I’ve been using infuse for years. It’s the best product out there for real estate. No doubt.

What s the point t of an entire tutorial using lightroom infuse if you don’t show what it is how to install and make adjustments before merging hdr

Hi, I have followed your process and found great results. Thank you! I tried creating the action that you have but once saved and I bring in two new images and apply the action it fails. Any tips on that would be greatly appreciated.

hey can you show how you set up your camera on the tripod? those vertical lines are straight af.

another awesome vid! thanks for all the info.. i learned about LR enfuse from you and its a game changer.. Im not familiar with flambient bc it looks complicated .. but if it makes windows pull easier (like in the video).. im interested then. You are like me, i dont like fake looking windows.. yours are just the way a also edit them.

Hi Will, Is there a video with actions and presets available?

Another very useful video. Thank you!

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Sharing your step-by-step process for creating these actions is GOLD! Thank you for taking time to present the details. Now that we have the magic pixie dust to make the edits with ease, please plan an episode where you explain the function of each layer and how to use it. You have touched upon using this layer-stack model in a couple of your past tutorials, but more details would be very helpful. A reminder about your screen resolution. The print is so small it's very difficult to read. Can you please reset the resolution during your recordings so the screen is more readable? Thank you! Watching your channel for new material!

When I enable time remapping the dots don't appear at the beginning or the ending of the clip. I tried to look in a few forums before asking here just asking the community in general. Will if you or anyone knows a quick fix o how to avoid this, please lmk.

Great stuff as always Will. I’d really like to see a breakdown in the difference between the last two editors if you don’t mind. I’ve heard mixed things about fotober, never tried them myself but after seeing your recommendation I’m willing to give them a shot!

I didn't understand when you said "You need it stacked before you use this". Maybe I'll need to check out how to stack

Bro thank you so much! I’ve been trying to learn this for a while, I’m not an expert with AE and premiere looks wonky when you try to do it there. Since it’s Real estate specific even harder to find. Appreciate you!

I've watched almost 20 videos on interior architecture photgraphy and yours are by far the best, straight to the point, I just have a question, why do u prefer LREnfuse over default lightroom hdr blending? is it better? Does it do good job when u have say like 100 stacks

Downloaded and unzipped and it did not create a folder but rather just put the plugin on my desktop. Lightroom refuses to see or recognize it and will not upload it. Any idea what I can do?

I back with a report of my comparisons. I shot a 5-bracket set of four rooms, then ran them through Aurora HDR 2018, Lightroom HDR merge, and LR Enfuse. I also included the single mid-exposure in the comparo LR Enfuse won. I used the same preset on all the pics then adjusted it to get the best version of the photo (it's the one Will shared in a different video and I entered a comment with the slider settings). Aurora introduces excessive barrel distortion - that's why I had switched to Lightroom merge a while back. Aurora also displayed additional shadow and color that caused an unrealistic look compared to the other two. Lightroom Merge does a decent job but Enfuse showed recognizably better detail in the window views and in the colors in pull-down translucent shades. The lighting was not as blown out. Lightroom seemed to render darker shadows and more blown out windows. Enfuse produced a more even dynamic range. The TIFs generated by LR Enfuse from 5 bracket shots (original RAW pics in the 18MB range) in the 162MB range. That is way bigger than the 16MB size of the Lightroom HDR .dng files generated from a merge. I want to do a bit more testing by taking the Enfuse TIF and running it through the Adobe DNG Converter to see if there is a loss of quality. My 16GB RAM Ryzen 7 laptop was choking when applying presets in Lightroom. The screen would go black for a few seconds while the processor was working. (I just tried it and neither the Adobe DNG Converter program nor Lightroom will import and change a non-RAW file to the smaller DNG format. I've got to think more on that one...Maybe try having Enfuse spit out a JPG instead of a TIF and see how editing will work on a JPG file. I know Mike from Inside Real Estate Photography does his editing with JPGs....) Update: I just tried having Enfuse generate a JPG from the 5-shot set. The resulting file size is in the 15MB range, WAY smaller than a TIF! I slapped the same preset on the four test photos and the results are very close. I will see if that reduction in file size improves working performance. That's the plan for now! Interestingly, the single mid-exposure RAW photo from the 5-bracket set produced a pretty decent photo with some editing. Once I focused on seeing what Enfuse could do, I tested blending in the flash shots I had taken in each room with the single photo and the merged brackets. I was surprised that the flash shots didn't really add much to the final photos (using 50/50 Luminosity blending). The benefit of adding flash probably depends a lot on the lighting in the room. One other thing while I am here. Changing the output file type in Photoshop from TIF to PSD seemed to really speed up moving a blended file back into Lightroom from Photoshop. That one tip alone was worth taking the time to watch and take notes! Thank you, Will!

Great tips Will! Do you do all of your own editing or do you sometimes use outside editors?

I just bought it, it is by far the best plugin to give me the most natural blended exposures. still need some tweaks to my taste but definitely save me great chunk of time. It is worth the money.

I just watched again and took notes. Here are the settings for the Enfuse Preset, starts at 1:22 in the video: LR Enfuse Preset: (1:22) Camera Flat Highlights -75 Shadow +60 Whites +32 Blacks -5 Texture +16 Clarity +14 Dehaze +5 Sharpening Amount 68 Radius 1.4 Detail 15 Masking - hold ALT, drag slider around to adjust. Anything that’s white will have sharpening applied, black indicates Sharpening is masked out. COPY/PASTE those settings across all photos in that set, Sync. Add Lens Corrections for your lens Move Exposure to the Middle of the histogram With take a crack at reverse engineering your Photoshop stacking Action next... Thank you! Good stuff. I caught your CTRL-W sequence to close the flattened photo in Photoshop. I didn't know that move. Maybe that will keep Photoshop's memory use to a minimum...

Awesome tutorial. Thank you for your work.

Sometimes I run into an error with enfuse saying: "No Stacks containing selected photos were found. Note that the stacks must be in folders; stacks in collections are not supported at this time since plugins can't currently access this information. If you are trying to blend the selected images then please turn off the batch mode option." This happens when I stack the photos that I took on timing and then try to batch enfuse them. Anyone knows the answer to this? Thanks! Greatly appreciated.

who understand that?

Time: 14:30 It does not reimports it for me, just dissapears. Please help

I worked for a real estate photography company and recently started working as a freelance real estate photographer. So, I was studying HDR photo editing more and found your video. Thank you for your videos as they have helped me so much.

Hi Will. Thanks for your videos. It made me revisit Enfuse that I had not used for ... yearsss (I even found back the license I bought back then). Doing more HDR blending these days (for real estate) and was using lightroom HDR. Comparing side by side Enfuse seems to do a better job when there is bright windows but for some pictures, lightroom gives me a better result. So I'm doing both : once the photos are stacked, I run enfuse like you do, reimporting the result beside the stack, and then, (as my photos are still stacked), I run lightroom hdr in batch (which put the result on top of the stacks). As a result I then have both versions side by side and can quickly go over them and decide which one looks better to me. A quick trick in photoshop that will help you speed up your workflow a bit : when making your window selections with the pen tool, you can go over all your paths before transforming them to selection in once. As long as you close your path, you can start a new one without loosing the first one.

Will Lightroom Classic does have a batch procedure for created merged HDR images. Use the auto stack function to create the stacks. Since I shoot everything 5 auto bracket frames I have it default to auto stack by capture time. Also, when clicking on the merge HDR option one of the check boxes is for auto align which can be turned off. Finally, the resulting file is a DNG file so it has the same editing options Lightroom offers for DNG files including import into Photoshop as a smart object.

@WillGayPhoto have you had any problems with Enfuse plugin to reimport photos to LR again after the process has finished? Occasionally it works :) But mostly getting these reimport errors while using Win10 with the last version of the LR

That was a nice one! Thank you for sharing your technique.

Will, you "brought the goods" in this video! The steps you took are understandable. I especially was intrigued with the way you used the two masked layers at the top of the stack in Photoshop to make edits. You used Smart Objects - is that so you could pull up Camera Raw and change that top layer to use for the windows? I haven't seen Smart Object layers used before in real estate tutorials. That looks like a nice trick to use to adjust for the windows within Photoshop! You mentioned touching up the color casting - that is an area that would be helpful to see your steps on because there are different ways of accomplishing that. I'll need to try adding that second ambient layer at 50% Normal mode on top of the 50/50 luminosity layers to see if that helps with brushing out the orange cast that shows up from using a Luminosity blend. Thank you also for identifying the slider settings for your pre-HDR blend brackets. That makes it easy to grab those settings and create a Lightroom preset to try out. I already have a couple Photoshop Actions for the 50/50 blend and auto-align. I'll watch for your video walking through the steps to create that 5-layer stack from the flash and ambient layers. And at some point a tutorial on using RayaPro or Lumenzia, etc. to address the windows, please??? Thank you so much for your time and effort to share with the community!!!

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Curious…I, too, shoot with my AD200 attached to my cage, but lifted up via a very small monopod…but do you fire your flash on the 0 exposure, or slower shutter speed…I’ve been dropping my speed down 2 stops, but am not satisfied with the result…generally @500 ISO & 1/4 power on the AD200 for most average rooms…thanks

I would like to know more about how you go about setting up your drive to a network to access from anywhere.

So is this an HDR merge using enfuse and then a flambient blend or are you using the flash and ambient in the enfuse module?

Impressive. I need to go back and see how you create your images

Hii sir give me this wrk AM already 2 years experince this wrk... Pls give me this Oppturity..

For RE photographers I think the new law opens new opportunities. In the past our client was the listing agent. Now we also have the Buyers agent as a potential client as they will need to be marketing their services to build brand awareness so that potential buyers seek them out and sign agent representation contracts with them.

Have you used PhotoMatix recently? I’ve switched from Enfuse to it a while ago…

I came across your channel a few days ago and was interested in your workflow. You are one of the few real estate photographers using luminosity masks. I watched your video a couple times and you were moving too fast to track and with too little narration of your steps. Would you please consider doing a "luminosity mask" tutorial and taking it step by step, explaining what you are doing, how you are moving the layers around in Photoshop and what modes you are using (Darken, Lighten, Luminosity, Color, etc.). At this point, it appears you are doing some effective editing, but there are not enough details to replicate your workflow. I feel like a dog watching someone play chess... The real challenge I have been chasing is to get good window pulls. Was shooting HDR using the Lightroom Merge function (will look into LR Enfuse at your suggestion). Been using a flash in the past couple months to produce a Luminosity 50/50 blend (ala Nathan Cool). But I have seen Raya Pro and Lumenzia and a couple other tools like that but almost all the online tutorials for those products are for landscape photography. Maybe you could compare doing a Darken Mode window pull with a flash (ala Rich Baum) to the same photo using Raya Pro and compare the workflow steps? I subscribed and will be watching for your upcoming tutorials. Thank you for taking time to share your expertise with the real estate photographer community on KZbin!

Hi Will. You mentioned that LR doesn’t do the geometry as well as ACR/PS? Are they not both using the same engine (ACR)? Thanks!

Great video and information. I just bought mine and paid 3.5 pounds or euros, but I believe it is well worth more. Maybe I can donate once I make my business profitable :)

Great video! Helped a ton. I was using a vietnamese company for photo editing before but I didn't like how clinicly they edited the photos. Mostly it looked very fake and unnatural... Hence why I'm leaning more towards editing them myself. Now that I discovered Enfuse it'll be much better in terms of quality/feel. But yea I probably lose 30 minutes extra per house edit. I think it's worth it. :) Where could I find good editors you reckon (not fiverr)? Maybe upwork? Thanks!

I get crazy sun flaring when I have on my UV filters. The image quality always looks better without. 🤷‍♂️

@WillGayPhoto what do think about the Photoshop HDR Pro 32bit? Compared with LR enfuse

In the future I will wait for 4K processing to be done before I go live with these. You should be able to auto translate to whatever language you prefer.

Hola Will, me interesan tus vídeos, podrías poner los subtítulos en español? Gracias de antemano 🙏 KZbin no me deja la opción de cambiarlo y esta desactivada.

hey Will, another cracking video. I'm curious - If I understand correctly you fire the flash forwards (with its diffuser) rather than backwards and bouncing of rear wall / ceiling. I get the advantage regarding avoiding color cast but doesn't this approach give you lots of hard shadows to deal with? (My own technique is to bounce backward into a large round circular white reflector when walls are coloured - but i confess it is a bit of a p.i.t.a!

Great video, very informative. Thank you!

Smallrig does have a cage for the Nikon Z8 with an Arca mount on the side for vertical shooting. However, it's only available for the Z8 when paired up with the MB-N12 battery grip. The Smallrig part number is 3982.