Tom Hall
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Location: Santa Rosa, United States
Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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Shooting Interior Pans w/ mix of light (windows) & shadows
Posted: 6 Apr 2008 at 15:12 GMT
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can someone please point me to a good tutorial for how best to shoot an interior with a mix of windowed and non-windowed walls to get the best exposure.
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Doug Aurand
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Location: Albuquerque, NM, United States
Registered: 2 Jan 2008
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Re: Shooting Interior Pans w/ mix of light (windows) & shadows
Posted: 6 Apr 2008 at 17:48 GMT
updated: 6 Apr 2008 at 17:49 GMT
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Tom
Very generally, you set your camera to a mid size aperature, I use f/8 and set the shutter speed to a setting in the middle of the brightest and darkest parts of the room. I just use the metering on my Nikon Coolpix 5400 or Canon XTi.
White Balance is just something you have to learn over time. I've gotten to the point that I set my Coolpix 5400 to Sunlight in all but rooms that are overwhelmingly lit by Incandescent or Fluorescent source.
The other method is to take multiple exposures of each shot and composite them with programs like Photomatix or Adobe Photoshop's High Dynamic Range tool. I think it was added in CS2
Good Luck
Doug Aurand
Albuquerque, NM
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atomicmak
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Location: ahmedabad, India
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Re: Shooting Interior Pans w/ mix of light (windows) & shadows
Posted: 7 Apr 2008 at 4:09 GMT
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i would suggest f11 is good for nikkor 10.5 what i seen in my most pano for depth.
next is whitebalance which you can better do with custom or kelvin with middle range between your window and inside light so that you can manage it later with either PS/Lightroom with window cutout .
stitch and work on either HDR/enfuse (i prefer enfuse gives better range in light and contrast and colours too). now you must have inidvidual spherical of each bracket and get it masked for windows in PS and give theme average tone suites your inside light and it should look gr8.
this is how i do work.
in most cases you dont need to work on cutout with window if you use enfuse and it might not have heavy sunlight coming from windows.
rest keep on practice
regards
mak
www.vox360.in
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