- Bonjour, mesdames et messieurs!
In this episode, I wanna show you
how to do an HDR Panorama in Lightroom.
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Bonjour mesdames et messieurs!
My name is Serge Ramelli.
I'm a French photographer from the amazing,
the incredible, the romantic city of Paris!
But I'm in New York right now
working on my color book of New York City,
and I wanna talk to you about a new feature
that just came out on Lightroom: HDR Panorama.
I'm giving you all the raw files
so you can do your own pano HDR.
Click up there to get the raw files
or the link down below the video.
Let me show you how to do an HDR Panorama in Lightroom.
Okay, there is the new option that came out,
if you go to Lightroom, About Lightroom Classic,
it should be Release 8.0, and that's been something
I've been waiting for a long time, which is Panel HDR.
So, what is a Panel HDR?
Well, I'll give you one of my best examples.
I'm actually gonna give you all these raw files,
so you can play around with them.
This is the McWay Falls in Big Sur, California,
one of the nicest lagoon sort of beach.
It's a place you can't really go down to,
you can only shoot it from high up,
and I came there with an amazing sunset.
So I took a series of, that's a normal shot,
an underexposed shot, and an overexposed shot.
But I felt I wanted to get more,
so I went a little higher up, that's the normal exposure,
that's the underexposure, and that's the overexposure.
See how crazy that sunset was, I was so lucky.
Then I moved to the right, that's the normal exposure,
that is the underexposure, and that's the overexposure.
Now, check this out.
I'm gonna select all of that, right click,
Photo Merge, and here's a new option, HDR Panorama.
Yes, HDR Panorama.
So, not only, it's gonna create an HDR for every photo,
but it's also gonna make into Panorama.
Now, the HDR in Lightroom is a very natural HDR.
All it does is really give you the details
of the highlights and shadows you're missing.
As any panorama, you have different option,
which is, basically, what they call projections.
It's different way to, basically, put together
your panorama, so I always look for spherical.
The problem with spherical and cylindrical,
you see how the horizon is completely curved?
That's not good.
Because that's really hard to correct
and it really is destroyed,
but if you fix perspective, now the horizon's straight,
something is weird there,
but this part I don't really care about.
In fact, I am just gonna go and click on Merge.
Now, you don't want to do auto-crop,
because then I'm gonna lose a lot of the sky,
and I like some of the sky there.
Auto Settings, you see Auto Settings is gonna do
some color correction for you.
Using all exposure, create stacks, that's kinda cool,
cause that's gonna stack all the photo into one thing.
So, and it says, "Warning!
HDR Brackets merged with Align Image and Deghost Off."
To merge with different settings
merge HDR Bracket individually,
before merging the resulting HDR DNG to a panorama.
What it means is that if you want
to use the option of deghosting,
which is, deghosting is important
when you have a bit of wind and your leaf
is different from like one photo to the other,
like there is movement
and it's gonna make like a ghosting effect.
Now in this case, I don't the issue
because there was no wind at all,
so all three photos the leaf, the trees,
and plants are almost in the exact same position.
So I'm gonna click on Merge,
and it's gonna create a HDR panorama.
But what's crazy about it, is that HDR panorama
is just gonna be like one super raw file.
Okay, and that's always interesting.
So here we are, that's the (mumbles),
it went pretty fast cause it's,
you know, a lot of photos.
And now you're like, "yeah, but how do we do this?"
Well, what I do, because it's a raw file,
before I go to Photoshop and sort of start cropping it,
I mean I can crop it, you know, I can go in there
and then, you know, make sure the horizon's straight.
I can crop this whole part here,
cause I don't really care about that.
What I do care, is a little bit of,
about the, this sky here missing
and I'll show you in Photoshop
how to get that back, maybe just like that.
So, you know, it's still very cropped
but look at this, if I press I on my keyboard,
and I do big prints for galleries,
it's still, you know, 6859 pixels wide.
So it's still a lot of pixel,
enough for gallery to do a very nice print.
And now I'm ready to do my magic because,
the thing is, knowing you're dealing with a 32-bit image,
meaning when you bring it under highlights
you're getting all the highlights back.
When you (mumbles) shadows, you're getting
all the (mumbles) shadow from the overexposed photo,
from the highlights you're getting
from the underexposed photo, I can do my black point,
I can do my white point.
You know, and look how crazy, it was really like that,
it was the whole sky was like pink,
I can adjust the white balance, I think something like this,
and I didn't even touch, it was a very saturated scene.
So we just have to get that,
maybe add a bit of contrast, not too much, okay.
And, when you deal with HDR, sometimes I think
it's a little too much on the highlights
so I'm gonna bring that down,
I want to go for a very natural feeling,
like really the feeling that I had when I was there,
I don't want to, you know, add too much saturation,
like this is gonna be crazy.
I think the whole photo is a little too magenta,
so I'm gonna back down a little bit
and then I want to do something about this sky,
so I'm missing this sky here, I know I am.
So, but I'm first gonna go here,
I'm gonna lower the exposure
cause I really want to put some emphasis on the sky here,
and then, think the photo still lacks of contrast,
I still want a very contrasting photo.
Contrasting photo do really well on the web,
and then, I think, you know,
I'm gonna use a nicer bracket here, for the bottom,
lower the exposure, cause I don't like this whole part here,
I don't really like, okay well that's way too dark,
just make it a little bit darker.
What I do really like, what I want people to look at,
is really the sky here and the lagoon.
So, I'm gonna make a big circle, invert it, feather it,
and wherever I want people to look at
I maybe gonna add a bit of yellow in that part,
in the bit of exposure, just there,
cause I want people to look here,
and then I'm going to make another circle here,
I'm gonna invert it, I'm gonna feather it,
and I want to add, maybe, just a little bit of light
in the lagoon, cause I like that.
Look at this, this is a beach
where there is a waterfall on the beach,
it's great, it's really good.
Okay, and I do like all my retouching ignoring this
cause I want to create this later on in Photoshop.
So we still get a bit of a distortion here on the tree
which is kind of whatever, but, and maybe, you know,
because I used the, I should have gone a little less white
if I didn't want that distortion
but that sunset was so quick that's all I had,
but, honestly, I really like this panorama.
But I think the way I've printed it at the end
was something like this, I did something like this,
I didn't want to be so, cause I didn't like that
the tree was too stretched here.
And I took this a while ago, it's just I love
revisiting my old photos as new technology comes out.
Let's see here.
Let's take care of the sharpening first.
So let's go in there and I'm gonna sharpen this,
usually I have this formula where I go about
90% of sharpening, about 10 of noise reduction,
and about 50 of masking.
Okay, that's a little bit my formula,
gives me a good, sharp photo.
Yes, I love it, and now let's right click,
edit, into Photoshop CC 2019.
Yes, cause now we are in 2019
I've updated all my Lightroom and Photoshop.
Photoshop, I'm gonna drag and drop this here
so I can show the before and after.
And, on this, I'm gonna take the
polygonal lasso tool and just make one click,
two click, three click, four, and just close it.
So now I have a selection
that's little bit bigger than this
and all I have to do is go to Edit,
convert our fill,
and now we have a new option
in (mumbles) our fill, which is really cool,
is part of Photoshop CC 2019, where I can mask out,
like I don't want the tree to come to this place,
I only want the sky.
So if you go here, you see I can mask out
with the minus, by default it's that,
so I'm masking out, and said, don't take into consideration
this part of the photo, so anything which is green
is gonna get taken into consideration
to replace that missing element.
I don't want Photoshop to look at this part of the photo,
I only want Photoshop to look at the sky here.
Okay, and then...
Now this is a cool option, we see here in real time
what's gonna happen and see, it's kind of,
there is like something a little bit weird here,
it doesn't look, like, completely in,
so I can go to Color Adaptation and go very high
and, check this out, if I go very high, look,
the sky is just perfect and then I click Okay.
And this is, and I'll do another video
just on this new option.
So it put it into a new layer, undo,
so that's with a new sky, okay,
and then I'm just gonna, basically, save this
cause all I wanted is Photoshop for that
and it's gonna reimport into Lightroom
with this corrected, we have a little bit of an issue there,
I didn't crop it properly, but that's fine.
So I'm back in Lightroom
and, voila, I'm just gonna crop that
because there was something missing,
and there you have it.
HDR pano using Lightroom
and Photoshop CC 2019 and their new option.
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