Easily restore beautiful color and detail with exposure blending

High contrast scenes like this slot canyon are brutal on your RAW files. There are clipped shadows and blown highlights. There is just too much dynamic range for a single exposure. Thankfully, there's an easy solution to the problem. Shoot a couple exposures and blend them together using luminosity masks. The RAW files shown in this tutorial are now a part of my Exposure Blending Master Course (https://gregbenzphotography.com/expos..., just look for the "slot canyon" file in section 1.2. In the RAW processing, I mentioned another video on how to use camera calibration, please see:    • How to Extract Insane Color from RAW Files...   (and note that the dropdown for the profile has since been moved to the top of Lightroom right above white balance). I originally posted an edit of this same scene 5 years ago using Lumenzia v1 (!!!). You can see the original here:    • Exposure Blending with Luminosity Masks  -...  . Things have come a long way! Get my free luminosity masking panel and tutorials at: https://gregbenzphotography.com/lumin... For more information on the Lumenzia luminosity masking panel, please visit: http://gregbenzphotography.com/lumenzia/ Connect with me at: ► INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/gregbenzphotography/ ► FACEBOOK:   / gregbenzphotography   ► TWITTER:   / gregbenz