Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looks like a very desirable location. Often it's a lot easier to achieve the interior/exterior "balance" with a simple bounce flash in the room. Expose for the exterior (perhaps a half stop brighter) and adjust the flash to achieve the desired balance. This approach would certainly do away with the odd light on the sill. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Jul 5, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Jeff Moore wrote: > [Well, at least when I first tried to send this, this past Thursday > evening, it happened to be within the "FS Friday" window; but for some > reason it just disappeared into the aether and got lost without a > trace. Trying a resend. But it's really about the pictures, not so > much the small, wanly hopeful commercial message at the end.] > > ---------------------------- > > Kath and I have been working on shining up, and now photographing > some, the house I grew up in -- in the woods in southwest/central New > Jersey. > > The real estate agency's photographers should be sweeping in sometime > to photograph the rooms -- they seem to be better at that than I have > been so far -- but when a day came along with nice even light outside, > I wanted to try to capture what I think is the house's premier > feature: the way it's really designed to be a place nestled in the > woods from which feel you're in the woods as you look out. > > The thing is, it seemed necessary to employ a couple of technical > tricks to give what I feel is actually a truer visual representation > of how the human eye takes these views in. For instance, this is the > view out the front window, from the breakfast nook: > > http://photos.bazbarfoo.com/Scratch/TvHouse/ > 12561680_4fHcC#913318647_U4jff-A-LB > > I asked Kathryn to use her Photoshop mojo to combine a frame where I > had the interior properly exposed and (mostly) correctly color > balanced with a frame which had the exterior properly exposed and > color balanced. Sure, I still have a number of technical niggles > about this (the most obvious being the odd color balance where the > exterior light falls on the window frame), but still -- I think this > composite gives a truer notion of what a person sees standing in that > room than any straight single frame did. > > Then there's the view out the back. This is just a few frames > stitched together as a pano, because I didn't have a single lens wide > enough to do the trick: > > http://photos.bazbarfoo.com/Scratch/TvHouse/ > 12561680_4fHcC#913339148_sWhNM-A-LB > > ...and, yes, for the topic police -- all the source frames are from an > M9 with Leica glass. > > Whaddaya think? > > [This house project is why there's been much less LUG blather from me > for the last few months. Perhaps you're grateful.] > > And, hey, since I think For Sale Friday is in progress by now... > anybody > want a nice house in the woods? Late '50s style, mostly-brick > exterior, > enough land the neighbors aren't sitting in your lap but not that much > lawn to maintain, nice neighbors, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths... New > Jersey near > the Delaware river (but above the flood area), Washington Crossing > kind > of between Lambertville and Yardley, nearish to Princeton. A > commutable > distance north of Philly (if you're commuting-tolerant), neat weekend > relaxation place for NYC folk with more disposable income than I have. > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information