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areas show up so red means that it's
clipped in the highlights black means
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that it's clipped in the shadows of what
is clipped mean clipped means that it's
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actually missing from the left of the
rate of this histogram I go down to the
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negative to your gonna see much more
black that's lost it if I go up to the
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plus two you're gonna see a whole sky
covered in Los here so we know from
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experience that we cannot get this value
back from this file but based on my
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experience I also know that I probably
can't get all the details back in the
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sky here and that's because most of it
it's not that it's gone it's just
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there's so much subtlety and this little
strip highlight above the mountain is
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really intense so intense that it really
starts to look good and a negative to
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exposure so not only is it all perfectly
exposed for but see all the little
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details there's always little tones all
these little bits of oranges this is
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really what I want to see in the sky
captured all this detail so now we have
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to put it back together so rather than
adjusting a single raw what we're gonna
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do is combine two draws together to use
a plus one so they can balance the
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foreground here and then I'm going to
use a negative one just for the
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highlights so let's go ahead and get
started in milwaukee through this and
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again
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exposure blending doesn't have to be
complicated in the past years and years
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ago you might be doing this in HDR
software but now these days it's really
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easy to do all the blending manually my
workflow over the last few years has
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been a 100% manual blending workload
remember for this whole series I'm
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teaching guys from day one how I get the
look I get in my imagery and how I get
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the portfolio shots that I do so this is
the basics of how I approach exposure
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blending again we're gonna be doing it
the simplest and most powerful way
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possible it'll be walking guys to the
steps the whole time so let's go ahead
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and go to the +1 exposure the first
thing that i'm gonna do is work to
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balance my shadow so this was not gonna
be too much about this guy we know it's
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already gone and the focus right on the
Sportsground and getting this look
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exactly how I want it from now on you
guys remember that everything is already
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gonna be zeroed out here
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distortions removed chromatic aberration
and also that really pesky sharpening
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that's built into Lightroom so don't
worry about that anymore once you open
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these Lightroom files so first thing I'm
gonna do everything looks exposed
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correctly I'm just gonna pull the
shadows of maybe just a little bit more
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just to get some of that detail back
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really really want the details here
amplify all that in post later I'm able
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to highlights down just a little bit
just to compensate just pull some of
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that Sky back so that I had a better
blending point to work with but really I
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don't want to do too much here to keep
it pretty much true to itself maybe just
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pull the blacks is a member if I hit J
and I start moving the blacks we can
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actually see what's clip so when I make
sure that I'm not putting any of those
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black values just putting it right out
of the reds owner in this case blue soon
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alright so that's going to be the
shadows so what I'm gonna do is go ahead
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and bring this layer into Photoshop San
this a file export with previous now we
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have our base layers before I go any
further what I want to do so we can
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build this up in layers together and
it's something that I like to do just
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keep track of how far to push something
literally set the tone and export it one
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more time
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expert with previous this time I'm gonna
say use unique needs this is gonna be
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repetitive and get this into the other
document by command a for select all
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come and see for copy and then closed
with command W minute pace this ahead
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I'm just gonna shuffle the order these
so that I can have the original raw now
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go ahead and named it too so we can
start saying staying organized original
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call this raw shadows will go back into
Lightroom now that I have my foreground
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taken care of I have basically my layers
here for the balanced highlights in the
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foreground the waterfall valance shadows
I can go and start focusing on the
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highlights
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number 12 really retain this and I want
to keep all this detail that details
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pretty much there now at this point I
could just send us into Photoshop and I