The Extremely SIMPLE Way To Photograph COMPLICATED Scenes | Landscape Photography Tutorial

Exposure blending and focus stacking can be difficult on their own, but what about doing both? This landscape photography tutorial dives into my easy process for complicated scenes.

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[helgefrederiksen]

Thx for a wellexplained, and for a foreigner slow-enough spoken, video without annoying background mu...noise. Makes me wanna skip the warm bed in the morning and get out. 😉

[NoDoSwLa]

Thank you. Something from the field and great explanations why you do what 🙏

[nightscapeimages.richard]

Great video Mike. Good to see you out there in the landscape again.

[kbruff]

Thank you for sharing this information

[mozzamhosein]

Another excellent video. You are truly simplifying photography for your viewers. Thank you for sharing.

[markjensen]

Thanks for the great video Mike.
Just did a bunch of these manual focus stacks on my D850. I noticed if I focus toggling in the viewfinder my focus point will record in preview but if I use live view screen it will not. With images in computer and camera present I could look back and see focus points in particular frames. I found this helpful with loads of images.

[KendraBardot]

Since you love shooting the Superstition Mountains so much there is a spot where Brown road ends and turns into dirt. If you head east towards the mountain on that dirt road there is a little hill with a rock quarry and I have yet to run into anyone there, so many potential options for foreground shots and you can even avoid photographing the houses on the bottom of the mountain if you position correctly. There is a shortcut to this from Mountain View Road though it's harder to explain where it's at.

[CihanZ]

Excellent start and finish workflow, Thank you so much.Maybe i would use my soft ND grad filters for this case.

[phynx]

Dam you make it look easy, of course that beautiful scenery helps. great tutorial 🌵☀👍

[ramonadato]

Hi Mike, Is it possible to blend together two images in Lightroom, one sharp and the other long exposure? For example, sharp and frozen in time beach grass or tree leaves, while still having the long exposure of the clouds and/or waves? Thanks for any tips.

[manual]

Great video just wish we could see what you are seeing on the camera screen.

[jamesgolando]

Thanks for another great video. One question, why did you manually focus stack rather than use the in-camera auto focus stack and then take the single exposure for the sky?

[tjsinva]

Nice rundown. You can breathe now. Just another reason why I won't be moving to Arizona, big ass hairy tarantulas. 🕷Might as well be a bear. 🐻 Rock on! 👍🥂

[jeffschreifels]

Starting at about 4:10, why did you glue a cucumber to the front of your lens? 😆

[tomjodis]

Is it safe to assume I cannot do focus stacking just using LRC - that I need to do it in PS?

[bens]

Helpful tutorial—thanks! But man you stressed me out every time you reached toward that cholla! (If you ever visit the desert, don’t touch the cholla. Not even with your boots!)

By chance do you conduct any workshops around Phoenix?

[pride]

can you do an iphone tutorial for this please?