HDR Hybrid Technique to Combine Interior and Exterior Exposures - Simple Window Pull Technique

The set of high contrast images in this video are nearly impossible to merge with exposure blending / luminosity masking techniques. That's where this hybrid HDR method comes in. If you only have one way to bring back views from windows in your post production then you're limiting yourself unnecessarily.

If you've got a hang up about HDR photography (high dynamic range) due to all the people that over used it, over processed it, and made HDR photos look like a a surrealist illustration, please understand, that if it's done right, it can be a valuable tool for an architectural photographer / real estate photographer.

I'll work on this set of photos that have been sent in to me with a technique that combines the best of realistic HDR with best of underlying base exposure, allowing us to quickly and seamlessly bring back the views from outside. Even in this exceptionally high contrast scene that has images missing from the bracketed set.

We'll be using Adobe Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. For the HDR component I strongly recommend Aurora as it gives the most realistic blends with limited fuss. For finishing the image I do a quick edit in Luminar AI using the AI tools just to give our finished photo a helping hand.

Here are links to the HDR software and other useful tools mentioned in this video:

I hope this guide is useful to you. I put a lot of work into it. So if it is helpful I'd love to hear from you! Thanks so much for watching! 🙏 and share the love with a thumbs up and/or a comment 😄

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[nik_at_optik]

I love your videos!! I was wandering if at some point you could show as how you edit bulk in Luminar & Aurora I really struggle with that process :) Thank man! Go NZ! Keep Up the good work!!

[kirtg]

Thanks for the vid. All this could have been fixed with a window pull...

[zehavaperez]

interesting method..but SOO much work. Things seem to get overcomplicated in stead of easier... Just can't imagine doing all this time after time, day after day, and with each photo..

[sevenblah]

the next thing they could update is saving/exporting as a .dng so we could then edit everything in lr/acr, and work on the yellowing that happens or the white balance if you have anyone there that will listen to you those are just a few things, ive tried to get on there testing team but no one ever gets back to me...

[randymacneill]

Thanks for your videos, I really appreciate your willingness to walk through your editing techniques. I would like to see a video on how to straighten the light as you did here. Thanks again.

[RewDowns]

Anthony, could you link these raw files so we can practice with this method?

[amirehrlich]

Thanks for this video.
Would love to see a flambient comprehensive tutorial.
A tutorial on how to "fix" distorted lamps would also be great :)
Thank you

[gyulailevi]

great stuff !! this video shows perfectly, that the hdr method is far far superior than the old bracketed exposure with manipulated masks :] (and much faster of)

[benbigrasvirtualtourswebde]

would you say that Lunimar is better than Topaz labs? I've been looking at both. I have the latest (2023) Topaz Photo AI along with the sharpener and denoiser. I know you have used both because I see it in your menus in some of your videos when the menu drops down. OF course you would need to do the comparison today and not 1 year ago. I would just be curious what you opinion is.

[ab]

I am a french fan of your youtube channels ! congratulations for your fantastic work and dedication to share it ! thank you for your very smart and efficient work on those set of images. It was quite difficult with the chair just in front of the window to imagine the same result in using multiple masks and selection area .... we would love to stay longer in our clients' properties to do some flambient work or styling but real estate just want a quick job on site ... !

[laynetravis]

Hello ! please help...i bracket 1 stop 3 photos but my hdr look terrible need brushes etc but still.. maybe im doing something wrong

[mauiphotoman]

Do you have a link to a video that shows how you fixed that hanging light fixture? Thank you for an excellent video on your HDR Hybrid Technique!

[dagobertorocha]

Muito bom! Gostaria de mais exemplos de grandes diferenças de luzes, internas e externas.