Long Exposure Hack: Combine Multiple Exposures in Photoshop to simulate a Long Exposure
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Learn how to combine any sequence of back-to-back-to-back photos in Photoshop to create the same look as a single long exposure.
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This video has been up for years now - but I still refer to it every now and then. I love it!
Yeah! more Professional photography tips with Josh Cripps!
Josh Blood would like to have a word with him...
Thank You! Straight to the point and informative. Just what I needed under time pressure.
Glad to see you're back to uploading videos!
Definitely going to try this! I saw your old video about this and totally forgot about doing it.
Great vid - just tried this on some timelapse shots I did last year - 74 shots in total. Came out really well!
This is exact;y what I was looking for! Thank you as always!!!
thanks so much for this. I've been wanting to do it the manual way for ages because I have an older version of Photoshop.
There you are back with your awesome tricks & videos!
Brilliant, especially the workaround for older version Photoshop
OMG Josh, I can't express how great your videos are. I really watch tons of Photography tutorials and most of the time I either skip or think by myself: well, interesting to see how he/she/it does things, great to be reminded or inspired of some possibilities or techniques, but nothign really new at all. This is so different with your videos. Thei are unique, I love your explanation, your clear speach, your tempo and above all: I really learn something new. Most of the time things, that are really helpful.
This video offers me a whole new world of photography, since I haven't got a grey filter, so I always thought I could not to long exposure at daytime. Especially in anticipation of a Norway trekking trip this summer, this video makes me sooo happy. Thank you so much for shareing! (:
Excellent tutorial Joshua..... & so handy when using a nd filter is a no go....!
Awesome! I've been looking for a manual way to do this forever!
everything I know about photography you taught me ! congratulations from italy, thanks for everything!:D
thanks! that is a cool technique
Thank you for getting to the point!
Great technique Josh. I didn't know about that manual method using opacity percentages on each layer. Cool!
Short and useful. Good job.
woah, what an amazing hack. thank you so much
So cool can't wait to try this
Thanks for the video!
Thanks! I can't wait to try... I just need to pick some nice landscape :)
Great vid Josh, Thanks!
A great tutorial Thankyou 👌👌👌
Great video, thank you!
Thanks for the 2nd technique
As I've an old version of photoshop
U got a new subscriber
Thank you so much!
Super tutorial, thank you !
THANKS SOOOO MUCHH!!!
Great video! I'm gonna leave my ND at home ;) (although a good ND filter on the shoot helps to cut down on storage and computer time)
Nice thing is, I can use this technique for many of my timelapse sequences.
That's Great !!! I am trying it now !!!
Loved your video , perfectly done 👍
you're *great* !! thank you for the awesome tips
Excellence tutorial Thank you!
thank you so much !
Good man, Thank you!
thanks joshua
Very useful, thank you!
Thank you very much
Great tips!!! Thanks a bunch!!!!
Great tutorial
Omg, U rocks!
I have some old PS and i was crying all days long becouse of that.... U've made me happy! :D
Greetings.
this is super cool!
I'm going to try it :3
My god! You just made my life easier. Thanks s lot
thanks great
Hey Josh, wish you could do more videos
cheers
tnx worked for me
Great thanks. Can we do a focus stacking in the same way?
Love it
Thank you soo much. This will save me a lot of money that I otherwise would have spent on ND filters.
Thank you very useful. How much should be shutter speed of each of the image we should keep?
great!!!!!
grate video, can i do it in lightroom?
Does this work with Photoshop CS5? I have been trying it and when I get to the stack mood it is grayed out.
First off, welcome back I have been looking forward to your return! Personally I am old fashioned and would be pulling out my "Big Stopper" 10 stop filter, and if I really what to stretch it out I would add my "little stopper" as well. I know really long exposures are adding noise and affecting the life of my sensor due to heat. But I was wondering how this technique would fair with a star trail shot? The last shot I did was 525 images, I can only assume Photoshop is going to really lag with that number of images.
I have used Star Stacks but I am non to fond of using JPEG's, or rendering a final JPEG. Have you tried it on star trails? Do you find using this technique any better or worse that the old really long exposure?
great!!! i have a question how can i take hdr picture when i use nd filter like nd 10 stops
This is great I am going to have to try this next time I'm out shooting. I noticed that you had the images as jpeg would it still work for raw files?
You just saved me 75 dollars worth of nd filters. Thank you!
We need you back at youtube
would you be able to pull them directly out of lightroom or would i have to export to my computer first ? and thanks for this im nervous to start using photoshop and your helping me alot
Hey Joshua!
I wanted to know whether this would work for stacking a set of astrophotos probably including the milky way.
And also the stacking would reduce the noise wouldn't it?
Please let me know the camera settings for this shot
Can you combine this with focus stacking?
Instead of adjusting opacity for each layer, couldn't you just set each layer to mean as well?
Really excited to try this technique. But it looks too good to be true to me. What is the problem with this? Maybe the "lag" between shots when your shutter/camera is preparing for the next shot in sequence can make visible regular "imperfections"? Just wondering if there are any limitations.
Anyway, great tip as usually. Thanks
how long of an exposure before you start damaging the sensor?
hi do you no if this works in photoshop elements 14
How do you apply the tips in ''Long Exposure Photography...... Without Filters!'' on a Sony?
Thank you very much for the that lovely tutorial. However, I have a question and I hope that you can help me, maybe I misunderstood something: In your example, the clouds are moving, you have got gray clouds with white parts. Let's pick one pixel position over all frames where half the frames the pixel is gray and the other half it's white, respectively. When you average the pixel, you obtain a lighter gray pixel, roughly (gray + white) / 2 = light gray. But shouldn't the pixel remain white once it got a full while signal? As another example, we could pick a picture of the starry sky captured with a long exposure time. The whole path of the stars is completely white. Using averaging, no moving star would be visible?!? Wouldn't it be correct to merging all the frames with the maximum function instead of the average function? Thank you and cheers
yes thank you for suggesting to use maximum instead of mean! for nighttime shots maximum looks much much better than mean (haven't tested for daylight shots)
how much gap should be given between each shot when taking 30 or more shots for long exposure?
Which version of Photoshop is this? I have Photoshop Elements 13 and Lightroom 6. Can I "Stack" in either of those?
Can this be done in Lightroom?
what about if i have for examples 40 layers ?
the top layers how could contribute to the final result if they would have a very low opacity?
I mean is there a limit to fake long exposure?
THanks
i dont have the option mean
Is there app that can do this
Only apply to CS version
That looks like the Eastern Sierra by the Upper Owens River. Am I wrong?
Hi! Have you ever tried "Photomatix"? What´s your opinion? Thanks!
+LuisinMenG it's the best HDR tonemapping software.
Hey, when I align the layers I get a loading bar that freezes. Sometimes if I click on the page, it will say not responding, then refresh and start loading again. However, right now I'm trying this again and it's just stuck 2 3rds complete and won't budge. Any advice on how to fix this? It takes forever to finish a photo like this, if it even finishes. Thanks!
At 8:01 when you say boom, what actually we have to press on keyboard?😂
Question: how do you get your camera to do continuous shooting with a 3 s shutter speed? Do you just keep your finger on the shutter button (wouldn't that cause camera shake?) or is there a way to put it on a timer? I have a nikon d3300 but I can't figure out a good way to do this.
MrShuaiGuy you have to use a shutter release.
Hi, I'm a fairly novice Photographer, and I will be going to the French Alps in a couple weeks. I have a Canon 1200d EOS DSLR with a 35mm-55mm lens. (I also have some old film cameras from the 70's, yashica brand, but back to my point). Is my camera and lens sufficient to take some great pictures of the Alps landscapes, and mountain ranges? I was also thinking of buying a tripod and a Polarizing lens.
+VintageLJ bearing in mind that the 1200D is the cheapest camera canon make it will get the job done but the lens is where you need to upgrade to a better quality one. not sure on your budget but the sigma 17-70mm "contemporary" is good for little money.
Tripod for landscape is ESSENTIAL
👍
I wonder can I somehow manage to simulate long exposure without tripod? Basically images would be just slightly different. I want to simulate long exposure photo using drone. Idea is maybe it would be possible to align the images automatically based on some consistent object in the shot.
aaaah automatically align option is there in stacks. Hmm, cant wait to try it out
i dont have anymore the option "create smart object".... why????? do you know?it just dissapeared. and in the smart object, the option, stack mode is grey.i cant click on it. buáááááá´ :(
when i go to smart objects stack mode is there but i can't click on it
Unfortunately, depending on your Photoshop version, it might just not be available. For CS6 for example, you can only click it if you have the extended version.
you have to make it into a smart object first then you can click stack mode
Sorry about my ignorance but was each photo a 3 second exposure, if so wouldn't it be over exposed. Great video tho and would save a hell of a lot of money then buying a nd filter 👍
Shutterspeed, f-stop and iso are what affect the exposure. He was probably using a large f-stop to get the entire scene, from river to the mountains, in focus. Increasing the f-stop decreases light, thus the longer shutterspeed.
@@Pluxars Make sense
Is there a method to achieve this with photos that shot without tripod?
(is there a way to align all these photos?)
There is the align option but if you're using 30, 50, 100 photos etc it's going to take a while to align them all. Better to just spend the $50 on a tripod
wonderful we can now take photos without ND Filters....
Anyway to do with with a smart phone?
just have a tripod and you will be fine :)
Pedjo09 Actually I did this with my Nexus 6p few hours ago and was totally impressed with how it turned out. Definitely trying some more tomorrow.
im glad it did! :)
I have PS CS6 in not extended version and it occured that in my version there is no stack mode, because not. CS6 Extended should have just more options with movies and 3d and I don't need a Photoshop to do those things. So I had been screwed by the Adobe. So here is my question... How to do that amazing stuff without a stack mode? There is always more than just one way to do something in PS, but I cannot figure it out this time. Any suggestions? I will be greatfull.
I'm not sure but from Lightroom you can select your photos and open them in CS6 "as layers" and flat them
Some of my cameras can time one minue exposures without bulb. An external timer to do a "long exposure" for 30 minutes gives me 30 shots. Probably without a lot of noise.
so ... this could work with a portrait !
I know I'm late to the party, but Cool!
Has anybody successfully done this with CS5?
My Photoshop CC 2014
Don't have that option :(
We need to have an Extended version of PS :(
What happens when I wanted to do this during the daylight without any ND filters?
Estimated shutterspeed will be very freaking short.
1/5000? I have to take 5000 pics so as to stimulate 1 sec exposure picture
Try slower shutter speed
ISO down and close your aperture to around f/8 depending on lenses where it is sharpest. Or could decide how long expose your shot will be (meaning how many photos you gonna take) then decided on the aperture and ISO. Remember to expose them correctly. If you are shooting straight into the sun and want to expose to the sun (I don't particularly see why you would do this) then get an ND for the sake of both the picture and your sensor, don't want that thing burning any time soon.
Are there any cons to using this method compared to using ND filters?
negs:
1. unnatural motion. It's just an interpolation...
especially with fast motion it can look unnatural.
2. interpolation artifacts
3. less intuitive as you need more imagination and planing in the field
4. RAW development has to happen before stacking (you probably treat an image with no motion differently ex. clarity of clouds)
5. More post-processing
pros:
1. no NDs: saving money
2. no optical problems:
flare, ghosting, sharpness, contrast...
3. less prone to dust spots.
4. less hassle with an optional filter holder.
5. less dark current ("thermal noise") for very long motion
I took 241 photos and my computer is not the best to combine every single one of them into one smart object. So can I do this process for 20-40 photos each and merge them? Or would that look odd?
pick and choose images which seem to have variations you want to see blend into the final result. I've found that with more than 20 or so (raw files), the compute time doesn't necessarily give a better result - in fact some of the subtleties get washed out a bit... But sure, you can combine several together then combine several of those sorts of results into a roll-up beyond that....
Alright, I may try that. Thanks!
Great video but why not shoot long exposure shots in the first place?