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What I like about the HDR photo merge in LR6, if I am maxed out on the highlights slider and still need to reduce the highlights more, if I edit the image in PSE as a tiff (with the LR adjustments included), and bring the image back into LR, my highlights/shadow slider is reset, and I can then finish massaging my highlights and/or shadows if need be.

StudioAbe wrote in post #17712372
Quick explanation of the space here and here

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I have zero experience in the photography shown in this thread but these just don't work for me. Want people in the shots, then stage the whole thing IMHO.

bobbyz wrote in post #17712406
I have zero experience in the photography shown in this thread but these just don't work for me. Want people in the shots, then stage the whole thing IMHO.

1. time constraint
2. money constraint
3. nature of the space - always busy bursar's office for a major educational institution. Having real people in this case gives more organic and integrated impression than to hire models and stand ins and ask them to pretend (end up looking like a bad stock photography sample).


That being said, the photos are composites taken from a several out of the 20+ shots I've taken for each setup - so yes, it is in a way staged.

digirebelva wrote in post #17712392
What I like about the HDR photo merge in LR6, if I am maxed out on the highlights slider and still need to reduce the highlights more, if I edit the image in PSE as a tiff (with the LR adjustments included), and bring the image back into LR, my highlights/shadow slider is reset, and I can then finish massaging my highlights and/or shadows if need be.

Nice trick. I'll remember that.

StudioAbe wrote in post #17712419
1. time constraint
2. money constraint
3. nature of the space - always busy bursar's office for a major educational institution. Having real people in this case gives more organic and integrated impression than to hire models and stand ins and ask them to pretend (end up looking like a bad stock photography sample).

That being said, the photos are composites taken from a several out of the 20+ shots I've taken for each setup - so yes, it is in a way staged.

Like I said I am no expert, I just gave my comments. Every type of photography has #1, and #2 constraints.

I don't mind the people, they show the space in use, and add life to what would otherwise be a very austere environment...modern architects just don't care about the human experience anymore...the problem I have with the people is the motion, its distracting for me.

Found it out by accident when I brought a image into PSE to massage the verticals, and noticed that I then had more leeway with the sliders then before I exported it.

TRhoads wrote in post #17712443
I don't mind the people, they show the space in use, and add life to what would otherwise be a very austere environment...modern architects just don't care about the human experience anymore...the problem I have with the people is the motion, its distracting for me.

Agree. Like the people but not the blur. Flash would be ideal. Even available light / blended image RE photographers need technical command of as many of the aspects of photography as possible.

i_am_hydrogen wrote in post #17712815

Very nice twilight shot. The balance of light between interior and exterior is just right. One quibble though - the verticals are not straight. The main building converges to the bottom of the frame and appears lean forward.

Thanks. I just fixed it and posted the edited shot. Let me know if you're still seeing the lean.

Looks to be the actual design and construction of the building to me.. Verticals seem accurate by my eye if that's the case.

ESMcBlurM3 wrote in post #17712837
Looks to be the actual design and construction of the building to me.. Verticals seem accurate by my eye if that's the case.

Those pesky architects.... Always making it hard to get your verticals right.....

Left side looks pretty straight but the right side has a pronounced lean and the building looks smaller at the base than at the top. It could be built like that but there may also be some very difficult to correct geometry involved.

I believe what you're seeing is the distortion created by shooting exteriors with 17 TS-E. I haven't even looked at the exif and I am 99% certain this was shot with the 17 TS-E. To each their own of course, but this is exactly why I personally shoot interiors only with 17 TSE and use 24 TSE for exteriors (which is the classic FL for exteriors). Very hard to correct this type of distortion in PP (if not impossible).