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.
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.
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 UA-cam's playback speed feature. Found the video great just the way it is, thanks for sharing man, keep it up!
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
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 UA-cam for this subject (even though it was made way back in 2018!!). It gets a thumbs up from me.
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..?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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 !
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.
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..
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.
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.
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!
Vinny: "What are these really big things right in the middle of your view... ..from the window of your kitchen|to the Sac-o-Suds? What do we call these big things? " Witness: "Trees?" Vinny: "Trees! That's right. Don't be afraid, just shout 'em out when you know. " Read more: www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=my-cousin-vinny
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. 🙂
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.
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.
An interesting technique but it seems excessively complicated. In real time processing, how long would it take you to complete all these steps?
Hmm. If I wasn't using actions I'd say roughly 3-5 minutes. I do agree with you, it is quite a complicated and not completely necessary workflow.
Aaaalll night... 😘
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 UA-cam's playback speed feature. Found the video great just the way it is, thanks for sharing man, keep it up!
@@HunterLomayesva do u have the actions :D
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!
get a panel like lumenzia, nick or something related.
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.
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.
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!
Wow you sure know your stuff thank you so much for sharing!
I love this tutorial. Absolutely Gorgeous!
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?
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.
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 UA-cam for this subject (even though it was made way back in 2018!!). It gets a thumbs up from me.
Thank you for this video. It helped me every step of the way.
Thanks for the Tutorial! Whats the function of applying a black and white layer?
Awesome thanks this was so helpful!
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..?
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.
True true. I definitely could've worked with these images a lot better.
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!
Wow, this inspired me a lot in editing real estate photography's!! Thank you.
excellent video. Thank you!
Wonderful and. Amazing 👏👏 thanks for sharing 👍
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.
bravo very helpfull!! But I don't have right now the level to play like you with the tools but this is my goal!
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.
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.
Amazing Technique will apply it! thank you very meuch your amazing
Absolutely Gorgeous!
If u dont mind, Can I have those raws for exercise?
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?
That's the least it takes me as well for 35-40 shots. Very time consuming to edit. I'd love to speed that up.
Thanks for the tutorial. How do get the levels to come up in your curves layer?
he did click the command L
how do you "intensify" the curves layer when desaturating the yellows? Adding a level layer to a curve layer?Timestamp 20:08. Thanks
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.
I would be bankrupt if I spent that much time on a single image. You must get paid a hell of a lot to justify that.
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.
I also do architectural photography I too blend more than 15 exposure with light painting for some images . Do check my Instagram @arpitrajtandon
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.
you can use Photomatix Pro for PTS ? it is easy and atomatic
Very useful. Thank you
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.
Nice video
'These things called trees...'
And what are these little things around the trees called?…..leaves??? Lmfao 🤣
Hunter you are a legend! Great videos! and great communication skills.
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.
Your window frames are now darker where you brushed in the outside?
Why not use the hdr blend in lightroom ? It does a pretty good job and saves a lot of time
This is cool for high end work. For MLS, this is too much work. Use flash blend with ambient shot is a better way I think.
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?
I mean bracket vs your flash method
I'll use flash for just about all of my shoots but I'll bracket off three exposures just in case I want to make videos like this. 🙂
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.
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!
I'd like to know as well
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
Would you please share raw photos?
I'm so tempted to try and make this into a step by step action... I just need to learn actions a little better.
I've already made it into a set of actions. 😊
Is that the "essential actions 1.0"?
Hunter Lomayesva hey Hunter. Do you have the actions available somewhere?
what do you press to get that up at 18:00?
Ctrl + L / Command + L
It's the Levels dialog box.
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
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
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 !
What did you mean by "Creaky Chair?"
Thank pro but too complicated, is there a simpler way?
Quite an in-depth vídeo - plus you didn't show us how to finalizase the bracketing technique?
I thought this was going to be using Photo Merge HDR @ 5:53? Interesting way of editing the long way.
"You may be wondering why..."
Yes I am because you didn't explain what you were doing or why as you went along.
Yeah crazy complex, interesting techniques and tricks to pick up along the way tho. This would scare any beginner out the room!
I don't get what's the purpose of the curves layer in this video at all?
use the Aurora HDR it's simple and great tool
How to use in GIMP ?
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.
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..
Fab
very confusing
Why don't you Lightroom? Photo > Merge > HDR?
Because I’m idiot man
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.
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.
I’m -41 in the blues 🥺
Felt that
dude please cut out all of the excess talking. This is a good technique but I am dying listening to you ramble on and then say "never mind"
I hate this tutorial so I completely understand where you're coming from.
agree
Can i book an learning session on skype with you? :) Awesome work man!
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!
Sufphy I agree. Hunter’s such a twat.
Vinny: "What are these really big things right in the middle of your view...
..from the window of your kitchen|to the Sac-o-Suds?
What do we call these big things?
"
Witness: "Trees?"
Vinny: "Trees! That's right.
Don't be afraid, just shout 'em out when you know.
"
Read more: www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=my-cousin-vinny
I'm familiar with this technique but he's making it way too complicated for beginners.
Same as photoshop.
This video is bad and you should feel bad!
I can't imagine doing this for 10 real estate images... it's waaaaay complicated!
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.
Too much fluff
Final Cut Multimedia I agree
fell asleep
Too complicated...agh.
you are making it too complex it is a simple process,
what a joke :D
I know right? And it’s not even a good one
Constructive comment. Too much chatter.. I think this is belabored
Far too slow
You do not explain what your are doing at all so this is extremely unhelpful.
That looks insanely fake, just saying... Not a good technique
K
@@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. 🙂
Agree. Skipped to the end and saw what any other software would do in one click. 😬😬
Awfully explained. Actually, barely explained at all
I know, right?