Masters Academy

Combining Light Painted Exposures

In this lesson I show how 60 light painted exposures where adjusted, layered and masked to produce a finalized image. The whole process took just over four hours in real life, but I was able to condense the video into just shy of two hours by fast forwarding at non-critical times. This lesson is full of all sorts of tips relating to working with Layer Masks and dealing with issues in complex light paintings.

Note: The light painted exposures are available in a downloadable .zip file that you’ll need to double-click on before you can use the images in LR/ACR.