dustin_meyer Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 I do interior photography for a virtual tour company, mostly working with real estate jobs, and new homes. I use a Nikon D70 with PS CS and bracket every shot in NEF format. I usually correct for windows to balance out the huge amount of exposure difference with the interior of the rooms. Magnetic Lasso works for cutting windows from proper exposed shots for outside light, and then pasting into shots exposed for the interior. But there's always the issue of making sure the pasted image lines up properly and also looks natural and not "doctored". Does anyone else have experience in this line of digital photography that is willing to lend a few tidbits of wisdom? Any help is appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_grant2 Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 One way could be to take multiple frames and combine them in Photoshop... so one frame would be correctly exposed for the room, another frame would be correctly exposed for the window etc. Then you could layer the two photos over one another, adjust the opacity of the layers and add a layer mask with the Paintbrush tool (to make specific areas of the different layers more or less opaque) to fine tune the overall result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phule Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Are you using a tripod? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant_. Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 bounce flash mixed with ambient... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackflesher Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 What Andrew and Rob said: ie; if you use a tripod and take two frames, one exposed properly for each subject (or alternatively, one frame properly exposed for as many subjects of differing lighting value you have), it is easy to combine them later on separate layers in PS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustin_meyer Posted August 18, 2004 Author Share Posted August 18, 2004 Appreciate the quick answers, guys! Hopefully, the quality of images will improve. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kw_smith Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 The most accurate way is to line up all the exposures in the same image as different layers, then use layer masks to reveal or hide the stuff you want. This way, everything will already be lined up perfectly and you can feather in the other exposures for a more natural look. BTW, cool trick to line up images - shift-drag one image into the main one, which centers it, then Ctrl-I to invert the new layer. Anything that looks embossed is out of alignment, but it's rarely a problem with digital photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelChang Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Adding to the above response, Ken Rockwell's D70 review happens to talk about interior photography:<br><br>http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d70perf.htm#performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.whitemountainphoto.com Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 If you can, try to shoot around dusk, after the sun has gone down. If you time it right, it can give a very nice blue shade of color to the windows, more blanced to the interior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_kanoun Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 You could do it the brute force way - cover the outside of the windows with neutral density gells. Not very digital though I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clauder Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 <p><i>You could do it the brute force way - cover the outside of the windows with neutral density gells. Not very digital though I suppose</i></p> <p>I had to shoot a showroom once, with 10 large (that is 2,50m x 1,50m each) windows, would have been one hell of a workload to cover this with neutral density gells :->></p> <p>I'll second the multiple exposures on a tripod solution, it's an easy thing to do and works like a charm! Praise the digital age for shootings like this! :-)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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