Learn How to Blend Exposures in Lightroom

Learning how to properly and convincingly blend exposures will enable you to have much more versatility in your process, particularly when you are dealing with scenes with a high amount of dynamic range. This great video will show you how to use Lightroom for exposure blending and how to ensure your edits are smooth and convincing. 

Coming to you from Perea Photography, this helpful video will show you how to blend exposures using Lightroom. Exposure blending is a very useful technique that you will likely need if you shoot things like landscapes or architecture. As impressive as modern camera sensors are, a lot of scenes still have more dynamic range than those sensors can handle, and as such, you will often have to take multiple shots at different exposure levels (bracketing). Thankfully, it is not particularly difficult to combine those exposures into a final shot, and often, you can do it all in Lightroom without even having to dive into Photoshop. It is a good skill to have to ensure you can get the best possible image quality. Check out the video above for the full rundown and try shooting a scene with high dynamic range yourself. 

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Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

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