Estudillo Mansion

This is the Estudillo Mansion located in San Jacinto, Ca. I had a chance to shoot some interiors today. I wanted to keep these natural looking but maybe I'll try some creative stuff by doing dark edits with some light rays next.

I used SNS-HDR for these edits.

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Absolutely STUNNING work! This is PRECISELY the type of result I'm trying to perfect myself....

Very, very nice.

Thx!

Yep, all of them are outstanding. There's nothing I would change in them if they were mine!

Nice work Gene. SNS has done a nice job with these images. I will offer two suggestions:

1) try to preserve a little less highlight detail in the exterior scene (the windows). The lace curtains are really beautiful but I think the images all have a little too much of the exterior behind them, giving the luminous nature of the exterior a little less of an airy feel. The exception is the last image which lets the curtain on the right hand window get nice and luminous and diaphanous.

2) when you shoot with these wide angles, be a little more deliberate in the placement and tilt of the camera and lens relative to the interior. Some of the images have some wide angle distortion in what appears to be an almost symmetric rendering of the room (images 1 and 3) but the lines of the room are slightly off, especially when the are viewed in the context of the image edges. Image 3 also has diverging verticals that are a little distracting.

But I am nitpicking.

The lighting in these scenes is really nice, especially in 1, 2 and 4 where the window portal projects the sunlit pattern onto the floor. If HDR toning had been used these areas could have potentially become over saturated and shifted in color. SNS rendered these nicely.

Kirk

Nice job, Gene. Like Kirt, I was going to comment on bringing the exterior down just a little bit. Also, in the first image, the "clipped" look of the sunny spot on the door bothers me a bit more than anything else. Beautiful interiors, by the way. HNY.

Thanks for the comments everyone. I think SNS-HDR does an outstanding job for exposure merging and tonemapping.

Kirk, I definitely need more practice correcting wide angle lens distortions. One issue I had was since this is a museum, I was restricted to shooting through doorways for the most part.

I think the lace curtains are pretty accurately represented in these photos. It was a bright, sunny day and where the lace is in shadow, they are almost transparent, especially when viewing through them straight on. You can see that wherever the sun hits the curtains though, they become more luminous and thus blocking or restricting more of the outside view.

Gary, on my monitor, I don't see any clipping in the sunny part of the door in the first image. Can you copy the image and circle the area you mean and then attach it here?

Here is a new shot and another showing a different angle on the dining room.

Added: These are all 7 exposure brackets with a 1.3 stop spacing.

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I love these shots. I agree with what's been said about detail outside the windows, but I also have to agree that it's a bit of a nit.

I seriously like the first one just above this in the 2nd post. The lace curtains really work for me with that shadow (from a porch roof?) running across them. Simply beautiful.

I think the red channel is clipped some. At least it looks that way on my monitor, and PS shows a 255 value on it.

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Thanks for pointing that out to me Gary. I never really thought much about clipping in individual color channels, just if they were all 255 or 0.

Man, you NAILED those exterior window exposures!

Here is a nice video tutorial explanation of individual color channel clipping and the effects it has on color:

http://vimeo.com/32901​334

kirk

great shots. I confirms my experience I have with SNS HDR, it's really great. can you let me know which cam and lens you have used?

Gary McDuffie wrote in post #13671573
I think the red channel is clipped some. At least it looks that way on my monitor, and PS shows a 255 value on it.

Channels clipping allows to increase the dynamic range.

Beautiful Gene. I saw the one shot in the 1DsII thread, but missed these here....until now. Great job processing and there is no need to rehash what's already been mentioned. Well done.

Outstanding, Gene. When someone asks what HDR is these should be the example.