Great to see new products coming out. For me the darkness on the back wall in Neo just screamed bad hdr merge. I liked the outside and the left side of the photo, but not that dark artifact which would take a fair bit of time to even out.
Very interesting! I have been using Luminar 4 for a few years and shooting more landscapes lately so the tools are unbeatable but very impressed with some of these new features and the HDR capes especially as someone who’d like to dabble in real estate photography in the near future
Hey Caitlin! Thanks so much for your insight. Did you use Lightroom or photoshop before? Yeah, some of the other extensions coming out are super interesting too. Thanks for watching!
So far it's been really nice for my drone photos, making them more sharper and reducing noise so it's a keeper for that. However for real estate HDR merging, Neo makes the interior look too grungy and there's dark halo around the windows I don't want to spend too much time editing.
So far I have found some utility with Luminar Neo and the HDR extension. I really like the relight function, to bring light to the areas in a photo that I could not get lit properly. The HDR extension is perfect for exterior HDR photos, and like you pointed out, there isn't much adjusting needed after the merge. My only issue is the lack of batch processing, if I was to shoot the whole property in brackets it would take forever to process the images solely through Luminar. If they add this function I would probably lean more into Luminar Neo, as of right now I use it as a supplement to Lrc and photoshop for some niche tweaks and 6 or so HDR exterior shots per project. Great video!
Hey Perry! Thanks for your insight. Exactly what I was thinking, great results of a single merge but I can’t imagine doing a whole property, let alone multiple every week. That would be such a great feature though! Thanks for watching
I just picked up Luminar Neo last week and learning on the fly. I love this video regarding merging, it's something I want to learn how to do, as well as the many other tools to be more creative. Do you have Luminar for beginners videos? I do have LR but it's a very old version. Right now I'm not into paying an annual fee to subscribe to LR, the reason I picked up Luminar Neo. Thanks for your time and help.
Hey David! Glad it was helpful. As of now, this is the only video I've done with Luminar. I still use Lightroom over anything else, old habits die hard I guess? Haha. I do plan on exploring their products more and make more videos with them. Thanks for watching!
Yeah, I agree. Still using LR because of that. And even though these results were pretty nice, I feel like you still have more control in LR even if it takes a little bit more work. I think this is nicer for like landscape images or something. Thanks for watching!
I love Luminar for exteriors, but for interiors not so much. I really wanted the new Luminar HDR feature to enhance my workflow but the results you are getting probably wouldn't be accepted in the market I work in. Enfuse with LR still wins the day for me (especially for batch processing).
Hey Joel! Thanks for your input, appreciate it! Curious on where you primarily do work in? Yes, we’re still using LR as well, especially for batch processing. Thanks for watching!
Hey Najmin, same!! I totally feel that. Same reason why I haven’t tried out other video editing programs like final cut and such. Thanks for watching, appreciate the feedback!
Thanks so much! The right way would’ve been to wait for it to stop and not deal with it at all. 😆 But I usually I use the underexposed shot that had a faster shutter so the fan didn’t have motion blur.
Luminar Neo made editing tolerable, even fun again. Adobe products are always changing and make things so much more difficult and tedious than it needs to be.
@@AndreiRestrepo Luminar Neo is the only software I use. I used to use PS for portraits but I could never find a solution to the mystery of masks and it made me insane with frustration! I still do portraits but I switched to Luminar to avoid being committed and when I started real estate photography, it was so much easier to make corrections and the tutorials were much easier to follow. The AI doesn't always give you the look you want but it's a big help. Screw Adobe! I love Luminar!
Andrei, thanks for the info. I just tried out Luminar Neo with the HDR plug-in and have never been so dissatisfied with a software product. These guys definitely are good marketers, because there is ZERO reason to pay at least $99/year for this garbage. If you’re already using Lightroom Classic for your professional workflow and HDR merging, keep doin’ what you’re doin’ … the workflow of Neo blows, my Nikon in-camera lens corrections and profile were stripped out, so it created a distorted, vignetted photo and made a crappy HDR from that.
Hey man! Wow, sorry to hear that! It definitely it a strange workflow, haven’t gotten used to it and still using LR. Thanks for sharing your feedback, and for watching!
I’m not sure how they are structured now since this video is a bit older! It’s honestly a toss up between Lightroom and Luminar IMO, I’d simply try both out and see which is a good fit for you, thanks for watching!
. Im new to luminar Neo. Im having a problem when I edit my photo and export, my photos are like thunb nails, if I try to open them they are small and are blurry if i enlarge them. I think you had said something about that before but I dont remember what. would love if you could tell me what im doing wrong. Thank a lot .
Hey Terry! Yeah, I was definitely running into that issue. I exported this photo a few times like that and was so confused until it finally exported at full res. It seemed to be a loading problem. Like maybe too many effects so it was previewing a low res version and then exporting that vs the full photo. While I was trying to figure it out, it randomly loaded while sitting in the app. Unfortunately I don’t have a perfect workaround at this time. Thanks for watching!
hmm. I just bought luminar and the HDR. I'm disappointed. I shoot most of my HDRs handheld, (the stuff I do you don't have time for a tripod). Luminar doesn't seem to autoalign, for example I photographed some writings, and lightroom corrected it perfectly, however Luminar had two sets of writing where I had slightly moved. also, YES it looks more even in Luminar, BUT, in Lightroom you are working with DNG still and can still use cameras profiles, which is huge in my workflow using Luts saved at camera profiles. You get different results with luminar. It's kinda like how Capture 1 looks "better" straight out of camera, but it's not actually "correct". Any tips on getting them aligned in luminar? Or would it just be easier to work in LR and get a refund for luminar?
Hey Ron! Interesting, I actually haven’t tried that out! I just wish there was a way to batch merge, like Lightroom. Have to dive in the see if there’s a way, but interested in trying out what you mentioned!
its still the same i will return the product. i thought this will batch process i will follow your LR process which is very informative :) thank you @@AndreiRestrepo
Hey Ricardo! Unfortunately no, those only work in Lightroom. Not sure how to even create presets in this program yet. Would be nice if they added real estate presets on their end since they have presets built in for practically everything else. Thanks for watching!
@@AndreiRestrepo What a pity Andrei, i was ready to buy your products for my real estate prhotography business. Perhaps i should just stick to lightroom.
Hey Shelly! A square sun? No additional lighting, just five bracket HDR blending. You can’t really use continuous lighting for real estate, just not powerful enough. You would use at least one or multiple flashes. Thanks for watching!
@@AndreiRestrepo I can’t wait to try this !!! I’ve been using the Square Sun Which lights a room up like no other. (B&H Photo) But it’s heavy ! And I photograph 2 to 3 houses a day and I’ve been searching for something! (Lighter, easier and faster) Thank you for making your video!!!!!
Oh awesome! I had never heard of that, but yeah this method is a lot faster especially when you’re doing volume like that. Curious on seeing what your results look like using that, show me if you don’t mind!
