewer.
I love this tutorial because it’s full of tricks that could be handy as part of any edit. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a step by step workflow. Hunter- you’re a flipping PS black belt. Thanks keep it up!
Thank you for the thorough tutorial. There's a more accurate/easier way to correct the perspective. Filter > Camera Raw Filter > Transform Tool. There are multiple options on the right side. You can correct the perspective horizontally, vertically, both, or manually.
Good effort but four minutes in I'm asking myself the same question. Would recommend condensing this video, removing unnecessary stuff, setting out some clear steps, and repackaging into a 5-8 minute video.
@@HunterLomayesva Even needs to learn how to use RU-vid's playback speed feature. Found the video great just the way it is, thanks for sharing man, keep it up!
What an informative tutorial. Thanks for sharing your skills. I know it is time consuming, but the quality is what keeps the clients ringing the phone. I sub out all of my post and still end up spending an incredible amount of time in post trying to improve what my editing team has done. We're not yet perfect but are average revenue per customer trend shows that the extra time is definitely worth taking in the long run.
Some great tips in here, thanks for putting this up. Will definitely return to this when I’m working on a straight natural light shot. Typically use flash and blend several shots, but could integrate some of this workflow.
Thanks for the vid. An interesting way of working with luminosity masks. The main issue for me is that there's the 'smoke damage' look in the whites, particularly around the windows, that you get with HDR.
Would it be possible for to (some day) remake this video? This is by far the best instruction on how to blend photos but there is (sorry to be blunt here) but far too much superfluous and other editing techniques here. At this point in time we need to speed a lot of time replaying parts to get the true gold nuggets (of which there are a lot). If you concentrated just on the blending part only, I'm sure this would be a killer video that beginners like me are searching far.
I got a little lost when you apply that curves layer so then you make a selection in the RGB layer, didn't get a "why". And also, I think some one already commented this, but about the time, I feel it is a little too long if you have to give the client 20 photos, for an average of 300/400 dollars the whole job. Would it work using actions? or it's hard to use same actions for different photos?? It's always useful to watch this tutorials, even if it is not the most conveniente workflow, it's always good to learn new things!! so, thanks!
Ok obvious question, but have you tried just blending the exposures in Lightroom and upping the shadows and lowering the highlights, then bringing in the whites and blacks? Seems like it'd be a much faster way to get very similar results?
As always, great tutorial mate! Keep them coming! There's only one little mistake, you forgot to invert sharpening mask, so it sharped everything but the edges, instead only edges.
Photographers sometimes spend hours adjusting an image in post and can spend hours shooting the interior, this is standard practice. He's also using 3 bracketed images which is the absolute minimum to get a good result. Real finicky photographers will have 15 images with different light painting and exposures to play with.
what he did here is pretty basic luminosity masking - nothing too crazy. You should see what happens once you start messing around with light painting, scene re-lighting, complete cosmetic makeover of an image, etc. You can easily spend half a day on any given image. Having said that, I do recognize that architectural photography isn't for everyone. There are however many clients out there who require this level of photographer's skill and dedication.
So assuming you can get this down to 5 minutes... if you have to deliver 30 photos for a single property you’re looking at 2 hours just in editing one property?
There are some dirty looking tones in the interior, especially around the windows. This could be fixed in this image with brush work and selections, but it is more complex retouching than what has been done so far. Although not present in this example, there are cases where the lighter exposures exhibit noticeable flare or exposure overload around the windows and other very bright areas, which sometimes is not susceptible to retouching. Being able to incorporate some supplementary lighting will solve these problems and make retouching easier in general. However, it does mean some more work on site.
Theres a few little things that are ight but overall the real estate game is at a point were it's so oversaturated u need speed & affordablabilty so a work Flow like this is not good for anyone knocking out real full time #s. 30 images per home & most big shots are offering 24 turn arounds for serious shooters I say keep searching vids. But thanks for the effort.
Hunter , When you "intensify"" the effect when you are doing the yellow correction at about 20:00, where are you bringing up that levels window from? I'm needing to intensify also, but don't see the adjustment. I'm taking it its not a straight Levels adjust on a mask, but on the color range selection?
It took me a minute to get that one too... Click on the mask, then hit CTL/CMD L. The keystroke is actually "subtitled" right there, I missed it several times.
Great tutorial but when you have 40 images per property to shoot , 3 properties per day and in contract to hand over all work the following moring not sure if the work flow will work . good video though
The content is amazing! Thank you very mcuh for share it with us. Just a little advise if you let me: This video is like gold for me. Why didn´t you create an audience uploading some more of this content and then you create an online school in this subject? Would be great! I would pay! Anways... in the minute 8:20 what is your intention? Which criteria do you follow for go darker of brighter in each colour? and why? Appreciate your response and keep uploading this great kind of stuff!
adds contrast between colours in black and white mode so it can be used as a mask. For a bracket with dark out of the window exposure he wants them to be white, and for bracket with foreground exposed, he wants the out of the window to be black. Once you have this differentiation, you turn it into mask and paint in for softness
at the 20 min mark you are pressing a button to bring up the levels. What are you pressing? You didn't show it with the blues either..... Amazing tutorial. Thanks
This is a great video! Having a little trouble, though. When I get to the part where you "paint" the highlights, nothing is happening for me. I'm sure I'm missing something small.
could someone explain to me the sharpen mask, and the unsharpen effect on it to sharpen the image? I though the unsharpen on the mast was increasing the radius..?
Count how many times you say ... "We're going to go ahead and " hopefully you have replaced that with something much shorter. Like... "Let's..." open the panel and move the slider.
Hi, Hunter i think this is the best and faster technique you have on your chanel, but can you update it ? becouse i see in you newst video you use lumenzia wich can speed up editing !, thanks !
I hope they just make Photoshop a panel in Lightroom but drastically change it.. I honestly hate working in Photoshop ever since I started using light room.. or like each layer in Photoshop should have its own Lightroom.. going up to the menu to pick out individual style changes is old school..
Hunter, How do you ultimately decide which technique you are going to use on every independent shoot... is it based off the amount of window lighting / proper room exposure or just personal choice?
Flash is superior for 90% of things but I feel like it's good to have backup techniques in the event you show up and lights are broke, batteries are dead, etc.
I think you could have done a better job explaining the steps, and their effects. All in all still good info in there, could have been just a lot better with a tiny info more.
normally a tutorial teaches you something but he is super confused or no idea what the hell is he doing better don't waste your time! Best option is just photomerge and make selection to the sky area and place the middle exposure image!
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I know it’s complicated and I honestly wouldn’t use this method for real estate either but there’s some nuggets of neat info in here in case you were having a hard time trying to blend a particular image.
@@HunterLomayesva not trying to be mean. I have a lot of experience shooting real estate and a bunch of other things, and I was just browsing around some videos to see if there are any better techniques out there. Not sure what you did, or why, I saw you do something and it really threw me off, skipped to the end and it didn't look right.
@@michaelfrymus Yeah. I'm not very proud of the end result here. I made a video pretty recently that is slightly better. I'd check it out on my channel. Lots of neat tricks in that video. 🙂
