Sharpeshots
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject: Photoshopping INTERIORS |
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I do a lot of INTERIOR Photography these days and I do all of it without any form of lighting at all.
I shoot entirely in Panoramas and bracket one exposure for the room and a second for the 'lampshades'.
If you don't all the bright light sources turn completely white.
In the past I've always cut the lampshades out of the darker exposures and pasted them into the proper exposure using different selection tools ie Magic Wand etc....
It's extremely tedious, can take forever and in about 1/2 the shots you can tell if you look closely enough.
They just don't look completely realistic.
Follow this link for an example of one that worked.
Incidentally, you also have to cut and paste in the REFLECTIONS of each lamp in the glass:
http://www.sharpeshots.com/index.php?go=viewphoto&gallery=3&id=99
I've tried 'stitching' the darker exposures, putting them underneath as a layer and then both masking or erasing with different opacity brushes but the darker exposures, even tho' the file size is identical will not 'line up' underneath.
I'd imagine there's just not as much pixel detail in it and that accounts for that.
Any ideas or tips you can help me with would be greatly appreciated.
The central issue is the Dynamic Range is just to wide.
I've also tried Photomatix and HDR in PShop but with mixed results.
Cheers,
John Sharpe/Sharpeshots |
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