Explore the various shooting and corresponding photo editing styles offered by PhotoUp, including Single Shot, HDR, Flambient, and Manual Blending.
The following four photography styles make up nearly all real estate photography shooting and editing volume in the US market. PhotoUp provides real estate HDR photo editing services along with professional photo editing for single shot exposure, the newly popular flambient style and manual blending.
Style
Exposures Per Frame
Shooting Pros
Shooting Cons
Editing Process
Editing Cost
Moderately fast to shoot
High control over lighting
Final images appear natural
Requires flash equipment
Large spaces can be complex
Hiding flashes can be tricky
Standard adjustments plus color cast correction and occasional removal of flash hot spots and light stands. Images shot in RAW allow for maximum flexibility and control during the editing process and typically produce the sharpest final images plus image management is easier with less files to manage.
1 Credit
(HDR)
Quick to setup & shoot
Good for windows views
Renders consistent output
Requires tripod
Less control over lighting
Final images may look less natural
Images are first processed with HDR blending software with the final blended image processed with standard adjustments. One downside is standard editing adjustments are applied to a JPEG rather than a RAW file, which does slightly reduce the quality and control during the editing phase.
(Flash + Ambient)
Moderately fast to shoot
Good for windows views
Final images appear natural
Requires tripod
Requires some flash equipment
Large spaces may be complex
Effectively a blend between single shot and HDR, the base ambient image is typically edited in RAW format and then exported to Photoshop where the flash layer is blended in with opacity. The flambient style attempts to capture the pros of both single shot and HDR while looking more natural than HDR.
Maximum image control
Common in architectural editorial and luxury photography
Time consuming to shoot
Time consuming to edit
Typically requires lights & tripod
By far the most complex type of editing style and one which requires the photographer to have a specific process already well documented, frames with variable amounts of bracketed images are imported to Photoshop with each bracket being manually brushed over the base frame to create a dynamic, highly stylized image.
Moderately fast to shoot
High control over lighting
Final images appear natural
Requires flash equipment
Large spaces can be complex
Hiding flashes can be tricky
Standard adjustments plus color cast correction and occasional removal of flash hot spots and light stands. Images shot in RAW allow for maximum flexibility and control during the editing process and typically produce the sharpest final images plus image management is easier with less files to manage.
1 Credit
(HDR)
Quick to setup & shoot
Good for windows views
Renders consistent output
Requires tripod
Less control over lighting
Final images may look less natural
Images are first processed with HDR blending software with the final blended image processed with standard adjustments. One downside is standard editing adjustments are applied to a JPEG rather than a RAW file, which does slightly reduce the quality and control during the editing phase.
(Flash + Ambient)
Moderately fast to shoot
Good for windows views
Final images appear natural
Requires tripod
Requires some flash equipment
Large spaces may be complex
Effectively a blend between single shot and HDR, the base ambient image is typically edited in RAW format and then exported to Photoshop where the flash layer is blended in with opacity. The flambient style attempts to capture the pros of both single shot and HDR while looking more natural than HDR.
Maximum image control
Common in architectural editorial and luxury photography
Time consuming to shoot
Time consuming to edit
Typically requires lights & tripod
By far the most complex type of editing style and one which requires the photographer to have a specific process already well documented, frames with variable amounts of bracketed images are imported to Photoshop with each bracket being manually brushed over the base frame to create a dynamic, highly stylized image.
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