How to time blend your landscape photos - The secret of Time Blending

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In this video I will talk about time blending, which is a very useful technique for landscape and many other types of photography. I will explain the difference between Time Blending and Composite, and use a time blended image as an example to show you the whole process from shooting till editing.
Timecodes
00:00 - Intro
00:47 - What is Time Blending? And What is the difference between Time Blending and Composite
02:16 - What Time Blending can do for you?
06:51 - How to shoot a series of photos for time blending?
09:12 - How to use Time Blending in Photoshop?

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@RichardTang 10 ай бұрын

Neat trick, thanks Kurt!

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for stopping by, Richard!

@Patmac3314 10 ай бұрын

Great tutorial. Thanks for doing this .

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

No problem! Thanks for stopping by!

@adude394 10 ай бұрын

Very interesting and helpful stuff!

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

So glad you like it! Thanks for watching!

@taku_kumabe 10 ай бұрын

nice thorough explanation of this time blending concept and editing Kurt! well done!

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your very kind words, Taku! Means a lot 🙏🙏

@bernym4047 10 ай бұрын

Interesting technique. Thanks for sharing.

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

No problem! Thanks for stopping by! 🙏

@NildoScoop 10 ай бұрын

Some amazing photographes.

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!!

@Kae6502 10 ай бұрын

WOW! Thank you! I Love this! I just subscibed based on this One video alone. I hope to learn more. Thank you! 😊

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

So glad you like it! Thanks so much for stopping by, and Thanks for your subscription! More videos are coming. 🙌

@GeorgeDekker 10 ай бұрын

I feel inspired to try it out.

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

So glad to hear that! Thanks for stopping by

@simoncullinan5369 10 ай бұрын

Looking forward to exploring this kind of photography. Very inspirational and rewarding. Thank you Kurt!

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

No problem, so glad you like it! Thanks for stopping by!!

@kevinharding9361 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Kurt - another tool to add to the kit bag !

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for stopping by, Kevin!

@jessicawong2895 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Kurt! I really appreciate this video and your explanation from start to finish. I'm feeling inspired for a future moon photo 🙏🙏 you made the video easy to follow along too.

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

I'm so glad that my video can be inspiring, that's why I'm doing this in the channel. Thanks a lot for the support, Jessica 🙌🙌

@GeorgeDekker 10 ай бұрын

Cool video thanks!

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! Thanks

@robinc-k7162 10 ай бұрын

Kurt, this is a fantastic tutorial!! Easy to follow and so helpful! I feel like this will help me in a few different ways when using Photoshop. Cheers!

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

Really glad to hear that! I hope you can add the time blending techniques to your post processing. Thanks for stopping by 🙏🙌

@JoshxIZ 10 ай бұрын

Thank you ! The photoshop explanation was good 😊

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

So glad you like it! Thanks for the support! 🙏

@MikeSimpson1 10 ай бұрын

Your images are very beautiful Kurt. I'm such a fan. I like the concept of the time blend. But strictly speaking this is also compositing since it's not done in camera but in software. According to Oxford the meaning of the verb composite is to "combine (two or more images) to make a single picture." Whatever we call it we can agree the result is breathtaking. 👍💯

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for stopping by and having the discussion. As long as you edit digital photos, that's a kind of level of composite, these days who doesn't edit their digital photos? Here I'm talking about my understanding of time blending, it's not necessary to be the same as your understanding. As I explained in the video, I have a boundary, it has to be my own photos taken during the same time period. Composite can be a much wider concept, I can use your photos in my images, that's not my understanding of time blending. Again, good to hear different options here, that's what we need in this channel. Thanks again 🙏

@norbertalexy8803 10 ай бұрын

Hello Kurt, I just watched your timeblending video and I am impressed by the idea and by your very clear and understandable explanation. I feel motivated to try myself and enhance my own photography experience with this new element. Unlike Artificial Intelligence, this is real creativity and editing skills by the photographer. Thank you very much. Norbert (from Germany)

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

Hi, my friend, thanks so much for watching my video and so glad it can bring you a bit of inspiration, that's why I made this video. Hope you will try it and get some beautiful photos 🙏🙏

@KaosK9 7 ай бұрын

Nicely done. Love the subject. Any reason why you opted not to use layer masks to achieve the blend? Is there an advantage to copying to the new layer?

@kurt.wang.photography 7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching my video! Actually layer masks can do the same job too, it really depends on the situations and personal preference. In this case the light conditions didn't change much, and I wanted to have more control of the surroundings of the trains.

@john_norris 10 ай бұрын

Hi Kurt, Thank you very much for such an informative video. May I ask - would you use the same method in PS if you needed to blend different parts of two images to allow for motion blur. For example, a shot of a waterfall - you want the water taken with a long exposure to capture the motion, but you want to freeze the leaves/trees surrounding the waterfall (which are moving due to wind). In that example, would you use the brush tool to blend in the relevant sections of the image into the base photo layer? Many thanks, John

@kurt.wang.photography 10 ай бұрын

Hi, John, Thanks so much for watching my video and reaching out to me! Very good question, actually I often process my waterfall photos by using time blending method too. Basically you need to take 2 photos, first take a fast shutter speed shot to avoid the movement of leaves, then take 2nd shot at a long exposure speed to capture the silky water. Then you can align these 2 photos in Photoshop, use the fast shutter speed shot as the base , and then blend in the silky water from the long exposure shot, in this way you will have a perfect shot for both water and leaves. I do have a plan to make a video about this topic in future so I can show you more details. Again, a very good question!

@john_norris 10 ай бұрын

@@kurt.wang.photography Thanks Kurt, I will certainly keep an eye out for your video. Good tip about using the fast shutter image as the base and then blend in the water to it. 🙏

@robinc-k7162 6 ай бұрын

hi Kurt, once you have finished adding each train to your main image, do you select all the layers and flatten them to create one final image?

@kurt.wang.photography 6 ай бұрын

Hi, Robin, I suggest you multiple selected the base layer as well as the other layers with added and selected trains, then right click, and then select "Merge" layers