High-End HDR Real Estate Photo Editing
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- In this video we dive into my process for high-end HDR real estate photo editing using Lightroom and Photoshop. I illustrate how to blend and edit your exposures by hand as opposed to doing an auto HDR merge which yields a much higher quality result.
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I'm a total n00b at PS, and this tutorial made me feel like a wizard by the end! Thank you for posting this!
I know this video is 3 years old but dude thank you! I’ve been struggling with my HDR in lightroom and understand why now. I feel like it’s been what I’ve been missing to really take my business to the next step.
Same. I've Ben masking in LR w better results now.
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Perfect tutorial. Seen a bunch of videos giving a route to a product. You've defined a definite route to a higher quality product!! No corner cutting. Just what you need to do. Super appreciated!
Hi, you can use replace color (under image and adjustment) for desaturating, its much easier and accurate.
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Thanks for this video. My real estate photos are way better since I’ve been watching all your videos! I really appreciate u doing this for us new guys and gals coming in!
Do you have any tips for making every room having the same theme. Color and lighting wise?
It's a super nice edit, but 30 minutes per image is insane !!!
It’s called professional editing and running a photography business. I don’t think we need to rag on photographers for dedication to craft.
I've watched from the beginning till the end. What can I say... Thanks for all knowledge you share with us. You help a lot of people :)
Thank you! 😊
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Hi Mike. Longtime Flambient shooter here who has moved over to shooting brackets and sending them out to an editor. I am now wanting to learn to do quality editing from brackets myself. Great video here! Quick question for you... How do you handle mini-blinds? Do you really select each individual blind like you did the divisions in your window in this video example? If so, I'll be pulling every miniblind up before I shoot now! Haha! Thank you!
out of curiosity y the switch?
@@fpvunbox5148 Efficiency. I will still do flambient for high end homes, but the amount of time saved with quality exposure blending more than makes financial sense.... And very very few Realtors can tell the difference, let alone care.
So did you get good with HDR blending, has it been faster for you? This video makes it seem far more time consuming than how long it takes me to process a flambient image!
@@DavidPotter85 I feel like flambient takes more time up front but faster in post. Things like mini blinds are not a problem. In the right room you can get very close to finished image with just one exposure.
The fact that you did not clip out your goofs makes your tutorial flawlessly presented. You always do a fantastic job illustrating real world scenarios and showing great detail in the workflow process.
Wow way different quality thanks for sharing!
I've learned more from this video than school ever taught me
Really good tutorial you didn't speak too fast but you made everything really clear and easily to understand. Do you use a Wacom and a pen surely you're not using a mouse?
Would love to see a comparison video of doing it this way versus a normal HDR merge and some tweaks to that. Thanks again for a great video!
With normal HDR you cannot finetune the different kinds of color casts that are present on walls and furniture pieces like he does in this video by hand painting and masking. The process he does is time consuming but the benefits are obvious.
Hey Mike, thanks for these tutorials! Question though... This seems much more time consuming and tedious than using the flambient technique, and I believe in another video you illustrated that flambient yields superior results. So why would you use this method in actual practice?
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Flambient is more time consuming to shoot though. This method yields a similar level of quality I think to flambient albeit somewhat different of a look.
@Josh Dial adding a flash to my shooting maybe adds 5 minutes to the entire shoot. So, I would disagree that it takes longer to shoot with the idea that it takes longer overall.
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You are amazing! I have to confess, I've been working on these editing skills on and off for a few years and it's just not my thing. I don't enjoy the process and I'm really slow (even if I take shortcuts). Using a polygonal selection tool makes my eyes cross and fingers cramp. Doing all of this for 25 photos per property would take me hours and drive me into the ground. I found an editing service that can merge/edit my photos for about $1.50 apiece. They do fantastic work, on time, are they are great to work with. For me, it's worth it. I'm glad that I understand the process, but I'm gonna jump ship, farm this out, and focus on the stuff I do well.
Nothing wrong with that! It’s important to understand it though I think and know how to do it in a pinch
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I have watched a ton of your videos and for me its you and Nathan Cool as the top guys on this topic. I am extremely grateful for these videos. I have learned a ton from you. My biggest question/comment is your out-of-camera pictures have far less cast on them than mine. They always look so good and you get a lot of your hand blended HDR shots to look extremely similar to flambient. Is the Sony camera that much better for real estate? I use a Canon r5 with an rf15-35 and my colors are always a long way from the flambient images color-wise, much more so than these images, pre-edit.
Thanks! There’s a lot of factors involved. Mainly the lighting situation in the house. If it’s well lit then you’ll have a much better starting point with the ambient brackets then in a poorly lit room for sure. I can’t really speak to the difference between canon and Sony. That would be a great test to do though! If I can get my hands on a canon I will make that video.
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Hi Mike! Thank you again for the wealth of knowledge you provide with these videos.
I had a couple of questions, what size do you export images out of lightroom? I realized if I limit the size too much it decreases the quality of the picture by creating visible noise on the walls. What size do you suggest without sacrificing image quality and still having it post ready for the agent? Also once I am finished editing in photoshop, the finished .tif image in lightroom becomes over 400mb when I started with five 35mb ARW images in the first place. Is there a reason for this?
This was incredibly helpful! Thank you.
This is incredible. I've watched so many videos on this and you were so thorough! I watched it before a shoot today and am excited to impliment your tools. Thank you for sharing! Subscribed
Thanks!!
Mike, your videos are great. I am glad to see hand blended HDR. That said, how is using flash , with so much less editing not easier?
After you used the quick selection tool on the fan, what key did you hit to return it back to the normal color. In the video you said "im just gonna hit x", but i tried hitting x with the fan blade selected and it just was toggling the white and black, like it normally does without changing the fan blade color.
Your am amazing instructor easy to follow and straightforward
Hi there-
After you've lasso'd out your ceiling, it changes your ceiling lights to a more "cool" color. What do you recommend doing for hanging lights/lights underneath kitchen cabinets that are warmer in tone? Do you usually touch back in your ceiling lights so they're more orange OR do you fix the orange lights so they're more cool? In the image I'm using, I'm also am having some orange light casting on the walls and kitchen counter. It looks a little strange to have two different color temperatures but I'm not sure what direction to go (cool vs warm).
I hope that makes sense! Thanks for any tips. Great video.
Thanks! I would brush the orange color of ceiling lights back in. That’s the easiest thing to do.
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography Beautiful! Thanks so much for your insight :)
Great video, very informative, I was kind of waiting for the sunlight shining on the floor through the windows to be removed and brush the floor with the same wood colour, I am not finding faults but like to learn.
I am unsure at the very beginning what exposure you are blending into which as you don't mention. Can you please explain?
Hi is this better way to do than flambient?
how long does it take for you to edit a single photo ? is it usally 30 mins long or it just got long cause you were explaining ? i litreally have to edit more than 40 50 photos in a single day and i have to make them as good as possible with no any shadowns within 10 mins in editing and i have to like 12+ hrs straight work and still they complaining i m really thinking of leaving this stupid job, i m working so many pics and for so long just for 150$per month
Noticed that you mention that you don’t shoot raw in this video, but in your other video on flambient lighting you do shoot raw. What prompted the change?
I mentioned in 1 of my videos about shooting jpg if you are auto merging HDRs in Lightroom and doing some light editing on them. Jpg will hold up if if you’re only doing slight tweaks. For anything else I’d definitely recommend RAW.
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography That makes sense, thanks for the clarification!
Amazing tutorial, I work with high ends properties in my area and use HDR bracketing technic but this hand blending method is by far better. The thing is sometimes I do 2-3 shootings a week and they all need their photos under 5 days because that’s the time they have to put some pictures on the websites once they signed up their listing so correct me if I’m wrong but even with all the action presets it’s might still a 20-30 minutes process for each photos ... that’s almost 2 days of editing for one session ... that’s very time consuming when you have a life and not single living in your basement lol I wish I could use that hand blending technic and fine tuning but I just have no time for that and my clients
It can be streamlined. Take what you want from it and create a technique that works for you!
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography i will definitely give it a try, again amazing content on this channel. Thank you so much
that's why flambient is more efficient? what's your technique of choice? HDR or flambient?
Just wanted to know like I'm starter in real estate and working as a photographer in real estate company. Which is easiest and fastest way. With Flash blending or without flash blending? As earlier I was thinking without flash you can't do good good real estate photography as I tried Photomarix and it was not that amazing. I'm amazed that how you make that image too good with editing just confused weather it will take so much time. One last thing how much height should be of camera while shooting. Thank you learning a lot from this channel as earlier I followed you real estate videography video and it was success. Thank you! Thank you! Waiting for your response
Thanks! Flash takes a bit more shooting time and no flash is a bit more time on the editing end to make it look good. I think it’s a matter of experimenting and finding out what you like best. My camera is anywhere between waist and chest high while shooting. Waist high unless I need to raise it to capture above furniture or any obstructions. Hope that helps and thanks so much for watching!
Thanks for the video ! The result is amazing, but it takes 10 times longer than HDR merging. I'm not sure my clients or any client would pay 10 times more unfortunately.
Mike - can you do a tutorial of using the new Photoshop “Merge HDR Pro” feature for Real Estate Interiors?
You edited this exactly how I edit. I use the lasso to select a lot but it seems like your brush is picking up on the edges when you paint in. My brush doesn’t do that good. Is there a setting for that?
No, no setting for picking up edges. I just adjust my brushes hardness settings depending on what I’m doing.
Wow, very helpful! Always learning from your tutorials. Thank you so much!
Great video. How long does in normally take you to complete 40 photographs?
Hey! Would you tend to do this for every photo you took in the house? I feel like that takes forever! Or do you only do this much detail for a few key shots, and HDR blend the rest?
or maybe this is just a high paying job and you're doing every photo perfectly. idk!
Yes, all the photos would be edited in this manner. As I said in the video, for I was just trying to take it slow for teaching purposes to illustrate the process and make it easy for people understand. Usually it would go quicker and I would use photoshop actions and things like that to speed up the process. Some shots don’t have windows in them either so those go quick. That said, it is a longer and more involved process than merging your images for sure but the result is significantly better in my opinion. Yes, you would have to decide if what you’re getting paid justifies it or not.
It is a great video, but yes, very time consuming. Using lights, as he mention in later comments, cut down the editing process massively. Look up the 'flambient' method.
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography how much people getting paid ?
i m getting like 150$ per month and have to edit like 40 or more photos within 10 min for each photos so sometimes there is some mistakes but if were to edit a single photo taking like 30 mins then it would take forever and clients want them edited within 12 hrs -_-
@@obethlama6415 I don't want to brag but you need to find high clients who pay you for your work. 150 a month for 40 images sounds like a joke to me. Last Saturday I shoot a house for 2000 euros for the same amount of images. And I always tell them how much it's gonna take until they get the images. Do not Stress yourself for anything because I am sure that you are worth way more.
@@ogdvisuals thanks man that was a great help and a motivation to me, its just that the country i live in is a mess and i had to that just to earn 150 a month and i edit like more than 20 house within a month and cause of i m living in this shitty ass country i cant even do freelance cause its kinda hard to use or almost impossible to use paypal and bank transfer takes like 1 week
Hi, is it possible to get ur bracketed photos for me to practice? Would really appreciate if you could help with it. I am trying to get myself into it but dont have a camera. Before getting the equipment, i really wana give a go with photo editing in lightroom and PS. Thanks heaps.
Thanks for the tutorial. Personally, Window pulls are not to my personal liking I don't know it looks too fake for me but a great demo on how to do them.
Do you do every client regardless of price like this or do you have banding where you then switch your editing to this style as its a higher paid job?
Thanks! Yeah I hear you, not everyone likes them. You don’t have to go as extreme, just adjust to your personal preference. From my experience clients do seem to like it. All my editing is done this way currently for HDR shooting and it’s built into my price but you certainly could have different tiers and charge accordingly. Whatever you feel suits your clients needs and your business.
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography Yeah they are definitely the more high end style and architectural look. I think the reason they don't sit right with me is that they look like a CAD render. How do you deal with Blinds and shutters with them window pulls
Thanks for the information I might create tiers as that style would increase my editing time that's for sure.
@@matthewosbornmedia8828 method is the same for blinds and things like that. Just cut out the window and paint the blinds back in as I did with the crossbars in the video.
I like Photomatix Pro does all the editing work.
Thank you.This was really helpful. I saved my photo PNG or JPG but when I open it after 2 seconds it becomes very textured and dosnet have quality. How can I solve this problem.
Hmm not sure what is going on there
the only thing that i can say is WOW!
Hi Mike,
real estate beginner here and very new to PS, as I usually use LR but I want to learn. I may be a newbie to Photoshop but I am learning as I go and I feel like everytime I push myself in it, I will learn a little more. In the start you moved the third image up and then added a layer and the layer was black, mine is white. How do I change that and does it matter? the part where you say "fills it with black and hides it". I can not figure out how to change that to black. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hey! If you option (alt) - click on the layer mask button it will add a black layer mask instead of white.
Fantastic, thorough video, thank you so much! In the video you do it all on a MacBook using just the trackpad as far as I can see. Is that how you normally edit, or do you have external monitors and/or input devices?
Yeah, I just use my MacBook. I know that’s a little crazy maybe haha. I like to be mobile. I take it with me when I’m out shooting during the day and edit in my car between shoots as well 😁
Thank you very much for the tutorial, Mike! Ive been using PS for quite a while, and I still picked up some really useful pointers in this.
Sorry if this is a dumb Q...If the white balance is off in your bracketed shots, do you do the white balance in lightroom first before transferring to photoshop?
I don’t believe in dumb questions 😊 no, I don’t do any adjustments to white balance or color correction of any kind until the brackets are blended in photoshop.
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography Thank-you!!
Great video. But my question is do you you the same window pull technique if you have blinds?
Yes same thing but more of a pain! Haha
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography damn! 🤷
Thanks for the amazing video. Is it solely preferential the order of your layers when you get to photoshop ?
I usually rearrange them a bit as I work through and take what I need from each one.
Great job! Curious, do you do this for every photo you take for real estate? I'm a real estate photographer and I send a min 40-50 photos to my realtors. This is something I would do for my interior designers or new builds. Seems very time consuming if you regularly do real estate photography. Great job none the less!
Thanks! I use these techniques to varying degrees depending on the job. It is more of a “high-end” product.
Super helpful video for me. Getting ready to launch my media company and I'm focusing on the real estate market. I've been watching so many tutorials on how to edit giving the best quality with the most efficient use of my time. This video was super helpful! Thank you!
Thanks!
Wouldn't using lighten and darken mode on your layers work quicker? As it only reveals the lighter or darker areas in underlying layers....
Effn Badass thanks!
When you fill the windows back in with white, how do you match the color tone to what's around it? I am trying to clean up a dresser with scratch marks and want to paint it white but because of the lighting, it casts different tones of white.
Thank you, Mike. Really appreciate the effort you put into this.
Great video. Thanks. Would you be able to go through your Sony a7iii settings for real estate photography. ?
Thanks! I go through all of my settings in this video: ua-cam.com/video/oQ8yomPmOos/v-deo.html
I’d much rather outsource editing so I can concentrate more on taking RE photos. Seems tedious but looks absolutely wonderful. Thanks for the video.
Hi Joanne, can you give me a try on your editing? I'll provide the same result as Mike showed here. you can contact me anytime at chishraqahmed@gmail.com Thanks and happy shooting ..
I actually enjoy the editing part so if someone could send me HD RE photos (you), I could work on them! It would be a great match!
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Hi Joanne. Where do you outsource these editors?
@@sonsterb1644 got it.
This is an amazing video. I wonder if you used a color checker if that would help speed up the color process. I guess Ill have to try mine out. Maybe one shot proper exposure with color checker. Remove color checker and do 5 bracket shots.
Good thought!
I don't seem to have the option to open as layers in photoshop, i'm only able to open one photo at a time into photoshop. Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong? Thank you Mike, love the videos!
Are you using Lightroom classic?
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography no I wasn't, this is what was wrong thank you!
This is a great way to edit real estate photos if you want to work 12 hours a day for minimum wage.
hi ! Do you use preset for Real Estate photo ? or are you creating one ?
Fantastically comprehensive video
Great video, thanks a lot for all this information. Do you know any good free software to use instead of Photoshop and Lightroom?
Thanks again for your help ✌️
Thanks! I don’t know of any good free software I’m sorry.
THANK YOU, as always for your videos!! Just one note: I was actually confused by the description of the video and almost didn't even watch it. I think you meant to write "I illustrate how to blend and edit your exposures by hand which yields a much higher quality result as opposed to doing an auto HDR. (I taught English for way too many years!)
I've commented already, but all of your content is amazing! I purchased your HDR Interior presets earlier today, and my workflow has been so much faster than usual. On top of that - it's now consistent! Huge thank you!
Thanks! 😊
I was recently editing photos on my second monitor at work, and was trying this technique for the first time. When I finished the image, I pulled it over to my macbook pro and it looked like I hadn't white balanced correctly (Lots of warmth, too much yellow). Have you ever calibrated your monitors? Is it worth calibrating? And if so, what are your preferred settings?
I have not ever calibrated my monitor. Some global white balance adjustments may be necessary in addition if necessary.
Usually a *second* monitor is your less great of the two imo calibrating low end montiors are a waste, I recommend an isp monitor. The last thing you want to be messing around with is color inconsistency because your monitor isn't calibrated.
just wondering, why u edit the final image in lightroom and not in camera raw filter in photoshop?🤔
Because I like having all of the images in one collection so I can batch export/resize them all when I’m finished editing.
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography good to know, thanks 👍, and great content!
These are very great tips. Thank you so much for sharing!
Curious…when you’re setting up your shot for 5 brackets, do you look to start your 1st shot @0OE, or do you shoot +2OE or so, then bracket? Thanks!
My first shot is at 0.
Thanks Awesome job I like the technique. the selections look very labour intensive I use the quick selection tool to select the white bits and then clean up with other tools instead of meticulous paths. As it is an adjustment layer non destructive.
Is there anyway to speed this proces up? like 30 min for a window is not doable cost wise :( would take me 18 hours for every house :P
Well done! I’ve been looking for a video on how to do this, and this was great!
Great video and gorgeous photo! What picture profile do you use?
Are 3 bracketed shots adequate? My Canon M-50 doesn't provide the option for 5 shots.
3 is good enough most of the time
I have followed this to the letter but when I paint my first mask instead of getting lighter it gets darker?!
Amazing stuff. So appreciative of your channel. Thank you for cutting my learning curve in one-third.
Awesome! You do a really good job at explaining quickly and succinctly without being confusing. Really good thank you!
Thanks!
Okay I have a practical question concerning workflow. Let me say first that I certainly appreciate the art behind this type of thing however if you’re shooting 40 to 50 pictures on average for a house and you’re spending 30 to 40 minutes in post for each picture how do you Bill for that. If you had 50 images that you spent 30 minutes in post for each And let’s say you’re billing conservatively at $50 an hour, you’re upwards of $1200-$1300 just in post production. I don’t know any real estate agents that are willing to pay that kind of money for real estate photos
This is a demonstration video done slowly so people can follow it and understand it. You can pick and choose which aspects you want to incorporate into your own workflow that fits with the amount of time you want to spend on each image.
Possibly the best tutorial on hand blending anyone could ask for, pretty amazing that you can do so much with a few brackets. Didn’t even need to break the strobes out!
Thanks!! Yes, it’s a pretty effective method. Strobes definitely cut down on the editing time though.
LOL
What would you recommend for when you are cleaning up the windows, when you do not have white trim but you have wood or metal?
When it’s not white trim it’s not as big of an issue so typically I don’t do much in those scenarios.
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography ok, I am having the issue of when bracketing the image from the less exposed photo that I get this black Lin e running around some parts of the windows. Do you know how to prevent this?
@@gabrielladesantis3210 hmm I’m sorry, I don’t know what might be causing that!
How long does it take on average to edit a full photoshoot this way? Of course it depends on the house, but if you could give a rough estimate.
P.S. your videos are really helping me with my new real estate photography business. Thank you very much! Very informative.
Thanks! Glad to hear it. This process is obviously more time consuming which is why I call it "high end" because you need to be paid for your time. It does greatly depend on the house but a full edit could be in the neighborhood 2-3 hours.
Hi can i share more tips with you ?
Just shoot and outsource all your editing. Why bother wasting 30+ min on a single photo when you have probably 30-50 deliverables you would have to edit. Absurd. A waste of time honestly. Time is money. Just pay 50 bucks or less and have it all completed and submitted back to you before you wake up the next morning😂
Nice one, thanks. At which shutter speed and aperture was this shot?
F/8 aperture. It’s 5 brackets so each was a different shutter speed (2 stops apart) I shoot on a tripod so I’m not really paying attention to shutter speed because the camera is stationary so doesn’t really matter. I shoot aperture priority mode so I let camera determine shutter speed automatically.
This is great, but I don’t get the “edit as layers in photoshop” option when right clicking. Any idea as to why? Maybe a different version?
I’m using Lightroom classic. I believe if you are using the cloud version it doesn’t not have that option.
I had a problem with Lightroom classic to open as layers in photoshop. I reached out to adobe creative cloud, let them have access to my computer via screen share and they fixed the bugs
@@gabrielladesantis3210 yeah, definitely have heard people having issues with that function.
You'd rather do all this on the computer than flash-ambient?
Is there a program that automates this process? I know nothing can beat doing it manually like this but just curious if you know of anything.
You can use photoshop actions to speed it up a bit. I’m planning on doing a video on that soon!
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography yes please! I’m not familiar with photoshop actions.
No elevator for work. You have to take the stairs. Now, I usually expose for the exterior leaving it a bit washed (as so to look more high end) and than light up the interior with small Flashes bouncing of the ceilings (if they are white, if not, use umbrellas). I use the Flashpoint Ad200. You would only post process for about 2 minutes per image. 👍
Look up a company that offers a product called Photomatix. It's a photo blending software that does just that. It's not as good as what this guy is doing, but it will blend the photos for a whole shoot in a matter of minutes. I usually go in to Lightroom once the blending is done and do min. adjustments accordingly. I do plenty of business using this technique (10-30 shoots a week). I watch these videos to help understand other techniques in case I want to change my process. Also, over the past few minutes I have hired out my editing at roughly $.90 a photo (it can be found cheaper, but you get what you pay for). Anyways, your question caught my attention and I though I would chime in with my $.02.
@@jonsaucier2973 thanks for commenting! I had a feeling there must be something out there like that. Nothing beats doing it like this though.
Very helpful!
Are these bracketed pictures available online to practise the art?
This video does have that available (check description):
ua-cam.com/video/1hH5s8FRDIg/v-deo.html
Oh, two last questions for you! Thank you in advance for your time :)
- Is there a way to protect your layers instead of merging all of them at the end? I'm afraid if I merge all and the client wants a small tweak, I'll have to re-edit the whole photo. I know this is rare, but I have a possible higher-end client and they really eyeball details.
- I'm also having an issue that when I do a window pull and paint back in white areas, the whites are a bit overexposed/harsh. Should I try a lower opacity, flow, or hardness possibly?
Thanks again!
Yeah you can absolutely save the photoshop files and include the layers! Yeah, I would suggest using a lower flow on your brush
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography Perfect, thanks so much again for both tips!
I'm trying to set all of my settings to align with yours but the opacity is different where my brush strokes are overlapping. How do you keep that from happening?
Did you possibly paint onto the actual layer instead of the layer mask by mistake? Make sure the mask is selected when you’re blending. Let me know if that is not the problem and I will try to think of what else might be going on.
@@InsideRealEstatePhotography unfortunately, no. I definitely have only the mask selected
@@jessicaballard9879 hmm I’m sorry, I can’t really think of what the issue might be!
HI. i love watching your videos i have been doing image editing work for last 6 years . how to apply for freelance work .for real estate company please tell me
Hi, did u used flash here or just ambient light? Thank you for this!
No flash for this.
Great work!
Whats the best focal length for inside real estate ?
My preference is 16-35mm lens on full frame camera
Amazing, thank you! We were just doing HDR merge before in lightroom CC, desaturating yellow tones, then brushing back in colours. If we needed window pulls we would send to a third-party but the photos always came back terrible. This has really helped! From a business stand point, we charge $149 CAD for unlimited photos, but I feel like we should be charging more for this quality of image as it takes longer to edit. Perhaps $149 and 20-25 images. The issue is, realtors don't want to pay more that the $149 lol! Out of curiosity, what would you recommend charging for this quality of photo? Thanks in advance, and thanks for this video!
Buy some Godox/Flashpoint lights and triggers and learn the flash-ambient (flambient) method. While this video is useful and instructional, you will go crazy trying to edit photographs this way.
I honestly can't see how ANYONE would charge less than $400 for a "standard' level of realty photography work. So many photographers out there trying to get a piece of the pie by charging next to nothing is making this market impossible to stay in. It's a shame. Then the amount of time that this person is taking to edit a single image is astounding. Unless a home is in the millions, I couldn't see how anyone would charge less than $2,000 to edit all of their images in this way.
It's photographers like you that mess up the market and make the industry cheapskate.. $149 for unlimited photos... come on! are you hustling or doing some charitable deeds for peanuts?
Great work thanks for the tutorial!
After you finished touching the whites you merged all those layers together. have you ever regretted doing this? Same some do with portrait retouch to jump to the next step. I tend to keep everything there just in case, but obviously it ends being a huge file abandoned in a hard drive hah
I hear you! For this type of work I don’t get overly concerned with it. Editing a whole shoot of like 30 photos just churn on through haha.
Great video. Question for you, do you have or can you do a video on sky replacements. Best websites for getting skys, Your methods for getting skys, blending techniques, etc... Its amazing how a great sky will enhance the image.
Thanks! I do already have a video on doing sky replacements: ua-cam.com/video/4A_wmEspdXs/v-deo.html
How do you stay in business taking this much time with one photo, when there is 30 photos a shoot on average, 2-4 shoots a day ?