Editing Interior Architecture with Lightroom Classic - Professional Process Explained

Lightroom tutorial demonstrating how I use Lightroom's merge to HDR feature and then process the photo to bring out the best in this architectural interior. This technique can be applied to real estate and architectural photography and is a great way to seemlessly combine exposures for the interior and exterior.
There are many ways to bring back the over exposed exterior to a property. This is known as a window pull and this is one of my favourite ways to achieve that result.
Along with exposure blending we'll be using the local mask feature in Lightroom Classic to bring back, accentuate and control different areas of our photo.
In the follow-up video I'll show my finishing techniques and cover the popular question, how do I fix distortion in light shades. Hit the bell icon when you subscribe so you're notified when I release that video.
👌 I use Luminar AI (discount code ATSKY10): bit.ly/Lum-AI to finish my edits. When this is done as a bulk / batch edit at the end this is a real time saver and elevates the quality of your imagery. Let me know in the comments if you'd like me to show how to recreate my architecture editing preset.
Previously I've covered the organizing of photos after the shoot here: • Architectural Photogra...
And also the steps necessary to get your proof photos to a state we can send back to our client: • Fast Editing For Archi...
Merge to HDR in Lightroom is a great feature for exposure blending. But my preferred method is with Aurora HDR: bit.ly/2TfoisF_HDR as the hard work of bringing back the shadow and highlight detail is handled automatically and therefore a big time saver.
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[@archiphoto]

The next video showing the adjustments for correcting the lights and finishing the shot is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJy3mZiweb9opac Thanks for watching!

[@triplewinlin5576]

I enjoy watching a master at work - well done!

[@antonwilk1515]

Great videos Anthony. Straight to the point and informative. Looking forward to more.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Good to hear! 😀 Have a delve into the channel as I've posted quite a few more since this one. Enjoy!

[@panomaxstudio8454]

Great Video again. THANKS ANTHONY 👌👑

[@matteotorre2023]

Thank you! A very helpful guide for my work!

[@archiphoto]

Glad it was helpful!

[@asbjrnvistisen9218]

Super helpful tutorial! great for real estate

[@Celestialrob]

Outstanding tutorial, thank you.

[@archiphoto]

You're welcome!

[@dagobertorocha3747]

Ótimo! Obrigado!

[@ArminHirmer]

thank you :)

[@kaell822]

Thanks

[@dhritimanbatchu]

Excellent explanation and final image, too. As a beginner, this type of detailed breakdown is priceless. I've shot a few regional projects which were received well but I can tell for myself that there's something short of the classy images I see from high-end professionals (of course, I'm not a high-end professional but that's the objective). Not sure if you take requests, but it'd be fantastic to get some insight into your compositional choices. Glad to have subbed (found excellent info on your main channel as well) and looking forward to more. Cheers!

[@archiphoto]

Thanks Dhritiman. Welcome to the channel. Yes, you can always send video suggestions my way! I'll see if I can cover composition in a future video. Best regards, Anthony.

[@guillaumecouet1294]

Great job. Very professional. Would a short video tutorial on shooting and real-time settings on the camera be provided? :) metering mode, where to focus at f/11, +1 stop or 0 stop... things like that :) that would be great !! Best wishes.

[@tomhauer5876]

Great video as usual. Your windows using HDR come out so much better than mine. My windows come out much lighter. I am using a bracket of three photos, 2 stops plus and minus the correct exposure as in histogram slightly left of center. How do I get the windows, after merging, closer to a better exposure like you get?

[@archiphoto]

Hi Tom. Did you watch this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6DFi5-ch6l3o5I It goes into a bit more detail on my HDR approach.

[@HoustonBrownPhotography]

So are you saying that since you merged these together with HDR the finished product has all the information in it so that when you brighten a dark area you will not get the noise that you would if you had tried the same technique on one of the bracketed images?

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Correct. The merged 32bit hdr file holds all of the info from the bracketed set in one file.

[@raymondandres]

@@AnthonyTurnhamWould you recommend using this method or the photoshop method with luminance? Thanks in advance :)

[@mikepenney5726]

which video reveals your method of correcting the shape of the light globes?

[@archiphoto]

It's here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJy3mZiweb9opac