hey guys and welcome back to part 2 of my rueful JPEG HDR extravaganza in part
one we had a little chat about what the difference between think these things
are and why you may want to shoot an HDR because our eyes and cameras see light
differently we went out we shot the picture now we've got it into Lightroom
and it's time for me to show you how I would treat that and how I would merge
those images so here we go here is our silhouetty shot because that's what
the camera would take then the one where we increase the exposure by a stop so
we've got a little bit more detailing rosy but the background is getting a bit
bright and then up by another stop when now we are really losing the background
if I just bring up the info here at the top here you can see we've got a
sixtieth of a second 125th of a second and a 250th of a second in order to
capture the background the mid-tones and then the real deep shadow areas which
was Rosie's face and what we're going to do is end up with an HDR between the
three that looks something like that one first off I'm just gonna remove that
because we can start all over again right here we go so here are our three
raw files first off we're going to photo merge them to do that it's really pretty
simple you just click the three we go to photo merge there it is HDR we click on
the button and now Lightroom is beavering away in the background it's
having a look at all the bright areas and the dark hairs it's looking at ways
in which to combine them well it does it let's have a look on the right here Auto
align if something moves a little bit between exposures they may just kind of
need lining up a little bit Auto tone is like it's going to do its best guess
that kind of auto developing the raw file for us now I'm not saying it's
gonna be right but it's a good starting place and then we can take it on from
there and work on it ourselves to get it how we want it to look d ghosting is
again about the movement it's about as something moved so like if Rosie moved a
little bit during the shoot then something may not be quite in the same
place and Lightroom does a really good job of just finding those areas and
putting them back together if we go down the bottom here show de ghost overlay
on that look you can see where it has done a little bit of work now it's
really interesting to notice that on Rosie about the only thing it's the only
thing - is that a little bit of hair on his shoulders she's kept absolutely
stopped still but could you like trim the tree has moved now this is why you
can't trust technology and software to do it all for you that tree did not move
it wasn't a windy day but there we go and I'm pretty certain the camera didn't
it was on a nice sturdy tripod d ghost amount this is the amount of d ghosting
that lightroom will apply this is the amount of work it will do to try and
line things up and he doesn't really need much lining up don't don't have it
set on high just for the sake of it I find the medium settings pretty good
these are all things that you can play with I'm not going to do it now because
it will then remake the whole HD I'm going to have to wait for it but
go and play with it yourself you know if you were some with a lot of movement try
a setting if you find that things are lined up quite nicely go for a lower
setting anyway here we go now when I click merge what like trim is gonna do
is to take those three raw files it's gonna blend them together up here in the
corner creating HDR and it's going to create them as a new raw file it's gonna
be a DNG a digital negative file which the Dobies own RAW format the great
thing with this is instead of like with older versions of lunch and where it
created a tear from your they're not to kind of photoshop if you want to fiddle
with it or you could fiddle with it in Lightroom you've now got a raw file
right from the scratch made from these three when that gives us the power to be
able to edit it ourselves so here we go I'll shiny new DNG file is at the end
here this is a new raw file which has been made by blending these three
together so if we just kind of compare that alongside the others what have we
got we've got the let's start here with a really dark exposure you can see
everything is mapping out really quite nicely it's almost there for us already
if we come to the next one up you can see the difference we're getting look so
this is one of the reasons why making an HDR is so
powerful it's not just about the hyper high-definition retouching doing work in
Lightroom is not about fixing something that's broken it's about making it look
natural it's about bringing about your own interpretation vision style the
emotions and feelings you had at the time of shooting and bringing that
across to your viewer because the camera can't do it the camera is just something
that records light onto a sensor and creates a raw file it has no creative
ability whatsoever that's you right if we look at our DNG file it does look
pretty bloomin good doesn't it Lightroom has done most of the work for
us I think some of the blacks could do with a bit more work just zoom in have a
look see what our sharpness is like that's very good I don't think it needs
any sharpening it needs any messing about I think the tones could do with
just a little bit of work maybe just a little bit more clarity just to lift it
a bit if you're not sure what clarity does these are all things covered in my
seven steps to perfect pictures course of which this is really a little taster
because we go into this in way more depth these images down here along the
bottom this is where we went for a much much greater high dynamic range and map
them together and in the course we go through that too I think we're looking
really pretty good I might give it a eat see bit more saturation because I like a
bit of color what I'm seeing is a little bit too much orange possibly and Rosie's
face so I'm just going to pop into HSL we're just gonna take some of that
orange down a little bit just to that's looking better
there we go that's looking a bit better that's much more natural really taking a
little bit out but it's made a difference and I think I'm gonna do just
a tiny eeny little bit of work on that background because to me it's turn a
little bit too bright I don't a darken the overall thing because I think the
tones look very natural to my eye but the background just a bit so I'm just
gonna take a brush and I'm just gonna reset it and using a mask let's just
mask it up and then we'll get to work on it
cool so that's Marsden now all we got to do is a little bit of work on it
I think the exposure just wants to come down just the easiest bit not very much
look at that that's probably all it needs look not even half a stop and I
think that has done the biz oh let's just have a look if I turn that on and
off look that's about all it needed and now that really does look the wave my
eyes saw it so there we go that's kind of the power of making the HDR but what
about just working on your raw file basically you know without making the
HDR what is the difference because if we look at this image here up in the
histogram we got a lot of data and we've got a load of tones so what is the
difference between an HDR well let's have a little look why don't we just
synchronize those two let's just pop those settings across whoops did it
wrong I want that one and that one I'm gonna turn that off and sync them up
same settings sync here we go let's have a little look now when you look at this
one it's just compare side-by-side I'm gonna put this one in here and we're
gonna put the the HDR in there now look they look almost exactly the same don't
they now this is gonna depend on your camera how great is the dynamic range of
your camera I found my little Fuji xt one has got an astonishing dynamic range
and it can almost cope with it on its own at this level when you go to a level
such as with those trees along the bottom here which I mentioned earlier
that's way way too far it can't but with this it can almost do it so what is the
difference well let's just zoom in down here and have a little look into a dark
area and this is where I see the most difference if you look at the one on the
left this was just a raw file and I really pumped those shadows up as far as
they go pretty much you see we've got quite a bit of noise it's because we're
pushing the shadows really hard when you brighten dark areas you start to
introduce grain and noise whereas on the HDR one on the right you can see that
grain and noise is a lot less prominent it's it's almost non-existent so that is
really the different so this is why I think it is
incredibly valuable to be shooting RAW files and making your own JPEGs as
opposed to leaving the camera to do it for you because the camera isn't
creative it doesn't know what you want so there we go I hope that's cleared up
a few mysteries for you a little bit about HDR rolls and JPEGs if you found
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