Master Flash/Ambient Blending: A Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Photo Editing
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2023
- Grasping the concept of flash/ambient blending may seem challenging at first, but with the right knowledge, it can transform your photos into vibrant, well-lit masterpieces.
This video is designed to walk you through the basics of editing a flash/ambient workflow in real estate photography, making it a suitable guide whether you're a seasoned professional looking to refine your skills or a beginner eager to learn.
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You can get a more natural and contrasty HDR blend by adjusting each exposure first so that the midtones are roughly in the same area. Pull the highlights down as needed for the darker exposure and lift shadows as needed for the brighter exposure to maintain the info there. Then when you blend, then transition points tend to have a more natural look to them.
Great video once again. I'd definitely buy your actions!
I have been watching your videos for some time now and find your editing system and general approach to real estate photography very smart and efficient, giving the best result overall.
If you are planning to release those custom actions, I encourage you to do so, and the timing couldn't be better, at least for me :) since I'm making my first steps in real estate photography.
Just like you have found your business mentor, I think I found an editing/photo one for me.
Thank you for all the work you put into these videos. It's much appreciated!
You're awesome and thank you for the follow! I'm working on some tutorial videos to go along with them. It'll go over the setup as well as how to use them in certain scenarios.
I realized that if I just release the actions with no how-to vids, that there would be an insane amount of questions that I wouldn't have time to always answer. So this should help both of us I would figure.
let me know if you have any questions in the mean time and I would be happy to help!
@@BrandonWattsREP You’re right, the how-to videos should definitely follow those actions. So far, the actions from your videos seem pretty straightforward in terms of what they do. The thing I look forward to is those adjustments for different cameras… A7IV in my case…
Anyway, thank you for the reply, I'm sure I’ll have a question or two along the way ;)
Your videos are great, I'm picky in what I like and you have to go be my second favorite real estate photographer RUclipsr right behind Nathan cool, keep it up!
You're too amazing, thank you! What parts of my videos do you like to see, so that I can continue to offer the same quality in future videos?
@@BrandonWattsREP it's your delivery and how to speak, the other big guys, you know who im talking about. just seem so animated, which would work for like any other style of youtube, but the people that watch this are trying to create a business. you just seem calm and confident which makes watching a lot easier
Are you using luminosity blending (Lumenzia) when you create your "HDR ambient" layer?
Love your videos...I would buy your actions. Thanks!
Thank you! I'm working on some tutorial videos to go along with them. It'll go over the setup as well as how to use them in certain scenarios.
I realized that if I just release the actions with no how-to vids, that there would be an insane amount of questions that I wouldn't have time to always answer. So this should help both of us I would figure.
let me know if you have any questions in the mean time and I would be happy to help!
What is the keyboard short cut you are using to creat the quick selections on the lights and door?
Such a great video thank you for the content, quick question why not merge in Lightroom before importing to PS?
Thank you! I'll be talking about this in another video, but basically you're wasting time by merging in LR before importing to PS.
By importing all the files per scene from LR to PS without merging, you're able to take a single action in PS and have it do all the work for you.
It takes 10 minutes to load all the files into PS, and 2 minutes to have the entire house blended by one action.
If you try to merge in LR you'll be taking 10 minutes before you even start to load the files into PS.
Another great tutorial, thank you. I'm shooting all HDR right now and trying to learn your method to improve my quality of shots. Do you have a go to setting for your AD600? I'm using a V860ii speedlight right now, what would you suggest for camera and flash settings to try and accomplish the same quality? I've bought your HDR action and will buy your future actions too.
Typically when it comes to flash power, that and the shutter speed (for the exposure bracket) are the only settings that change from room to room.
I like to keep my camera set to f/6.3, ISO 320, 1/200 for shutter speed when shooting my flash shots. With this set, I can usually get away with 1/4 flash power for large rooms, 1/8 for medium rooms, and 1/32 for small bathrooms and such, using my 600w.
@@BrandonWattsREP great! Thank you for replying, much appreciated.
I spend way to much time manually doing mine :/ ur actions/work flow is better
Hey Brandon.. just a heads up that the audio for the entire first section (where your discussing your business growth) seems to play left channel only
Thank you for letting me know. I was using my DJI mic for the first part and my Samson mic for the tutorial. I will have to check my settings on the DJI mic and see if it was set incorrectly.
sir, how client choose photos that you shoot alot of perspective?
I don't choose anything, I just deliver everything. I shoot 3 shots for every main room like kitchen, master bedroom, living. Then I shoot 2 shots for the secondary rooms like bedrooms, dining room, bathrooms. For the exteriors I shoot 3 shots each of the front and back. usually comes out to 25 to 35 images depending on the size of the house.
How long does it usually take you to shoot when you're on sight? for like a 2500 sq ft home? Also I know you mentioned that you use cutsom wb in camera, do you ever change the white balance after you set it? Like sometimes I'll shoot a house and the living room and kitchen are like beige, but then the bedrooms have like blue walls or white walls then I have to change my wb a couple different times on sight. Do you change it on sight or just change the wb in lightroom?
If nobody is home and I don't have to move anything around, it can take 30-45 minutes to run through a house. I shoot 3 shots for every main room, then I shoot 2 shots for the secondary rooms. For the exteriors I shoot 3 shots each of the front and back. Usually comes out to 25 to 35 images, depending on the size of the house.
As for WB, I set that first inside the camera by taking 2 or 3 test flash pops, then I don't move it, even for the ambient bracket. I don't care about the WB for the ambient bracket since we don't need it's color values, only the luminance values. Due to this, I set the wb and leave it alone when shooting houses with all the same colored walls. For houses with different color walls, I set the wb to the main color, then when I get to the rooms with different colored walls, I set the wb to auto and quickly move on. I don't have time to waste trying to figure that part out, although I could if I had time and really wanted to deal with it. Then in LR I will manually adjust the necessary frames and that's it, before importing to PS.
@@BrandonWattsREP Awesome, thanks! Been loving the tuts, can't wait for you to release all of the actions! keep it up!
I'm commenting as I'm watching lol sorry for the spam, but question for you sir, the flash pop you do above the camera, that you then turn into a darken/color repair, do you ever use the light from that flash pop? I guess it feels like the light from its being thrown away since you're only keeping the darkest parts? Then in the darkest parts, if soemthing was under exposed, it's colors would be all messed uo and orange right?
It's technically the opposite of how you stated. I find that by using all of the light from the darken/color layer can often cause discoloration if the light was either too bright or too dim. If it's bright, then the colors appear blue, though if it's too dim then the colors appear orange.
One way to alleviate this is to only use the side flash pops to brighten up the scene l, and to use the Darken flash pop for exposing for your highlights.
I'll make a video on this showing the difference
Good videos! Just wish they were shorter. Maybe consider chopping them up a bit more. Take care!
Thank you! I'm thinking of just editing one image per video now, hopefully that'll help out
@@BrandonWattsREP For sure. Definitely learning a lot from you, so thanks!
Ironic that your name has HDR in it thi
Lol, I started my real estate photography journey only using HDR. Now 10 years later, I use both HDR and flash either separately or together in the same process
hello i see the action is very good can you send it to me many thanks
Absolutely, I'm working on finalizing them now before I release them
@@BrandonWattsREP yes thank you very much