And that's not even the best yet. Out of this one flash/ambient technique you could produce 3 different styles of editing which is what I do. I offer standard edits which are super quick edits. I also have high-end edits as well as an even higher-end edit that I typically just reserve for my portfolio. I'll be going over those in the future. I'm just trying to get people into this flashambient technique first before going more advanced
@@BrandonWattsREP I can't wait for that, even this to me is the best real estate work I've seen to date. I had almost given up on doing interior and real estate photography and did other genres that I wasn't really into but your channel single handedly sparked up my inspiration right back.
@@BrandonWattsREP I got one question about using a basic on camera flash instead of something like the ad600, since it's not powerful enough how would you go about getting a good amount of flash in big bright rooms? The only thing I can think of is waiting towards the evening for the ambient light to get darker to get the flash shots. Is there another way around it?
I shoot flash, for the look not for the speed. I don't like HDR look. Yes, with your actions you can edit flambient faster than HDR but it takes more time shooting flash then HDR, so I don't see lot of time saving here.
You are very fast and skilled at editing and looks like 5 + minutes for a good photo. A beginner will be slower and not as good quality. If 30 photos that's like 2.5 hours editing one house or more. Just trying to see how you can make money with time taking photos travel time and all other expenses. I see some saying they are doing 3 or four houses a day? What am I missing?
Thank you so much, my friend! I completely understand as I was in the same boat when I first started as well. It would take me 2-3 hours to edit a house as I was learning. The main thing that helps the most is actions. Now I can edit a house in about 1 to 1.5 hrs depending on the completely of the house. All I do is run my actions, and 75% of the work is done for me on each image. I have a video up in how to create your own actions. Check it out, and it hopefully should show you how to speed up your workflow. If not, shoot me a question, and I'd be happy to help you!
Depending on the type of house, I love it. You can either be realistic or stylistic. It's the same process, relatively speaking, you just drop the ambient layer and work with the flash pops. Be careful though. Working with flash only, means you have to really watch how your light crosses over. Without ambient, you can't smooth out any flash imperfections, so your technique needs to be on point.
@@BrandonWattsREP Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I think you are totally right. I started out doing flambient but I don't feel comfortable doing it, perhaps I still don't have the skills to do so, so I'm now doing just flash pops + window pull and the truth is that I love it. As you said, it's harder to control and less "automatic" than flambient but the result is much more natural (my humble opinion) and there is no margin for unrealistic colours whatsoever. I think it's my thing. Once again, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
On occasion but not as much. I typically just use an Insta360 One X2 for $400, pair it with the Matterport Capture app, and use their floorplan creator for $20 per FP. Takes 30 minutes to an hour depending on the size of the house.
The cheapest version is all you need. I bought the full plug-in with the course for $100 but the course isn't really needed so I recommend the $40 plug-in
Hey Tom, typically when shooting my flash pops, I expose for my highlights so that detail is always brought in through the windows and light fixtures through the Darken/Repair layer. If the view isn't that great though, then I might expose a 1/2 step brighter than what I normally would for the windows and wont do any window pulls. If you notice before the window pull in the F/A blended image that the ambient was washing over the bottom flash pops. This caused the window to be see-through in an opaque manner, compared to doing a clear see-through window in which everything in the window is clearly visible. My next video will briefly talk about this in which I state that I like to professionally blow out the windows in certain circumstances. This is basically it in which the ambient is washing over the flash pops rather than doing a full-on window pull. This is also compared to certain times in which beginners might blow out a window completely and you end up just having a bright window blob with no highlight detail. I prefer to have highlight detail retained in my windows, but also prefer not to make the exterior view be that important when it comes to a neighbors broken down brick wall right on the other side of the window.
Thank you my friend! Lumenzia is the very first step in my PS workflow for each and every image 100% of the time. I use some actions that come with Lumenzia that help to blend my HDR layers into one HDR file. It's the same as Merge To HDR inside LR and PS though I find that using those in my workflow just increases time. With Lumenzia I can just import all the layers I need into PS at once and run my action. This compared to first merging your HDR images before importing into LR saves so much time. Keep in mind that you don't need an HDR file and you could get away with using just a single ambient layer if you wanted. I just like HDR files as I find it makes sense to start with a clean base rather than something that doesn't have the same dynamic range as HDR bracketed images. Also keep in mind that you don't need Lumenzia to merge your HDR layers together and that if you wanted to, you could create your own action by following the steps in my "No plug-in, no problem" video. It's kind of the same as Lumenzia though not exactly and of course going this route just means you don't have to pay $40 for Lumenzia.
@@BrandonWattsREP I appreciate the lengthy and detailed response. Currently watching your "Full Flash / Ambient Real Estate Photoshoot (Entire Edit)" video which is another great tutorial. I owe ya beer, bud. Thanks
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I always prefer to shoot flambient instead of HDR. My clients are quite happy with my works and that's good for my business.
Flash ambient has that super high end feel to it, looks like it could be in a magazine.
And that's not even the best yet. Out of this one flash/ambient technique you could produce 3 different styles of editing which is what I do.
I offer standard edits which are super quick edits. I also have high-end edits as well as an even higher-end edit that I typically just reserve for my portfolio.
I'll be going over those in the future. I'm just trying to get people into this flashambient technique first before going more advanced
@@BrandonWattsREP I can't wait for that, even this to me is the best real estate work I've seen to date. I had almost given up on doing interior and real estate photography and did other genres that I wasn't really into but your channel single handedly sparked up my inspiration right back.
I love to hear it and I'm definitely glad that I can help in that regard! If you ever have any questions just let me know.
@@BrandonWattsREP I got one question about using a basic on camera flash instead of something like the ad600, since it's not powerful enough how would you go about getting a good amount of flash in big bright rooms? The only thing I can think of is waiting towards the evening for the ambient light to get darker to get the flash shots. Is there another way around it?
You'll need to increase your iso or open your aperture. I'm at iso 320 to 500. You might need to go up to 600 or 800 iso for bigger rooms.
I shoot flash, for the look not for the speed. I don't like HDR look.
Yes, with your actions you can edit flambient faster than HDR but it takes more time shooting flash then HDR, so I don't see lot of time saving here.
keep up the good work! Gods work.! big fan
Do you have a video on how you made that action? 9:55
hey an you do a video only using flash, plus editing process? thanks
After watching you draw in the window I think I will go ahead and invest in fla$h.
are you using a camera app to trigger the flash?
Loved the jazz too
Fantastic thanks for sharing. I’ve been working on setting up my workflow to match yours and it’s just brilliant- thanks!
Always happy to help! Thank you so much for checking out the videos and please let me know if you have any questions!
You are very fast and skilled at editing and looks like 5 + minutes for a good photo. A beginner will be slower and not as good quality. If 30 photos that's like 2.5 hours editing one house or more. Just trying to see how you can make money with time taking photos travel time and all other expenses. I see some saying they are doing 3 or four houses a day? What am I missing?
Thank you so much, my friend! I completely understand as I was in the same boat when I first started as well. It would take me 2-3 hours to edit a house as I was learning.
The main thing that helps the most is actions. Now I can edit a house in about 1 to 1.5 hrs depending on the completely of the house. All I do is run my actions, and 75% of the work is done for me on each image.
I have a video up in how to create your own actions. Check it out, and it hopefully should show you how to speed up your workflow. If not, shoot me a question, and I'd be happy to help you!
@@BrandonWattsREP this is so helpful. Thank you for taking the time to share these videos.
Brandon, what’s your opinion about all flash + window pull for interior photography? No ambient shot just several flash pops. Thanks
Depending on the type of house, I love it. You can either be realistic or stylistic. It's the same process, relatively speaking, you just drop the ambient layer and work with the flash pops. Be careful though. Working with flash only, means you have to really watch how your light crosses over. Without ambient, you can't smooth out any flash imperfections, so your technique needs to be on point.
@@BrandonWattsREP Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I think you are totally right. I started out doing flambient but I don't feel comfortable doing it, perhaps I still don't have the skills to do so, so I'm now doing just flash pops + window pull and the truth is that I love it. As you said, it's harder to control and less "automatic" than flambient but the result is much more natural (my humble opinion) and there is no margin for unrealistic colours whatsoever. I think it's my thing. Once again, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
The market your in do you have to do floor plans? Its the one thing I don't like about the Boston market they all want floor plans.
On occasion but not as much. I typically just use an Insta360 One X2 for $400, pair it with the Matterport Capture app, and use their floorplan creator for $20 per FP. Takes 30 minutes to an hour depending on the size of the house.
About LUMENZIA which should I buy for action creation and usage?
The cheapest version is all you need. I bought the full plug-in with the course for $100 but the course isn't really needed so I recommend the $40 plug-in
If the outside view through a window is not pleasant, how do you approach it??
Hey Tom, typically when shooting my flash pops, I expose for my highlights so that detail is always brought in through the windows and light fixtures through the Darken/Repair layer.
If the view isn't that great though, then I might expose a 1/2 step brighter than what I normally would for the windows and wont do any window pulls.
If you notice before the window pull in the F/A blended image that the ambient was washing over the bottom flash pops. This caused the window to be see-through in an opaque manner, compared to doing a clear see-through window in which everything in the window is clearly visible.
My next video will briefly talk about this in which I state that I like to professionally blow out the windows in certain circumstances. This is basically it in which the ambient is washing over the flash pops rather than doing a full-on window pull. This is also compared to certain times in which beginners might blow out a window completely and you end up just having a bright window blob with no highlight detail.
I prefer to have highlight detail retained in my windows, but also prefer not to make the exterior view be that important when it comes to a neighbors broken down brick wall right on the other side of the window.
Hello Definitive HDR Photography! 9:40 What key and function are you typing? 🧐🧐🧐
Check out this video for a breakdown of the action that I used: ruclips.net/video/RAAK2wDQWQo/видео.html
@@BrandonWattsREP Thank you very much 😍😍
Another great video, thank you. Side question for you....Is Lumenzia a normal tool you leverage during your real estate workflow?
Thank you my friend!
Lumenzia is the very first step in my PS workflow for each and every image 100% of the time. I use some actions that come with Lumenzia that help to blend my HDR layers into one HDR file. It's the same as Merge To HDR inside LR and PS though I find that using those in my workflow just increases time.
With Lumenzia I can just import all the layers I need into PS at once and run my action. This compared to first merging your HDR images before importing into LR saves so much time.
Keep in mind that you don't need an HDR file and you could get away with using just a single ambient layer if you wanted. I just like HDR files as I find it makes sense to start with a clean base rather than something that doesn't have the same dynamic range as HDR bracketed images.
Also keep in mind that you don't need Lumenzia to merge your HDR layers together and that if you wanted to, you could create your own action by following the steps in my "No plug-in, no problem" video. It's kind of the same as Lumenzia though not exactly and of course going this route just means you don't have to pay $40 for Lumenzia.
@@BrandonWattsREP I appreciate the lengthy and detailed response. Currently watching your "Full Flash / Ambient Real Estate Photoshoot (Entire Edit)" video which is another great tutorial. I owe ya beer, bud. Thanks
That one shows a lot of the process. I hope to make some better ones in the future
Awesome