EXPOSURE BLENDING FOR REAL ESTATE AND ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY - A "MUST HAVE" SKILL!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
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In this architecture interior / real estate video tutorial, I show one of THE MOST POWERFUL techniques you NEED to know if you want to be successful as an architectural photographer and that is exposure blending.
This video is thorough with the aim of helping you understand the process but also why we take the steps we do.
We'll look at preparing the files in Lightroom and then loading them as layers in photoshop. Then we'll use the "Apply Image" command on the masks to create a refined and highly detailed mask based on the brightness (luminosity) of the photos. From here, I'll show you how I use a technique called double masking to bring back the effect only where I want it, but now I can paint it in much more roughly and quickly.
The actual process only takes a couple of minutes, but the demo is longer to allow for a complete explanation. If you're interested in becoming an architectural photographer or upping your real estate photography, then learning luminosity masking and exposure blending is a must!
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This is the best for me. Just dived into real estate photography with big headaches on how to edit those images but with this life just got better and easier.
Hi mate. Glad this has helped. I've been adding more videos like this over on my dedicated architecture editing channel. It might be useful to you. bit.ly/ATArchitecture
Made sense, to the max. You’re an amazing teacher, thanks so much for your videos!
Aw, that's very kind of you to say so Mary.
Made Sense! Might have to watch a couple times more...
Another excellent video!! Thank you Anthony. I would love to see a full edit on the bathroom.
Very helpful. Thank you
Glad it was helpful Jay! Thanks for the comment 😀
A very good explanation of the process. I thought I was alone in using Luminar to finish off my RE images. I love getting that little extra pop there. I love the effort and detail you put into making this video. Subscribed!
it made sense to me! + bathroom please!!!!
great tutorial by the way! Thank you!!
You're so welcome David! Yes, the bathroom tutorial video is overdue. Thanks for the nudge :)
Bathroom vote from me. Great videos! I've done exposure blending to get this same look but I'm always looking for better and faster methods. Once I get caught up with my work I'll spend a few hours to watch more of your videos in detail.
Im Mori from Dubai, Thank you very much for your lovely videos and making this helpful tutorial for us, waiting for your next video, good luck bro 🙏🏻
Hi Mori. Thanks for your comment. Plenty of good architecture for you to shoot in Dubai. I love it there! Had a great trip with my wife and kids 2 years ago. Fantastic place.
@@AnthonyTurnham Thanks Anthony for reply, yes there is new property every day happening in Dubai so i really like to improve my architecture photography, I’m really glad that you had great time with your family in Dubai, i hope you can come again and do more architecture work, wish u all the best 🙏🏻
Made sense!! Thanks
You're welcome! Thanks for the comment Annette.
Awesome work Anthony 🙏
GREAT as always. I think it was explained as well as could be.
Awesome, thank you!
Just Marvellous thank you very much for taking the time and effort to go through that explanation. Bathroom
Glad it was helpful Gerald! I'm posting new architectural editing content to my new channel bit.ly/ATArchitecture I'll put the bathroom one on there.
Thanks Anthony. very good explanation that made a lot of sense.
Cheers Amir!
Anthony, Great video! One of the things that's really confusing to me as masking and more importantly layers. I'm just getting into the house photography and your explanation has helped me tremendously. Now all I have to do is practice, practice, practice… Thanks again
I hope the practice is paying off Steve 😀
Superb..... Any other videos like exposure bleeding interior
I've done a few. Check my channel playlist. I'll be creating more in the future too.
@@AnthonyTurnham what their is any virtual staging real estate images
Made sense! And bathroom 🙏
Made sense, great work!
thank you for the amazing explanation .bath room please.
Made sense, thank you so much.
Thanks for the help, that's very useful.
Made perfect sense and very helpful - 🙌
Glad it was helpful!
ur vids are amazing, so much info in each one
Glad you like them! Cheers for the comments!
this was great! thanks so much!
Great stuff! I would also be interesting in seeing the bathroom edit.
Cool Tivo. Cheers for the vote on that. If I get more votes on that I'll certainly do a follow up featuring the bathroom.
you're a legend man. Thank you for your contributions!
Thanks 🙏
Thank you for sharing this. I am just diving into real estate photography and this is one of the best tutorials I've watched. Your final image looks much more natural than the folks that cut out windows and create scenes our eyes would never capture. I look forward to watching more of your videos.
Hi Randy! Thanks for the comment. If real estate and architecture photography is you thing you'd probably like my newer channel I set up dedicated to the subject: here >> bit.ly/ATArchitecture
Made sense
Made Sense. Great tutorial Anthony. i've always been a flambient shooter for real estate, but these days, i'm going to get more into HDR. i like the idea of not carrying flashes and light stands.. Just a tripod, throwing the camera in AEB, 5 brackets, 2 stops apart. 2 sec timer, and getting out of there. I'm fairly new to editing HDR. I've created HDR in Photoshop and in lightroom and also using HDR in Aurora but i like to be in better control rather than taking my chances with the software, and this video helps tremendously.
Nice one Julian. You can even get the best of both worlds and combine an HDR from Aurora with other frames using this method. It's quite versatile.
The time spent on site with lights, IMO, really makes up for the additional time that would be spent editing an HDR. The less time in front of a computer, the better!
great job。。。really helped
Great to hear 👍
Made sense very well!
Thanks Roxanne. 😀
This is great! Very well explained. This technique has been eluding me for a while :-P
Made sense, thank you 👌🏻
This is THE video that should be shown for exposure blending. Had I seen this first, I would've saved a whole lot of time not understanding Raya Pro and would've had fewer shoots doing flambient. You the man Anthony!
Bathroom!! LOL. Amazing
BATHROOM DEMO PLEASE!
This is how I generally deal with those issues. I have never used Flash to deal with dark areas or windows. Mostly because of time constraints. What would you say is the better method? I shoot on Sony Fullframe and I do feel with 15stops I do have all the leaning way.
made sense
good to know. thank you
Made a lot of sense. But I hope you in future videos can address a couple areas that aren't addressed in this photo. There's some unnatural color tints around the oven and in the ceiling and floor of the dark living room. Also, the highlight at the right bottom corner seems quite distracting.
Yes, good spotting and all taken care of in my final deliverable. I just didn't want to make this video about too many things. I might put a separate "dealing with colour casts" video together...
@@AnthonyTurnham please, make a video about color casts!) you are good at explaining things
Great video! Love your content! Super helpful! Would love to see a side by side comparison with an automated HDR image done either in Lightroom or Aurora HDR to see the difference.
Hi Luis, Please subscribe to my other channel dedicated to architecture photography for more content on this topic :) bit.ly/ATArchitecture Thanks for watching and commenting!
Bathroom for sure. Great tutorial
Thank you! 😊
I'm curious, did you consider turning off all lights to capture the window without reflections? Nice video. Always like your work.
To be honest there weren't really any real reflections from the interior. Outside was way brighter.
@@AnthonyTurnham Why are there reflections in the window? Reflections can be seen in the window. Otherwise good job
@@291samuel It sounds like you may be referring to the night time bathroom shot that Anthony opened the video with. Indeed there are reflections in the window on that one, and yes, he could have shot an exposure with the interior lights off to show just the night time view out of that window, and then used that as a blend layer. I think Anthony might have thought you were referring to the daytime kitchen shot that he was using to demonstrate the blending technique for the video. Cheers 😄
Very informative and clear video, I'm fairly familiar with luminosity masks now but watching your process was super usseful thanks The only question I have left, is whether or not you ever use the levels control on your luminosity mask to tweak them further during your edit process, eg. to narrow the range of the selection. Thanks!
Hi. Great question. Yes. Absolutely I'll often refine my mask. I usually do this either by tweaking the curves (but levels would achieve the same thing, I just prefer using curves), or I'll run the Apply Image command a second or even third time to get more contrast in the mask.
I am probably wrong when I say this but doesn’t all this take too long to make it still profitable? Perhaps you get so good at it that you can do all this much quicker I don’t know….but you did do a really good job of editing.
Good point, but when I'm not recording a video I have the process down and it goes MUCH quicker. My clients do pay well for the images though, so I want to make sure they look as good as they can when I get them sent back.
My Lightroom (classic) won't 'open as layers' in Photoshop. I've tried looking for the answers here on RUclips.. haven't found anything clear and simple as to why it's happening. For now I suppose I can pull them in individually and then stack them but it would be nice it if worked as supposed to! Thanks for rest of video
What version of LR are you using? I prefer opening as smart objects anyway so the raw data is still accessible if needed. As yet LR doesn't allow to open smart objects in a stack. Bit of a pain and not sure why not...
@@AnthonyTurnham it’s funny my Mac laptop was the one not letting me open as layers.. But my Mac tower did it today just fine so I’ll just use the tower lol
highlights, but as this mask is very good for the window frame blend, it also killed the contrast outside in the bushes and such, you killed all the blacks over there 🤔. Maybe you bring it back later, haven't seen yet.
Ah indeed you brought it back, well done 🤙
Made sense! Thank you for taking your time and going into such detail!! Would love to see the full bathroom demo.
No worries Ethan. If I get some more requests for the bathroom edit I'll put a vid together. Cheers for the comment.
Very well done, indeed! Bathroom :-)
thanks for the video !! really nice editing
"Bathroom" entire process could be a great idea
Thanks Stephanie. I'm popping the newer architecture videos and follow ups over here on my other free training channel: bit.ly/ATArchitecture Hope to see you over there :)
Top ❤ made total sense, very well explained, very comfortable and well spoken voice. Thank you, Anthony 🙏
Highlights
Great video Anthony! Your level of detailed explanation is always so helpful!
Thanks Robert.
WHy would you do this if you have Aurora HDR?
Choices... yeah, I've got Aurora, but not everyone who watches my channel does.
How long does it generally take you to edit one photo. It seems like a lot of work. If someone wants to shoot 2 or 3 houses a day you wouldn't have time to sleep
Hi Ryan. Although it's way quicker when I'm not narrating and recording a video at the same time. This isn't the method I'd use for real estate work if you're wanting to turn around 2 or 3 in a day. This is more for architects and builders who are paying the good $$$ that warrant a higher end result. I've got other methods on my architecture editing channel which may be more appropriate.
Hi, Anthony I would like to see the comparison between manual exposure blending and photo merge HDR using lightroom or Aurora HDR.
That's a great idea for a video. Thanks. 😀👍
Thanks! I like the bathroom photo and I'm curious to know more about the edit, the result of the reflections and the cityscape looks beautiful and natural, well done!
Thanks Guillaume. I'm due to put that bathroom video together soon. A lot of people have shown interest in seeing how I edited it.
Highlights
Great tutorial. Thank you very much. This video will help for my future works. ♥️♥️🙏
Bathroom
Bathroom :) what did you do ? turn the lights off and mask it in ? minus the reflection ?
Good questions, bit I'll save that for the video... 👍
Wonderfully perspicuous! Bathroom please!
Thanks Geoffrey 🙏. Much appreciated. I'll probably post the bathroom update on my channel dedicated to architectural photography and editing. You can find here: bit.ly/ATArchitecture
Made sense, great video! Would be interesting to see the bathroom, please.
Wonderful, useful information! thank you for helping me make my real estate photos better. In the ''Apply Image'' box, which blending mode is best for this?
Thanks. Good question. Providing you're working on a blank white layer use multiply. If your mask is the wrong way around just invert the mask. If you're starting on a black layer use screen mode.
@@AnthonyTurnham thank you.
Great video again mate. Can we see bathroom please. Thanks
I'll put that on the video to-do list! :)
For the life of me I couldn't get this to work. Everything was done correctly, but the window pulls turn out muddy and ugly looking. It definitely pulls them down, but they look horrible. Any Advice?
Try lifting the brightnees and contrast of the exterior shot with a curve that's clipped to that layer. Adjust the curve until you get the result you want.
the reason we have exposure fusion in HDR software like Photomatix or what not is to avoid all that toiling work... ;)
The quality will never match manually blending tho
Yes, and no. Of course there's a time for HDR - I use it myself and have even made a few videos showing how I do, but the level of control and finesse this gives you certainly has it's place in a serious pros tool box.
did you still use this method or now adays u resort to the lumetri plugin method
Hi Alex. I use bit.ly/3dpGeub as a plugin to get my mask more refined and much quicker than this method. However, not everyone likes to buy plug-ins so for them this method is still very good. I always weigh up plugins as a business cost and how much time they'll save me so from that point of view, Lumenzia is a no-brainer.
Thank you for this, I am good with lightroom, Just added PS. I have 1 question that is stopping me from using it as the photos are to be sent for MLS. When you start a new file on photo shop it asks you what size. It has a bunch of pre programed ones. I am shooting in 4k and 3.2. I do not know which one to pic? If I choose the wrong size, won't that ruin the MLS listing? Or change the photo. May sound dumb but I am really new to PS and I can not find an answer for this. Great vids, learned a lot from you
Just import the photo / open the photo and the size will be automatically set to the pixel size of your sensor. You can then save the finished edit to whatever size you want during export.
thank you so much this was so useful, i've learned so much, bless you
Yesssss....bathroom.....bathroom...bathroom...lol great video.it totally made sense!
Super helpful. Thank you for your time.
You're very welcome!
Great video and very helpful, I’m shooting a dining room with large plate glass windows looking out on a pool. Very bright highlights on one side and shadows as you move further inside. I have to ask, on your image here, the table seems to have legs that lean to the left, is that optical or is it a strange table because everything else is parallel.
Good spotting! It's just the table design. I always find that strangely unsatisfying when a quirky angle of something makes it seem as if your photo isn't plumb. I think the table is kinda trapezoidal from the side.
That’s what I figured, everything else was way to scrupulously squared off. Cool table, but I bet it could really freak you out if you had been drinking 😉
At 24:59, you made a selection and then hovered over your layer mask with your mouse. What did you press to make sure your blacks were protected? It went kind of fast lol
This was fantastic. I've been shooting arch for 30 years! Started with film on 4x5. What a great technique you got here.
make sense, bathroom
plz help, how to disable LR auto-correction raw file. I shot with canon natural profile and when i importing to lr something happening in develop tab. auto contrast and bright a little bit my raw photo.
Just change the setting on the import dialogue box. Change "Apply During Import" to "none".
Which lens are you using for the camera?
I've got all that info listed in the description. The wide angle was used for this shot - and 90% of my architecture work.
A little bit, I'm taking photo classes at the local JC and one was an advanced editing class of which the first half of the semester was good but the second half was more photoshop and of course more intense. I had to drop it because if I didn't then the instructor would be doing my work and I did not want that. Hopefully viewing RUclips videos like this will make more understandable.
I hope the videos help James.
Made sense, bathroom. Great tutorial!!!!
Made sense... Thank you very much 👍🏻😊
"Bathroom" full edit video please
Thanks Sophie. That video is over due. Cheers for the nudge!
excellent! yes for bathroom edit video please!
Made Sense ... Thankyou for this tutorial
incredibly helpfull video. thank you so much.
Thanks! Great explanation of this method! A couple quick questions? 1) I can't find this video on your other channel, did you move it there? 2) Have you used/heard of Raya Pro? I know you use Lumenzia, but I purchased Raya Pro 3-4 years ago but never really got around to using it. I will probably purchase Lumenzia too but just curious. Thanks again!
Hi and THANK YOU. I really appreciate your support! Yes, I've used raya pro (Jimmy McIntyre's panel if I remember correctly) but I prefer Lumenzia. You may be right, this one might not have been re-uploaded on my other channel. I should probably do that! Thanks for the nudge!
Killer! Made sense - aloha from hawaii
Aloha!!! And Kia Ora from New Zealand!
This is tutorial is awesome and really helpful! Love it! What if the room is dim and don't get enough ambient light, will this method be sufficient or will I need to use an umbrella?
Just set your base exposure so the dim room is bright enough and then use this technique. Once you master it you can merge very difficult, high contrast scenes quite easily.
if this video was half the length it would have been twice as good.
Duly noted. What would you leave out? Cheers.
If speed of delivery is the issue, you know you can double the playback speed, right? I find myself doing that a lot on videos where I just want to consume the information more quickly.
You explained extremely well the double masking technique. 2 Questions: 1. If I use a luminosity mask created in the channels, is it the same as to apply image technique? 2. Do you have a tutorial as this one where you explain how to handle color cast, i.e., if we have lights on and they are yellowish? Thank you very much.
Hi. Good questions. While channels can be leveraged to create similar masks, it's not the same as apply image because we can utilise blend modes to create more contrast etc. The best option for control and finetuning your mask quickly but accurately is the Lumenzia panel bit.ly/3dpGeub With regards to further architectural editing techniques (colour casts etc) I's recommend my dedicated channel: bit.ly/ATArchitecture
AWESOME VIDEO! THIS WAS SUPER USEFUL
Awesome! Thanks. If you like this type of architectural editing you'll probably like the dedicated channel I set up: bit.ly/ATArchitecture it's got more examples like this and other useful techniques.
Great technique! I've been using Photoshop for over 20 years but I'm new to real estate photography and combining multiple exposures. I have watched a ton of similar videos in the last couple weeks, yours is the first I've seen use groups to double-mask a layer like this, and also the first I've seen use alt/option click on the mask to see the mask. Everyone else kind of treats the mask as some mysterious thing you can't see or interact with directly. One suggestion: Levels adjustment on the detail masks that you extracted from the image can be tremendous to dial in the intensity of the mask. For instance if there are shades of grey around the highlight areas of the mask but you really only want the strongest part of the highlight, you can adjust levels to crush the grey midtones into a harsher black+white.
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Perfect sense, Thank you very much I look forward to your bathroom edit.
Thanks
Do you have any videos on how you set up your camera (exposure, shutter speed, iso etc)? Everytime I try to do these hdr photos, it seems like Lightroom won't merge the photos together properly. Or would you recommend I do it manually in photoshop? Thanks!!
Hi Kylus, I haven't (yet) but that's a really good idea. When I put it together I'll post it to my channel dedicated to architecture photography and editing. Sub there for the latest content on the topic: bit.ly/ATArchitecture
Would like to see a bathroom video!
Cheers Gary, I'll see what I can do.
Thanx for the clear process, straight forward
Great video! Super Helpful!
Cheers Razio
Great vid Anthony! I'm still trying to master it, but you would love Jimmy McIntyre's Raya Pro 5.0.
I've got it. Its very good and kudos to Jimmy for what he's created but I like controlling my masks myself with curves. I just didn't go into that in this video as that's another level of complexity again. Just wanted to help explain the concept in this one.
Cheers for the comment and recommendation Martin!
made sense!
Made sense!