Makes it easiest to find and know where it exists. I typically save to the same folder as the rest of the images in the current set I’m editing. Output” panel, set where you’d like to file to be saved and other personal settings. Basically, I set 'exposure weight’ all the way up to 1, and both ‘saturation weight’ and ‘contrast weight’ are set up to.
I have played with several settings and the ones in this screenshot seem to work best for me. Using the default settings, the contrast and saturation will not normally work out very well for architecture and real estate photography. Auto-Align” panel, if you used a tripod, be sure to un-check ‘Automatically align images.’ If you weren’t using a tripod, firstly, shame on you! Secondly, go ahead and click the ‘Automatically align images’ option. Configuration" panel the way it is, on the "2. The next step is to highlight those exposures in Lightroom, and then navigate to ‘File' menu, to ‘Plug-In Extras' menu, to ‘Blend exposures using LR/Enfuse’. Often times if you hit the ‘auto’ tone button in Lightroom’s Develop pane, it’ll take care of a lot of this on its own and you could end up with a solid frame to use. Now in the fourth exposure, the one in which you used the flash to expose for the outside scene, i’ll usually pull down the highlights just a bit so I can make out the details very well in the outside scene, and then I’ll open up the shadows about 30-50% to reveal a bit of details especially around the edges of the window frame or door frame. Be conservative with how much you open your shadows based on your camera and sensor.
I’ll then usually pull the highlights down on the overexposed exposure, and sometimes I pull the shadows up in the underexposed frame, but not too much as that can introduce some noise. Use the first three bracketed exposures, and make any adjustments you see fit, starting with white balance, where ‘Auto’ does a great job these days. Now that you have your exposures as described in Part 1, pull them into Adobe Lightroom.
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Here in part 2, we explain how to post-process these exposures. In Part 1, we explained the process of getting the proper exposures on location for architecture and real estate photography.