- Bonjour madames and monsieurs,
this video I'm gonna show you how I retouch
very old Canon 5D Mark II raw files
with the new Aurora HDR 2018 for Windows and Mac.
(lively music)
Bonjour madames and monsieur, my name is Serge Ramelli
I'm a French photographer from the beautiful city
of Paris, France, living in Los Angeles, California.
I make one or two tutorials per week.
This week I want to show you the new Aurora HDR 2018
that just came out for Windows.
I'm using the Mac version, but it's out for Windows
and it's the same version.
What I've decided to do is to take some old
Canon 5D CR2 raw files from seven years ago
and retouch it with this new technology.
I love that when a new technology comes out
to just try old raw files and see what happens.
Well, I love the result.
So here is the Aurora HDR 2018 Mac and Windows.
Alright so, one of the things that I did
when the new version of Aurora HDR came out, the 2018,
is that I revisited some old photography
to see if I could get something out of it
using this new technology.
So for example, this is something that I shot on
a Canon 5D Mark II back in 2011, seven years ago.
14 November 2011 at 6:28, 18:28, right at sunset.
It's an HDR shot of my favorite stairs in Montmartre,
and I wanted to redo this in Aurora HDR.
So I'm going to select all three photos,
I'm only using Lightroom as sort of a platform.
You can use it as a standalone, I'm gonna go export
and I'm gonna go to Aurora HDR 2018, open original image.
What that's gonna do is that is gonna
launch the software, I'm gonna make sure alignment is on
and click HDR.
That's gonna launch what we call the tone mapping
where the software tries to get the best
out of all of the exposures.
Alright, so here I am.
So I could go here and use the preset.
You see here, when you click on that,
you can go full screen, this little thing,
or you can use presets.
Right now I'm using the Serge Ramelli presets,
there is some other presets which you can see here.
Captain Kimo, Dramatic, Trey Ratcliff is
coming up with preset, I can go to basic presets.
In this case for once I'm not gonna use preset,
I'm gonna click reset all here.
So it's gonna be completely fresh, and I'm just gonna
retouch it completely from the start.
But I'm gonna be using layers.
That's the thing that's amazing about it.
So I want to warm up the photo,
so I'm gonna warm it up, add a little bit of magenta.
I'm gonna boost maybe a little bit the exposure.
The good thing is I'm working on
three raw files at the same time.
I'm gonna bring down the highlights
so we get some more details in the sky.
I'm gonna open up the shadows like I usually do,
maybe not as much as, yeah why not,
let's try the Lightroom flow.
Open up shadows, I'm gonna do my black, and my white.
And this I could do in Lightroom but
you will see there's a few things you can't do in Lightroom
that you really need that software for.
I'm gonna add a bit of saturation,
I'm gonna add a bit of vibrance.
And let's see what else I could do here.
So HDR structure, I don't want to do
because I'm gonna do that on a separate layer.
Image radiance I'm gonna do on a separate layer, too.
Anything that I think is gonna be local
is gonna be on a separate layer.
Polarizing filter, let's give it a shot.
Let's give it a shot, I think it's gonna really
bring it more colors and more details, so let's see.
And you can see the before and after by clicking here.
Before
after
before, after, quite a change.
The HDR I'm not gonna do, the glow I'm not gonna do.
Okay, let's see what else we can do.
Color toning, highlights, shadows.
Yeah I don't know, maybe I'm gonna add a bit of
warm in the highlights to make more
emphasis on the sky.
And a little bit of blue in the shadows
to have a little contrast, maybe just a little tiny bit,
something like this.
Okay, dodge and burn, I will do this at the end
and vignetting yeah, maybe add a bit of vignetting.
So that's like my basic retouching.
Now comes the power.
I'm gonna click here, call add a new adjustment layer,
and on this one I'm gonna go crazy on the details.
I want to get more details
but I don't want to get it everywhere.
So I'm gonna go to HDR structure
and I'm gonna boost that and see what it gives me.
I like what it does here on the stairs,
I don't like what it does on the bushes, in the sky.
So maybe a little bit of that.
The radiance and glow I will do on a different detail.
HDR detail boost, I'm gonna boost the large detail
and maybe a little bit the medium detail.
I like that but not everywhere,
I just like it on the stairs, you know?
And even it's a little too much.
Okay, that's good, so now I have a layer and I did that
on the layer but you see here I have a little brush.
If I click on that brush, now I have a brush
and I can go here and size,
I'm gonna make this a much bigger brush.
Opacity a hundred, softness a hundred, that's good.
And I'm just gonna brush on the stairs.
And you see as I do that, it created a mask, okay?
It created a mask, you see the mask here is
black everywhere, there's only a bit of white here.
Black conceals, white reveals,
so it's only gonna reveal this HDR look
only on the stairs.
But check it out, if I show you the before,
before that layer
and the after.
Okay, so I'm gonna keep on brushing.
So I only want this to influence the foreground.
I like this Paris look to really come to life.
But I don't want this on the rest.
So let's see the before
you see? And the after.
Very subtle, but I'm only doing this sort of HDR look
only on the bottom, I like that.
Maybe it's a little strong, so I'm gonna lower
the opacity of that layer.
I mean it's so well made you can just
really tailor make your photo.
Okay, now I'm gonna go here, I'm gonna go
add a new adjustment layer and this time
I'm gonna go the opposite.
I'm gonna use the amazing glow.
I'm gonna add some glow.
I'm gonna add some radiance, I love the image radiance
what it does to the photo.
So it's kind of the opposite of details, you know?
I'm making everything sort of glowy.
And I think I'm gonna add a bit of saturation on this one.
Not that much, but a little bit of saturation.
A bit of exposure.
Yeah, a little bit of it.
So I'm doing all that but since I still have the brush,
remember I have the brush?
Right now our mask is black.
I don't want this everywhere, I just want this here
so I'm gonna paint here.
I'm gonna paint around the lamp.
At the bottom of the lamp.
And I'm just gonna paint maybe just where the sun is,
just a little bit of glow just there, okay?
Let me show you that's the before the glow.
And that's after the glow.
Okay, now I'm gonna add one more layer.
This time it's gonna be kind of like my final layer.
I think the overall photo is, and I love to be able to
do layers on layers on layers.
I think on this one I'm gonna do a little HDR enhance
on this final pass.
A little bit, maybe lower a little bit again
the highlight a little bit.
Lower a little bit the overall exposure to get it
like a more night look.
And on this one I'm gonna do some dodge and burn.
So I'm gonna click here, and that's a new option
that is in 2018, I'm gonna click on start painting.
I'm going to go and I'm gonna take the size
and boost the size of my brush.
And I'm gonna do some dodge and burn.
I want to add some light here,
just like if it was casting some light from the lamp.
There you go.
And maybe around here.
Just a little bit, I love how the dodge and burn is
very subtle, it's not huge but it's very subtle.
And it's funny, 'cause I've done this for like
two, three times to prepare the tutorial
and every time I come with a different result,
and I really like it.
Alright, once you're done with the dodge and burn
you have to click on done here, voila.
So the dodge and burn is done and I want to show you
the overall before and after.
It's quite a change, quite a change.
I think on this one I'm gonna apply it.
I always like to work in Lightroom,
so it's gonna bring it back into Lightroom.
Let's open up Lightroom now.
Lightroom, and I always like to do a little last minute,
I like to always add a bit of contrast in Lightroom.
Maybe open up the shadows just a little tiny bit.
Just do a little bit of retouching there.
I think I'm going to crop, first before cropping
I'm gonna go to Lightroom into the upright function.
I'm gonna click on auto to make it straight.
And maybe I'm gonna crop all that graffiti
that I really don't like and just maybe go here,
something like this, so that we are more on the lamp
or maybe the rule of thirds just be like this.
I can try, and voila, so that's the original photo.
Let me show you in full screen mode.
And I love the mood of it, you know?
I need to go to Photoshop and clean up
some of the dust because it's a very noisy photo.
I could have used a noise function in,
there's a bit of noise and spots here that I can do
in Photoshop or in Lightroom, but you get the idea.
I just love that shot.
And I want to show you another one.
So this one, it's just a single raw file.
I'm gonna go right click, export into
the new HDR Aurora 2018.
So you can also do HDR, you can use the software
just with one photo which I think is really cool.
So in this one I'm just gonna do,
I'm gonna reset all, I'm not gonna use preset.
I'm just gonna add a bit of yellow because
I remember I shot this with Matt Peskosky,
beautiful sunrise in Paris.
This was also years ago with 5D Mark II,
that's why it's so noisy and so dirty.
The 5D Mark II I used to have,
no matter how much I used to clean it
the dust was like unbelievable.
So I'm just going to do like a very basic retouching.
Maybe open up the shadows a little bit,
bring down a little bit some of the highlights, the whites.
So I always do like a basic pass and
then I take one more layer, 'cause that's the whole
purpose of this software is layer.
And I think on this one I want to make the sky
very glowy, plus there is a lot of noise,
so I'm gonna take out some of the noise.
I'm gonna add some radiance, I'm gonna add some glow.
Where is the glow?
Here is the glow.
To make like a bit of a haze.
Then I'm gonna paint that only on the sky.
All over the sky and here on the water.
I want the water to be very glowy
because it was very noisy.
And you know, voila.
So you can see before my glowy layer,
before the glowy layer,
and after.
Already we don't see so much,
we had a bit of haze in the morning.
And I want to do the opposite with the Pont Neuf itself.
If you ever come to Paris go to the Pon des Arts
that's the wooden bridge I'm sitting on,
it's called the Pon des Arts, and take this photo.
Every morning it's a different show.
The sun rises behind the Seine River
and if you're lucky that you can see the sun
you get photos like this, it's unbelievable.
And that show is almost every morning.
I think that's one of the nicest views in Paris
that's one of my favorites anyway.
Okay, so this layer I'm gonna go the opposite.
I'm gonna use Photoserge local details here, boom.
I can click on here and that's gonna bring out
a lot of details.
Look how ugly it is on top and the bottom
but it's very nice here.
So I'm only gonna paint it here but it's a bit dark
so I'm gonna open up the shadows
on my local details even more.
Even maybe boost a bit the exposure.
Now I'm just painting that effect only on my bridge.
Okay, and voila.
Yeah, I like that, maybe a little too much
so I'm gonna lower the opacity of that layer.
And I'm kind of happy with it.
Let me see, let's do one last adjustment layer.
I always do sort of a last one, okay, what else can I do?
Maybe add a little bit of magenta because
my name is Mr. Magenta.
Maybe boost the highlights a little bit
to make it even more glowy.
Bring down the blacks so that we have a bit more contrast.
Maybe a little bit more saturation,
just a little little bit more, not too much.
And I'm happy with it.
Of course I'm gonna have to clean up the photo.
So let me show you the before.
Before, after.
And this is a very old file, this is.
I'm gonna apply this and go back to Lightroom.
I forgot to tell you, but I shot this,
what year was this?
This was 2011, it was 18 March 2011.
So you know, it's been over seven years now.
5D Mark II, so many dust.
It's funny how the technology of dust removal
in the sensor has, I used to spend so much time
cleaning up my sensor.
So here it is.
First of all so that I have less work to clean up
I want to make a pano out of this,
I'm gonna crop this and crop that.
So we have a nice pano.
Then maybe add a bit of contrast, 'cause I always do that.
And I would clean up a little furthermore the photo
and take out all the dust but, voila.
That's Aurora HDR 2018 with revisiting very old file.
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