Welcome to the very first episode of this brand new feature I’m calling “Processing Subscribers Images“.
The acronym sounds a lot more exciting than the full name, so we’ll be abbreviating it to PSI most of the time 🙂
In this video I’m processing 3 bracketed exposures supplied by subscriber Jeff Fier, using advanced luminosity masking techniques to create a perfect blend between the bright sunrise highlights and the deep silhouetted shadows.
The episode went a little longer than I thought it would to begin with, at 40 minutes long you might want to grab a cup of tea or coffee before hitting the play button!
If you want to download the Photoshop Panel used in this episode, click the orange button above.Â
Or if you’d like to submit your own images for Steve to use in a future episode click the button below.Â
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Great presentation!
Steve
I have watched this video of exposure blending. In my opinion it is too long and some of the content of your video is confusing, and not straight forward. I think you are sometimes not very clear in explaining the steps in some of your videos, as in this one. If this is aimed at beginners, I feel some people would not have much of a clue what your on about, and even as someone who have done some exposure blending before, I did not find this video easy to watch, and lost interest in it after 20 minutes as it was too long and not easy for me to understand and follow. Sometimes you do talk a lot and repeat yourself over and over, and take ages to get to the point. You did invite comments, and I would rather be honest, and tell you my comments as to what I thought of this video tutorial. I hope you can see that I am giving you my opinion, and my not represent the view of what other people think.
Thanks for your comment Thomas, I appreciate your feedback always.
This video is the first in an ongoing series where as I mentioned at the start, I will not be rehearsing before hitting “record”. The aim is to provide more of an insight into some of the decision making I go through when processing an image for the first time. A bit more of an “under the hood look”, compared to my more structured “step 1, do this… step 2, do this…” tutorials. Each approach has it’s own pros and cons. With the structured courses, some people can find it more challenging to translate what they’re seeing to their own photos because A + B might equal C on my photo, but on theirs it might equal D, so the next step in the tutorial doesn’t work.
I was surprised to see the timer at 40 minutes when I stopped the recording… So I will be working on making these more concise and to the point as I do more.
Cheers
I would just like to comment on TR’s comment which I can understand and do partly agree with.
Firstly I enjoyed the Luminosity bits of the video but there was a bit too much “vagueness – perhaps” in the author’s telling us “what he is going to do”.
I didn’t think it was overly complicated , but clearly everyone is a a different stage of their Luminosity journey.
So: it is what it is, which is a real time worked example of using the end product during the actual process. By definition this is not a “how to do the basic procedure”. Steve has produced many videos, some free and some paid for which cover the basic techniques.
Personally, I like the bits that go wrong, or don’t work and need a different approach. This helps we understand the process and the rationale behind it.
You know, if it was just push “this button” and it changes to perfection with one stroke, it wouldn’t be any fun, and everyone would have the same image.
The advantage of any such video is that you can watch – the tricky bits – time and time again until you do understand it. Some of us are old enough to remember attending expensive lectures or seminars when you got one shot at taking it in and if you were lucky went away with a set of typed notes.
If you have a problem with any section, try making notes and then file them in a logical manner to refer to in the future.
I am sure these video work-throughs will get slicker and quicker as Steve gets more under his belt.