Lessons
Class Introduction
04:44 2Bracketing
10:31 3How to Set-up Bracketing
02:54 4Tools to Capture HDR Better
02:09 5Scenes for Good HDR
07:49 6Process Images in Lightroom® & Photoshop
10:52 7Hyper HDR Style with Photomatix
11:39 8Post Processing in Lightroom®
07:56Lesson Info
Using Plugins to finish a HDR File
This edit is my second version of the file. This is my treated file. I might still go back to this picture, do some cropping, do some changing, do some transforming. Or do the next level of the process that I would do. Right-click, edit in, edit in Photoshop, CC2019. I'm gonna edit a copy with Lightroom adjustments. Now, I just installed this so I don't know if it's gonna work or not. For the longest time, there used to be a piece of software, like a software solution called Nik Software. Nik Software was the best, alright. They were so good they stopped developing it and even other companies would just keep developing and developing and they're like, "Is this stuff good, do you think this is awesome?" And I was like, "It's great." "It's not as good as Nik Software." And they were bought out by Google. And Google was giving it away for free and then they stopped developing for it. And thankfully, a company called DXO picked it up. So the tool set that they have for that kind of stuff i...
s something that I've largely relied on. They just came back on, I just installed this laptop so I haven't gotten a chance to kind of fully get everything up to speed, but I wanted to show you one very specific thing. Because a lot of the times whenever I want to be able to do any kind of finishing, once I do the merging, and I get the tone map file done, that's one phase. Whether I do it in Lightroom, do it in Photoshop, or do it in Photomatix, that's one. The second phase is color and exposure corrections. Blending with original layers, blending with adjustment layers to make things brighter, make things darker, adjust colors, done. Last phase, special effects. Art sauce, alright. So inside of here, what I'll do is I'll come over to filter and I'm gonna go to nik collection, I'm gonna go to color effects pro 4. All of these different effects are effects that you could totally use. Now, inside of here, what I wanna be able to do is I wanna be able to find all of the different effects that I would normally work on. And some of these effects get a little "yeeh", alright. And... (whispers) This is were I wish I would have brought my readers. I'm gonna say I'm gonna go back here. And... Yeah, I don't like here. Filter library. There you go. I can't see. So inside of the filter library, there was one effect. Glamour glow. Usually used for like a soft focus effect. Here's the recipe in a can. Grab the glamor glow, grab the slider, drag it to 100. Take your shadows, open shadows, open the highlights. Give it a little bit of warmth, give it a little bit of saturation. And we're done. Click OK. That's it. Like I wish it were something else, like I wish it were good. But I'm just like, that's it man. What this does, this glamour glow thing does, it just takes a little bit of the bite out of the image. If you notice that when you work on the files, the files have a little bit of a kind of like "mm-mm". A little too much. Watch this. Before. After. Before. After. You still have that level of detail, it just softens it up a little bit, alright. I tend to think about it as almost kind of like a slight hot tip to a guy named Orton. I used to be the guy who used to do Orton photography. Or an Orton slide technique. Sometimes you'll hear about that. Were basically there were these exposures, these high exposures and the little exposures that were kind of blurred together and put together to do that one file. That's kind of what I was looking for when I was doing this kind of stuff. So that's kind of neat. Once I do that, save, close, put it on Flickr.
Ratings and Reviews
Liz Farrell
It truly doesn't matter if this instructor creates work that looks different from what I like to make. What I got from this course were skills I needed to try something new. (In my case, I watched this before doing some interior photography, knowing I would need to use HDR in Lightroom.) RC teaches you how to set the camera up for bracketing and how HDR software works (in Lightroom, Photoshop, etc.) Apply your own creative aesthetic once you nail down these basics and you'll thank him, too.
Wayne
Just what I was looking for. Basics of what HDR is and the basic steps to do it. I do not care yet about making it realistic or not. I can get into advanced features later, but I am strongly leaning towards non-natural, more impressionistic, looks.