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Guys-
Thanks to all of you. I'll do a little more work on it. A tiny bit of backstory before I respond individually:
I shot this for the architectural steel contractor, so the emphasis is on his work. I shot the interior of the house in a way that even more strongly emphasized his work. The interior photos don't entirely excite me, but I have to keep reminding myself that I didn't have total free reign like I have had on other projects.
I guess a question to all of you is whether the knowledge that it's for the steel guy changes your opinions with regard to WB, sky, cropping, contrast, etc.
Peter Figen wrote:
I agree with Eskimo here. It is cropped pretty tight, and not just on the sides, but the bottom too. And it's still off just a tiny bit in terms of being straight - the left side, although there's a part of the railing on the right edge that makes it look out as well. I would straighten that separately.
The biggest problem for me is that it's too contrasty and severely unsaturated to have any mood, and I'm assuming mood is that you're going after. I did a quick laptop version that opens up the shadows somewhat and adds a ton of saturation along with darkening the sky. Of course this would be better on the original raw files, but the idea carries I think.
Remember with that lens - the 24mm TS-E II, you can shift it up and down, left and right to add to your frame, effectively making it a much wider lens, once you stitch it all to together....Show more →
Peter, thank you. I didn't really do anything to the sky and will play around with the adjustments you suggested/did.
I've done some bracketed and lit composites before, but I'm just so sensitive to touching the camera after it's locked down for fear of poorly registered images, especially when I'm shooting wide. You're absolutely right that I could have done some extra shifting. Unfortunately, as I mentioned above, I lost some of my extra room due to the corrections I had to make.
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eskimochaos wrote:
On second look, the pillar and stairwell are a little hot. I'd warm the white balance and tone down the highlights.
Fortunately, I've got layer-level control over every piece of light. Will play with those areas; thanks.
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Peter Figen wrote:
And I would probably nix the clarity control as it's giving you huge soft halos into the sky that are really apparent once you darken the sky. You can add clarity more effectively and selectively later in Ps if it's needed.
This puzzles me. I'll double-check (and cross my fingers...) but I think these were SOOC RAW exports to 16-bit TIFF with no clarity adjustments. The only sharpening in the PS file is high-pass, but I did that globally, so perhaps that did not-so-nice things to the sky and I should apply that more locally.
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Danpbphoto wrote:
"Fast6", I agree with the above. Your redo of the building is vg except the sky.
I believe,there is a way to widen the image and add some width to the crop using existing image. But that is your choice and I am not 100% sure there is enough to work with.
Modest I wish for me!!
Nice subject though.
Dan
Thanks for your thoughts. That's a level of surgery I'm a bit uncouth to do with an image like this Have you ever done transformations like that on an architectural photo? I don't mean that in an argumentative way...just curious.
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