The SECRET for BEAUTIFULLY EXPOSED PHOTOS

Everyone knows exposure bracketing, most however never use it to its full potential! Here is how I hugley improved photo quality by adjusting the AEB settings!

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0:00 Intro
0:33 Why use AEB / Exposure Bracketing
4:10 More Dynamic Range with 5-Shot AEB
5:40 Small downsides
7:02 Editing 5 shot HDR
7:30 Merging HDR
7:58 Basic Adjustments
11:03 Masking
15:00 Color Grading
16:07 Sharpening

[scandinavianthinking]

Christian, You have made a clear point about exposure to capture all the perfect details in the highlights and in the shadows!
Your demonstration of the beautiful exposed photos, and later on, about the HDR merged photo adjustments in the Lightroom is brilliant and insightful.
I am very inspired by what you have crated, I learned more about exposure.
I am grateful for your help! Thank you so much!

[stephenschmid]

Nor sure about other brands, but on Fujifilm cameras, you can bracket in one direction, + or -, rather than both + and -. I like to set my base photo to maximum exposure, and then bracket with darker exposures from there. That way I always know my slowest shutter speed.

[ADRANBUTTN]

As someone new to using lightroom, this is a simple straight forward video, really helpful, and the added resource files to work along and learn is a brilliant move. Looking forward to picking up more tips.

[sutv]

Bravo again. I have been living on your channel. Learning so well and much.

[charliesaigon]

Hello Christian, I just wanted to thank you for all the work you put into your posts. I have learned so much from you about editing in Lightroom.

[judyboyd]

I really like your videos and this one explains why 5 shots are better than 3. I always use bracketing for landscape because of the sometimes extreme light changes in a scene. I apologize for the rudeness of others. Please just continue to make these valuable training videos.

[stephendasilvamadeira]

This video is GOLD! Thanks so much for this! Found this video right before my biggest personal trip. Very handful

[dancejam]

Christian, First time to your channel. I really have to commend you, for a nice, concise, and relatively complete review and explanation. I'm a relatively new photographer (wonder when I'll stop saying this) and landscape is not the typical thing I shoot. That said, I did catch all the reasoning you used here and am just proud of not only your completeness, but both the graphic and photos that accompanied your video. Nicely done. The only portion I missed, if you said it, is that you're varying only your shutter speed for the higher DR/HDR shots, not ISO or focal length - but you may have covered that in other videos. Nice that you covered the few problems with HDR as well. Thanks for the video. I'm sure I'll look through your channels other topics since you were so good with this one.

[keithfoster]

Thank you Christian, I will check the video out. In the end I exposed 5 images all at different exposures manually, they blend perfectly in HDR in Camera Raw .
I have watched many editing videos, none of them match the quality of your teaching or your methods in CR, I have used CR for many years, to be honest, there is little else needs doing in Photoshop with the new Camera Raw features .keep up the good work.

[donhendricks]

Outstanding! I love your art and your style of teaching. Thank you so much for your dedication to excellence. With love from Atlanta.

[doneagle]

Great tutorial Christian!!! I can't wait to get out and try this...

[smalltalk.productions]

fabulous tutorial. thank you for the effort and the sharing. i am an intimated LightRoom novice so I find this vid very helpful. thumbs up.

[smalltalk.productions]

i so much enjoyed your tutorial on AEB that i went back to your full YouTube playlist. wow, there are so many thoughtful vids. except as an utter NOVICE, i am not sure where to start. have you ever done a vid on getting started in LightRoom and Photoshop? how do you ingest, organize and cull? i have watched vids about ingesting but it's how to organize and rename on ingest that i would appreciate knowing more about. again, thank you for the effort and sharing. thumbs up.

[steelynick]

Thank you, I have recently discovered your channel, and already I have learnt so much, very well presented and explained.

[patrikyribeiro]

Goodnight!! Congratulations on the videos! Can you bracket photos of waterfalls or long exposures perfectly? I was wondering if it would be a problem when doing HDR in Photoshop.

[robertgiguere]

Great video! Clear and accurate presentation

[afzalshaikhshahmahammad]

I am a firm believer in obtaining results s.o.o.c (straight-out-of-camera) as much as possible.
Editing should be a minimum usage of time. Yes, crop out what is not needed, apply HSL and print/publish/save.
It would make more sense for camera manufacturers to simply have a built-in solution to increasing dynamic range, activate this and apply as you see fit when capturing the image in the first instance.
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Very dismayed at how much much reliance/dependency is afforded to Editing Images.
I understand now why so many would-be-photographers consign their newly acquired kit/gear/equipment into 'storage'. Nobody wants to be an 'art-director' or 'editing specialist'!

[pauldevereux]

Hi, I have always used 5 AEB at either 1 or 1.33 stop steps on my canon 6dii. I’m going to have to go back and apply your masking steps Christian, they are just amazing especially the way you use multi sky masks. I have only used 1 mask in the past and it always comes out too harsh and weird looking.
Might try a 7 AEB for future shots.
Cheers

[strboogerflikn]

Would have loved for ypu to edit the one single image with same settings and then do a compare at the end. We could see how much the final HDL improves the image

[darrenmjones]

Thank you for another excellent tutorial Christian. I have a couple of HDR beginner questions. 1) Do you need an HDR monitor to be able to do this process? 2) When you complete your editing steps in Lightroom Develop, can you export the final image as a JPG, and is it a normal JPG viewable by any device or is it a special HDR file that can only be viewed on HDR-compatible devices? Thanks again.