Image stacking for long exposure photography Tutorial in Lightroom and Photoshop
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2017
- This is a basic Tutorial on how to create a Long exposure photo by stacking multiple shots in to on single image using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.
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"Mean" gives you the average value for a speciflc pixel as found in all the images - you have 80 something images. They grab the color/luminance values of that pixel in each image, add them up and divide by number of images. Whatever it turns out as, they display those values for that pixel. "Median", you have 80, they make a list of the pixel values from each and grab the center of the list - so 39 or 40 (on an odd number its that exact middle one, otherwise they probably average the 2 nearest it.
Median is a good way to reduce noise in any kind of static shot btw. It's pretty impressive if you shoot with higher ISOs out of necessity...
Mean is a cheap way to get that flowing water look without an expensive filter like a Lee f-stopper... the filter is a finer result, but I've got some that look almost the same that I shot within a few minutes of each other - just blasted off 30 shots of a waterfall (handheld) - aligned them in PS and pulled the "mean"...
Lyle Stavast ive never heard a better way of explaining it.
I don't know what it does but, it does a good job! I had a good laugh ( because the way you said it ) really appreciate the honesty. Nice vid. I would of used less photos looking for somewhere with no cloud movement & what you have. But that is just my personal taste & no big deal. Great vid!
Thanks
His PC is literally screaming while rendering.
Good tutorial!
That's really magic, I didn't thought I wouldn't really need ND filter anymore but you've mad my day .
WOAH wow! Stumbled across this as playing with astro in PS, not the tutorial I was after but glad I watched it
Great way to be able to shoot a time-lapse and a long exposure with only one tripod and one camera at the same time. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Ivan. You helped me to put my first stacking photo..!!
Dude, that was super cool. Thank you!!!!
I've been playing about with long exposure photography for quite some time but had never heard of this technique before stumbling onto this post earlier today. I immediately went out to try it out and would have to say that this is singularly the most useful Photoshop processing idea I have come across in a very long time.
Thanks for posting it. I can see this technique becoming a permanent part of my workflow from now on!
Im glad you like it i hope to see your shots some day
im literally about to head out and take photos somewhere of the stars haha.
Sweet. Going to try this with waterfalls
Thank you so much for this tip, great video!
Beautiful scene but you made it look spectacular
Great tip, thanks. Turned an ordinary photo into something quite interesting
Woww, great tip! I think I'll save some money on ND filters LOL. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much! Helped a ton
Thanks for your time Ivan, I've subscribed. And, nice to know I no longer have the noisiest pc fan in the world :)
I only learnt of this today after playing witn my 5S and an app that does similar in phone (but not as well of course).
This is amazing!! thanks for the knowledge and clear explanation
Best Tutorial ever. Thanks heaps
Good stuff! Thanks for upping this tutorial.
Awesome tutorial! Thank you very much!!!
i liked your tutorial very much ... helped me a lot.... i got new sony fdr x3000 & was depressed coz i cant take long exposure shot like gopro does... but after watching your tutorial i have no regrets of buy sony action cam. thanks a lot... will try this soon.... :) cheers
I think you done a very good job it looks Spectacular many good photos to come many thanks mark
Very helpful! Thank you very much.
Great explanation - and excellent end result! (I guess I should now subscribe 👍)
Great tutorial. Very brief and to the point 👍🏽
Amazing work. Thanks for sharing!
Just found this video but that's really amazing ! I can't add a filter on my Samyang 14mm wide angle lens but this just explains how to do a "long exposure" shot with more light and without ND filter. Great stuff !
you might need to get the 150 x 150 adapter from lee to put some filters on it
The "Mean" option in the Smart Object Stack Mode is also really useful for when you're doing Super Resolution instead of trying to accomplish the same result with Layer Styles and Opacity.
Thanks for the tutorial, exactly what I was looking for - great info!
Gald i can help out
Quick and easy, thank you!!
this video was so helpful, thanks
Amazing. I have to try it!
Really, you have made me your fan bro............
Very nice Ivan Thanx.
Thank you so much for the tutorial!
You are so welcome!
will this work if you have trees that are closer and blowing in the wind? or will it be the same effect as just doing a long exposure photo that blurs the moving trees?
fantastic , great job , i'll try this
Very simple and clear explanation and the end result is simply amazing thank you so much
your welcome
Great Video With Great Knowledge. 😊🙏
Good tutorial, keep it up!
Terrific help, thanks man. Been wanting to know how this is done for a while. If you haven't done it already, you should do this with your astro work and show us how that resuls.
its in the making
Amazing work. I so need help on the Astro side to get the foreground to show up without grain and color issue. Great Job!!!
Nice job thank you for the tutorial ,I will try this tomorrow
Thanks
Great tutorial, and your Instagram 👍👌😍
yes its Ivan_farca
thank you! very very usefully!
Ivan, question. If you don’t want the effect so intense, like you want to show some waves, do u just shoot less frames ?
HI, Ivan Simple editing made easy, I like the way you go back to LR to final editing. Thank you welshman 2081
wow. thanks for sharing.
i wonder if there is like stacking that simulates bulb mode for the purpose of just to properly expose dark scenes. as we know, very long exposure introduce noise and hot pixels. I hate LENR because it takes time.
you can always turn off LENR in the camera and do it in the post process at least that's what i do, and for the dark parts of the images you can always brighten the exposure and with the stack mode to Median the nois will go away. That's how i clean up the noise on my Milky Way shots.
Hi mate, the new lightroom does not appear to have this feature.. any ideas on how I could do this now? as you cant click to get them into layers, and if I do it in photoshop it does not save back into CR3. raw. into lightroom. thanks.
Well explained; thank you.
Holy macaroni! That's some magic outside of Hogwarts! Thank you for sharing this
what was your interval between shots? and how many photos?
Great video 👍
Great tutorial really helped thankyou 👌👌
👍🤘✌️😁 good stuff, great pic
dear,sir my ps stack mode i cannot enable pls help me
sweet! many thx!
Thank you for this 😃
"mean" basically just takes the number of images you have stacked in your Smart Object and divides their opacity equally so as to produce a smooth overlay. At least that's how I understand its function. So if you have 10 images, it will give each image an opacity of 10% leaving you with a final opacity of 100%
Thanks for the video man!
No Prob have you ckecked out the others ive made?
Ivan Farca not yet but I will!
For some reason my LR menus are not having this and I can't select more than one of my pictures to edit in PS if I select 2 or more it's greyed out , I don't get it
Can only be done with Lightroom Classic not LR CC
Did you manually take each shot or did you have a timer set or use a remote? What do you recommend I guess I should ask. I'm shooting on the Sony mirrorless systen
MrCuerv010 i had the internal intervalometer do the time lapse, im sure sony has an app that can do timelapse
Hello ! Found out that 'Layer - Smart Object - Statistics' functio n doesn't work on my PS CC 2018 version. HOW can i FIX that problem?? Could you please help?? Thnx!
I created a smart object but when i try to select stack mode it stats hidden.
I use ps2015cc
Hi Ivan, I like this process, even though I have always been comfortable by adding a radial filter. I was wondering why you haven't removed the person on the right corner of the pic. It's just my curiosity. Thanks!
Actually when i did this shot i grabbed different shots and the guy is not there
And after i did my shot i thought to make the tutorial with different shots of the same timelapse
Wow simple and powerful
First thanks for the amazing tutorial. Tried doing this yesterday with about 60-70 frames and then stacking them in PS but somehow doesn't get the same results as you do. Would it be better to shoot at lower shutter speeds to get a small amount of movement on each frame or would it be better to look for subject with a lot of movement instead? would appreciate any help on this one.
Alfred Sa-onoy 60-70 images is more than enough shots to capture some movement. I actually didnt use any long exposure on my shots and an interval of 3 sec between each photo.
Ivan Farca weird wasnt getting the same effects as yours after stacking them in ps. Mine also had the 3 secs difference each frame....guess ill have to try again later..
@@alfredsa-onoy3287 Maybe Ivan’s clouds were moving faster than your clouds?
Thanx a lot mate
Must try!
you could propably heavily undexpose your images (so minimum noise) and then use summation instead of median. works a bit like screen mode.
Thanks for this
Thank you :)
Very nice - thank you :)
Thank you too!
Thank you very much
Is this method equivalent to auto-blending layers, as far as focus-stacking is concerned? Were you focusing on the same spot in all the images ?
hey. i didnt focus stack at all. and no this isnt another way to focus stack since it is merging all layer in to 1 single shot.
Why would you do the LR corrections after stacking, once the photo is not RAW anymore?
It is not a raw format but PSD and Tiff preserve the raw data in to the file and i want to finish out in LR because im used to that workflow
Great video You mentioned Astro photography. If you have a large amount of images, say 200, how do you bring into PS, say 20 images at a time in a stack and then add another 20, and another 20 and so one and so on?
Hi Ivan, just wondering if I were to stack 10 photos into 1 for astrophotography, does all 10 of it has to be the same ISO, aperture settings?
no they can be different but by changing settings you might bump the tripod and things wont align afterwards
Good job 👌🏻
Thanks 😅
Hi Ivan! just a quick question hehe those images came from a timelapse video isn’t it? correct me if I am wrong. :)
Yes and no it is a timelapse i did but they are just individual images before i did the timelapse video.
I'm new to astrophotography. When you said you do several takes on the milky way then stack them, did you have to use a star tracker? Is it even possible to do several shots without one??
Thomas D. Groesch good question.
The stacking process for astro is only for noise reduction and yes it’s possible to single shots without a tracker as long as you use the 500 rule.
i dont have the mean option
Holymoli that was a magic
When I turn on my PC neighbors think it's a washing machine lol
Thank you very useful. How much should be shutter speed of each of the image we should keep?
yogesh puranik how ever long you want it can even be a fast shutter speed but the key is doing 3 second interval between each photo
Ivan Farca okay thank you. I took photos of 1/50 shutter speed as light was harsh and took continuous photoa by keeping remote shutter clicked and when I tried with above process, I hardly see sky like above you mentioned. But I realised it may be due to I have not kept 3 sec interval between each photo. I guess that would be the reason. What do you think?. Thank you
if there is no movement at all in the frame there is no point doing this method, i just did another image and the clouds were moving very slow so i stacked around 40 images and i got a good streak with the 3 sec interval
Thanks!...also your computer sounds like it is about to blow up 😆
Is this possible during day time?
I guess we cannot use RAW files to convert as a smart objects in PS?
Stack mode option greyed out in my photoshop.
Which version of photoshop do you use ?
i have CC and always updating PS, LR and Camera Raw
Exactly how did you save it I am new to this
Hi man, great video, definitely going to try this technique out. However I didn't completely get that you edited the photos first in Lightroom, and then brought them in Photoshop and edited the final file again in Lightroom again. Or were the images you imported into Photoshop not yet edited? Great video anyways, would love to get some clarification about this though, thanks!
hey, so i do the basic workflow in LR then i stack them in PS and then i do some dodging and burning in LR again.
@@IvanFarca ah I see, thanks!
Thank you
So what if the wind is really strong and the trees at the back are shaking? Will the background be blur in that way?
you can always mask out the foreground or certain parts of the photo and keep them in front of everything
My "Open as Layers in Photoshop" option is disabled. How can I fix it? Please help. Or if there is any other way, please let me know
Can you send me a pic by IM in FB or IG plz
Really enjoyed learning about this process which is new to me. (I do more work in Lightroom than I do in Photoshop.) What is the size of the final file? How is this different from using HDR on just a few frames. Thanks for explaining.
Final file can be huge because of the stacking but in all i kept it the same resolution and the differowith this and hdr is that the shots are the same value, PS is just averaging all shots. Instead of getting a 32bit image
You said you have discovered this by using it to process milky way pictures... do you use a skytracker to keep the same frame?
MediterraneanBlood You can use tracker or allign in Photoshop. If auto allign won’t work then you have to do manual allign. Ian Norman has great tutorial on how to do IT.
@@MrRafalEn thank you very much mate
Hi Ivan, how did you switch that stacked picture form PS back to LR so quickly? Any shortcut or function? thx.
he cut that part
i didnt cut that part out since i exported all files from lightroom (edit in PhotoshopCC) when you save it as is in photoshop it pops open in lightroom without having to import it
What do i save it as? Save it where and what kind of file to be able to open in LR automatically? Thanks@@IvanFarca
Nicolas Anthoni it saves it in tiff most of the time but psd might also be saved
Thanks....
a very useful tutorial.
but I can't click on the menu "Stack Mode". Can you help me?
Did you do all the layers a "smart object"? and if so is the layer selected before going to the menu ?
Can JPEG images be stacked? I am trying with JPEG images but PS is not allowing me to use stack mode. Yes, I am selecting the smart object then proceeding for the stacking through smart object. Please help.
i havnt tried jpg but i dont see why it wouldnt work.
@@IvanFarca I did updated the PS today and was able to stack. Thanks for the wonderful video.
do i still need an nd filter using this technique?
i did use a grad filter to get the exposure right in camera.
Super