Birthday Real Estate Photography Edit (Because Why Not?)

Today is my birthday and you know what that means? More real estate photography!
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[@brokeforever]

Happy Birthday Brandon!

[@BrandonWattsREP]

Thank you so much!

[@zfranklin4231]

Good job

[@BrandonWattsREP]

Thank you!!!

[@VisiPianoOfficial]

Happy Birthday Brandon! Awesome video as always. Do you have any sharpening applies to the exposures in Lightroom or is that turned off and you only apply the Raya Pro Sharp No Edge at the end?

[@BrandonWattsREP]

Thank you so much!
I typically apply Raya pro in PS because it's easy to just hit that button.
As for LR, you can apply sharpening after the initial edit is complete and reimported from PS into LR. It just moves that one step from being inside Raya pro to instead being in LR. It's roughly the same amount of time spent.

[@jarekm4744]

The speed is awesome. Great job! Although this upper left big window is washed out a bit, and too much contrast to my taste. Do you flash a window for darken mode? Anyways, still 9,5 out of 10 from me.

[@BrandonWattsREP]

Thank you so much, you are 1000% correct. I had initially edited this image to have a nice sky swap so that those windows aren't as bright. Then as I recorded the edit, I went through the process so fast that I completely forgot to add the sky swap to the video 🤦‍♂️
As for flashing windows. I typically only do that if I want to do a detailed window pull. Otherwise if I am in a rush, I just expose my flash pop for the window highlights, then in PS I brush off the ambient layer on top of that window.
As for contrast, I definitely see where you are coming from. I know I add too much saturation and contrast for my style so I'm trying to work on dialing that back. Hard to help it when I came from a landscape photography background where I always added more color and contrast lol.

[@JimWildmanArt]

Hi Brandon, I purchased your mini course and not sure how to do the flash pop with your actions can you give me some guidance

[@hinmen2448]

Can you explain the custom action ? thank you~

[@BrandonWattsREP]

I shoot all my images exactly the same so that I have a single action take care of 90% of the editing for me.
For that to happen I always shoot in this order:
-3 exp bracket @ 2 stops apart
-Standard Flambient over-camera/tilted back flash pop
-2 side flash pops
The 3 exposures get turned into an HDR ambient file and becomes the 50% luminosity blend.
Then the 1st flash pop is duplicated and set to Darken and the other set to Color layer blend mode. These bring back color to the image and help remove unwanted flash pops from the next 2 flash pops on the left and right side of the frame.
I use the 2 side flash pops to help bring back shadows/contrast that normally get wiped out by regular flambient.
Most photographers with a higher skill set than me tend to not like how regular flambient wipes out the shadows because you basically using an on camera flash to full the scene. Forward facing flash is typically unappealing whereas this technique fixes that issue.