WalterF Offline Upload & Sell: Off
|
RustyBug wrote:
+1 @ two shots.
The interior is the walls / trim being illuminated by interior light (maybe some additional rim lighting from the window) as a reflected subject. The luminance / exposure value, contrast and WB of that light will be that according to the light that is incidently falling onto the walls/ trim.
The stained glass is itself a light source (albeit muticolored). (Granted some of the above ^ light will fall on the glass, but typically it is not a major influence).
As such you will have two very different exposure values. Not unlike an exposure of something in the daylight would receive a Sunny 16 exposure as illuminated by the sun (clear sky) ... BUT, take an exposure of the sun itself directly, and as a light source, it would require a very different exposure to yield anything other than a white overexposure.
Light sources and illuminated subjects have significantly different exposure values ... and imo, HDR isn't the right way to contend with that diff when you have the option to bracket and composite for the two different values. Additionally, while you have two different lighting sources in luminance values ... but they will also differ in contrast and WB. As such, the composting (imo) is vastly preferred to HDR, where you can contend with those variances independently as you dial them in @ S&P to taste.
Watch your neutrals in the two diff components ... not likely that they will have equal WB, nor warrant equal (i.e. global) corrections.
Not the best (banding, artifacts, imperfect masking, etc.), but here's kinda how I see it.
Notice the light falloff / direction of shadows around the trim, etc. You might even consider lighting the walls / trim with your own lighting, rather than relying on the interior lighting inside.
...Show more →
Thank you Kent for the indepth answer, this time we left the interior lights off. Would have helped to have had them on. I don't know about bringing light might be more work than I want.
---------------------------------------------
beavens wrote:
Any thoughts on nixing the walls altogether and focusing more on the awesome glass?
Jeff
Jeff I feel the walls give some sense of framing to the window.
Walt
|