How To BRACKET For PERFECTLY EXPOSED Landscape Photos
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In this week’s episode, we discuss how to bracket for perfectly exposed landscape photos. Perhaps one of the most difficult aspects of landscape photography is determining how to properly expose your photos when lighting conditions are less than ideal. These difficult lighting conditions are rather common when it comes to landscape and outdoor photography with the most frequent occurrence being a bright sky with a dark foreground. The dynamic range in today's cameras has never been better, but even the best cameras out there still struggle with properly exposing areas of extreme light and extreme dark within a single image, and this is where exposure bracketing helps.
In this video I review what exposure bracketing is, how to use it, why you should use it, and when you should apply this in camera technique to your landscape photos. The process may seem a bit intimidating at first, but once you try it on your own you'll quickly realize just how easy it really is. You're basically just taking a series of photos with different exposure settings applied to each. I usually take three photos when I exposure bracket, one that's underexposed, one that's "properly exposed" and one that's overexposed. Once you have your photo bracket series complete, you blend the images together and watch the magic unfold!
There's multiple different ways to blend the images and in this video I use Lightroom to merge my three bracketed photos together to create one perfectly exposed landscape photo.
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Addendums needed for WHY to bracket with shutter speed instead of aperture or ISO:
- Changing F/stop will vary the depth of field for each image, so you'll have variations between images of areas in or out of focus.
- Changing ISO can change the color balance.
P.S. - set the camera's white balance to a manual function (e.g. daylight, shade, etc.) rather than AWB so the color values remain constant. Varying exposure lengths can also affect the color balance, so the images may not visually match when you blend later.
Of course changing shutter speed and introduce motion blur if there is movement in the picture. eg. windy conditions or moving water.
John Drummond Good explanation on depth of field. I didn’t know iso could affect color so much. I use a nikon d5200👍
@@EC-ol8nz thanks. White balance changes from ISO adjustment might be subtle but noticeable, depending on the sensor, I guess. I don't know from model to model. I just know that changing shutter speed adds the fewest extra variables, unless you have wind and moving foliage.
Iso is gain, not exposure
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Quick tip if you do a lot bracketing, use the Auto-Stack by Capture Time feature ( _select all your bracketed shots >> Photo >> Stacking >> Auto-Stack by Capture Time_ ). Then you can simply select the stack and CTRL+H to HDR it. Great video!
David Adams i assume that’d in Lightroom? Been looking for that feature in Capture One Pro
@@AdamosKyriakou Yeah, should have said, this is a tip for Lightroom.
David Adams Thanks David! Appreciate you watching!
Amazing Tip! I will try this real soon!
Well, I see I'm back, after 3 years, checking out your video again Mark, as I haven't used bracketing for a while, and figure it's time to get back into adding some HDR into my images. Appreciate your help, as I see many of your videos, and find them all so very helpful...thanks again.
Thank you so much for comparing the single shot to the bracketed shot version! That was extremely helpful! Great tutorial, really appreciate you!
Three years later and this video will help me on my first HDR RE project.. thank you!
I have never attempted hdr bracketing of multiple images. After watching your video I’m no longer afraid and intimidated by the process.
I have no doubt your explanations of technique are helping many budding shooters!
Mike Mitchell Much appreciated Mike - I sure hope so!
Mike Mitchell he does a great job explaining!
The best explanation of bracketing I've seen yet. You actually go through all the steps in camera as well as in post instead of rushing through like most guys do. Thanks!
Great to hear the video was helpful Ralph!
I like how your camera exposure, exposure compensation and histogram are reflected in Live View. Your expansion of how to tell when to use bracketing is much harder when Live View doesnt change and the effects are only in Playback.
When using Lightroom HDR, I always check the ‘stack images’ box to clean up my library.
I had never heard of the "one stop rule" before. It certainly makes a lot of sense. Thanks Mark for that very useful tip.
David Aldridge this video is a gem!
David Aldridge Great to hear it was helpful David!
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Perfectly explained! Thanks.
The general advice you give early in the video is fine. It's the kind of tip TH-cam videos usually offer. But when you compared the HDR image with an edited version of the image, you did something remarkable. That step elevated the video from "pretty good" to "great!"
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I wish I had watched this BEFORE I went to the Grand Canyon and Egypt. Merging is much faster in getting closer to a great image than just relying on LR alone.
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Really helpful tutorial, Mark. Nicely explained and I'm looking forward to trying out bracketing. Thanks very much for sharing. You have an engaging style! 😊
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