Hi Will. Thanks for your videos. It made me revisit Enfuse that I had not used for ... yearsss (I even found back the license I bought back then). Doing more HDR blending these days (for real estate) and was using lightroom HDR. Comparing side by side Enfuse seems to do a better job when there is bright windows but for some pictures, lightroom gives me a better result. So I'm doing both : once the photos are stacked, I run enfuse like you do, reimporting the result beside the stack, and then, (as my photos are still stacked), I run lightroom hdr in batch (which put the result on top of the stacks). As a result I then have both versions side by side and can quickly go over them and decide which one looks better to me. A quick trick in photoshop that will help you speed up your workflow a bit : when making your window selections with the pen tool, you can go over all your paths before transforming them to selection in once. As long as you close your path, you can start a new one without loosing the first one.
Hi Eric. Glad to hear you revisited Enfuse. As I always say its not about saying what I do is best, or even best for all situations. I typically use a hybrid setup like you do. Enfuse is my starting point but if I have issues or I feel the blend isn't what I wanted I then use a different method. You are not the first, and probably will not be the last to point out the way I use the pen tool. If that works for you great, I have never liked drawing all my paths then making them all selections. In fact I have found it to be slower for me. But if it works for you it doesn't matter, its just how I do it and what works for my brain the best. I will be the first to tell you there is probably hundreds of things I do that are not optimal nor the best way, its just what works for me.
Thank you. Absolutely. Honestly the response from all this has been a little greater than antiscipated. But we are figuring it out as we go and your feedback is appreciated. Lots more to come.
I came across your channel a few days ago and was interested in your workflow. You are one of the few real estate photographers using luminosity masks. I watched your video a couple times and you were moving too fast to track and with too little narration of your steps. Would you please consider doing a "luminosity mask" tutorial and taking it step by step, explaining what you are doing, how you are moving the layers around in Photoshop and what modes you are using (Darken, Lighten, Luminosity, Color, etc.). At this point, it appears you are doing some effective editing, but there are not enough details to replicate your workflow. I feel like a dog watching someone play chess... The real challenge I have been chasing is to get good window pulls. Was shooting HDR using the Lightroom Merge function (will look into LR Enfuse at your suggestion). Been using a flash in the past couple months to produce a Luminosity 50/50 blend (ala Nathan Cool). But I have seen Raya Pro and Lumenzia and a couple other tools like that but almost all the online tutorials for those products are for landscape photography. Maybe you could compare doing a Darken Mode window pull with a flash (ala Rich Baum) to the same photo using Raya Pro and compare the workflow steps? I subscribed and will be watching for your upcoming tutorials. Thank you for taking time to share your expertise with the real estate photographer community on RUclips!
Absolutely I can make a tutorial. It's funny when I do a tutorial I get comments asking me to show me doing it in real time because the tutorial is too slow and when I do that I get comments asking me to slow down. lol This video was supposed to be at a really fast pace because I wanted to show people it is possible work at speed and not take hours to get photos done. But I will happily make a full tutorial breaking down everything I do at a much more even pace. I appreciate the comments and feedback! The biggest thing is that there is not a one-size-fits-all all approach to this. I will go into more detail in the tutorial but being able to switch window pull methods on the fly is going to be the best skill to have. The darken mode works really well for most cases but there are certain areas it falls short. Again, really appreciate the constructive feedback, and look for a tutorial soon!
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Hi Will. Thanks for your videos. It made me revisit Enfuse that I had not used for ... yearsss (I even found back the license I bought back then). Doing more HDR blending these days (for real estate) and was using lightroom HDR. Comparing side by side Enfuse seems to do a better job when there is bright windows but for some pictures, lightroom gives me a better result. So I'm doing both : once the photos are stacked, I run enfuse like you do, reimporting the result beside the stack, and then, (as my photos are still stacked), I run lightroom hdr in batch (which put the result on top of the stacks). As a result I then have both versions side by side and can quickly go over them and decide which one looks better to me.
A quick trick in photoshop that will help you speed up your workflow a bit : when making your window selections with the pen tool, you can go over all your paths before transforming them to selection in once. As long as you close your path, you can start a new one without loosing the first one.
Hi Eric. Glad to hear you revisited Enfuse. As I always say its not about saying what I do is best, or even best for all situations. I typically use a hybrid setup like you do. Enfuse is my starting point but if I have issues or I feel the blend isn't what I wanted I then use a different method.
You are not the first, and probably will not be the last to point out the way I use the pen tool. If that works for you great, I have never liked drawing all my paths then making them all selections. In fact I have found it to be slower for me. But if it works for you it doesn't matter, its just how I do it and what works for my brain the best. I will be the first to tell you there is probably hundreds of things I do that are not optimal nor the best way, its just what works for me.
Great stuff , enjoyed this. Would love to see your presets and actions in more detail at some point. Just to compare my workflow. Thanks.
Thank you. Absolutely. Honestly the response from all this has been a little greater than antiscipated. But we are figuring it out as we go and your feedback is appreciated. Lots more to come.
I came across your channel a few days ago and was interested in your workflow. You are one of the few real estate photographers using luminosity masks. I watched your video a couple times and you were moving too fast to track and with too little narration of your steps. Would you please consider doing a "luminosity mask" tutorial and taking it step by step, explaining what you are doing, how you are moving the layers around in Photoshop and what modes you are using (Darken, Lighten, Luminosity, Color, etc.). At this point, it appears you are doing some effective editing, but there are not enough details to replicate your workflow. I feel like a dog watching someone play chess...
The real challenge I have been chasing is to get good window pulls. Was shooting HDR using the Lightroom Merge function (will look into LR Enfuse at your suggestion). Been using a flash in the past couple months to produce a Luminosity 50/50 blend (ala Nathan Cool). But I have seen Raya Pro and Lumenzia and a couple other tools like that but almost all the online tutorials for those products are for landscape photography. Maybe you could compare doing a Darken Mode window pull with a flash (ala Rich Baum) to the same photo using Raya Pro and compare the workflow steps?
I subscribed and will be watching for your upcoming tutorials. Thank you for taking time to share your expertise with the real estate photographer community on RUclips!
Absolutely I can make a tutorial. It's funny when I do a tutorial I get comments asking me to show me doing it in real time because the tutorial is too slow and when I do that I get comments asking me to slow down. lol This video was supposed to be at a really fast pace because I wanted to show people it is possible work at speed and not take hours to get photos done. But I will happily make a full tutorial breaking down everything I do at a much more even pace. I appreciate the comments and feedback!
The biggest thing is that there is not a one-size-fits-all all approach to this. I will go into more detail in the tutorial but being able to switch window pull methods on the fly is going to be the best skill to have. The darken mode works really well for most cases but there are certain areas it falls short.
Again, really appreciate the constructive feedback, and look for a tutorial soon!
hey can you show how you set up your camera on the tripod? those vertical lines are straight af.
Absolutely I can. I am working on getting some time in one of my clients listings that staged and vacant. Hoping to get a few pieces filmed.