I'm back with some experience to share! I just completed a residential property shoot where I used 5-shot brackets and a flash shot for each photo. When I brought the compiled bracket shot and flash into Photoshop, I tried a 50/50 Luminosity blend then compared it to the Color mode process you showed here. In every shot, the Color mode looked better! It provides a smooth, even blend! I'm sold on this workflow! I also really like the way you used the duplicated ambient and flash layers to make the ceiling color cast corrections (using the ambient that you tweaked in Lightroom), and the duplicate flash layer that you put into Darken Mode in Photoshop to tweak the windows. I'm considering what steps I can put into a Photoshop Action to set up the layers for quick editing. Thanks again, Joe, for your continued experimentation and sharing of your findings! Your ideas are making a direct impact upon my productivity!
Great tip with the custom setting (which I've never really used in 20 years!) I do similar 'hybrid' technique, I figured I may as well do a bracket + flash just in case, and it is awkward to keep turning flash on and off to not fire etc. Geometric ceiling trick also handy
you have the mad science lab of RE photography channels - I like that you have so many tricks in the bag.
I'm back with some experience to share! I just completed a residential property shoot where I used 5-shot brackets and a flash shot for each photo. When I brought the compiled bracket shot and flash into Photoshop, I tried a 50/50 Luminosity blend then compared it to the Color mode process you showed here. In every shot, the Color mode looked better! It provides a smooth, even blend! I'm sold on this workflow!
I also really like the way you used the duplicated ambient and flash layers to make the ceiling color cast corrections (using the ambient that you tweaked in Lightroom), and the duplicate flash layer that you put into Darken Mode in Photoshop to tweak the windows. I'm considering what steps I can put into a Photoshop Action to set up the layers for quick editing.
Thanks again, Joe, for your continued experimentation and sharing of your findings! Your ideas are making a direct impact upon my productivity!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! I'm still learning too and probably will never stop!
That looks supper nice with that flash ad600
Good tip with the custom button…
Great tip with the custom setting (which I've never really used in 20 years!) I do similar 'hybrid' technique, I figured I may as well do a bracket + flash just in case, and it is awkward to keep turning flash on and off to not fire etc. Geometric ceiling trick also handy
My olympus won't fire the flash when in bracket mode. So that's a huge advantage
Great video, Joe. I appreciate the information you share, Buddy.
Thank you! Always learning! Appreciate you.
Another fantastic video.. Thank you Joe
Thank you!
Nice video !!
Is there a budget flash you can recommend for a new photographer? Using an E-M10 mark 2 and the pro 8mm lens
Godox TT600. I use that along with the V1. That's it. V1 stays on my camera as my trigger and the other is mobile to do other rooms or window pulls.
Enfuse gives a more natural look than Hdrmerge in LR.
Thanks for the tip!
Ditto. After extensive comparisons of LR and Aurora HDR, the Enfuse results look more "even" across the dynamic range.
The floor near the chair is oversaturated . And in the sunlight, there's no color.
Ya. I fixed it later. Sometimes I get moving too fast.