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Thanks a lot for the feedback! There's actually a light pole/flood light right next to the building that came on shortly after this and bathed the front of the building in nasty orange light. I did take some shots, but haven't messed with them yet and not very optimistic they will turn out with the cast, lol.

I took shots from several different angles and you are right about how the building is shaped. The front door in inset quite a bit and hidden by the extension here, but this angle eliminated a lot of distractions that you see from the other side (parking lot lines, fire lane, etc) and I liked how it was balanced with the sky on the right side. I have plenty more angles to use and edit. This was just a sample shot for now for fun. It took about 10-15 mins to edit and about 5-7 mins of cloning.

Thank you for the tips and I will post when I have more. Thanks!!

BallerStatus wrote in post #18153158
Thanks a lot for the feedback! There's actually a light pole/flood light right next to the building that came on shortly after this and bathed the front of the building in nasty orange light. I did take some shots, but haven't messed with them yet and not very optimistic they will turn out with the cast, lol.

I took shots from several different angles and you are right about how the building is shaped. The front door in inset quite a bit and hidden by the extension here, but this angle eliminated a lot of distractions that you see from the other side (parking lot lines, fire lane, etc) and I liked how it was balanced with the sky on the right side. I have plenty more angles to use and edit. This was just a sample shot for now for fun. It took about 10-15 mins to edit and about 5-7 mins of cloning.

Thank you for the tips and I will post when I have more. Thanks!!

Understandable for sure. Like I always say, it's a lot easier to say you would take a shot at a differently from just looking at a photo. But when you have no idea what lies outside of the frame, it's hard to stick with that

BallerStatus wrote in post #18153098
Our vet clinic went thru a massive restoration within the past year and they asked me to photograph the "new" building for an architectural design contest. I rented the 16-35 f4L IS from borrowlenses.com and got to work on this. This is my first of this type of thing, but I really enjoyed it and studied more for this assignment than probably any other I have done. I've read almost every single page of this thread, so I appreciate hearing what you guys had to say and learning. This is three bracketed exposures at 1 stop increments and then combined in LR HDR merge. Some dodging and burning and cloned a few things and that's pretty much it. Sky is original from Friday night. I'm looking forward to getting the rest of these edited.

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Looks great, and what a fantastic sky.

The mulch in the foreground is doing nothing for me, so I would suggest cropping that out and see if you like that better. There's some dead/brown grass in there that wouldn't be too hard to fix up if you were so inclined. The left side of the front of the building could use a little dodging to even it with the rest of the facade.

The only thing that really bothers me here is how bright the shingles on the roof are. This is one of those HDR things that always drove me nuts. The left side isn't too bad, but the right side of the roof is much too bright, and you've got some haloing where the roof meets the sky. Otherwise great work, and this is a gorgeous location.

Thanks for the feedback! I agree about the haloing. I did some local brushes in LR, but it looks like I will do some more exact PS selections instead to help make those edges crisper. Darkening the shingles will also help bring attention back to the front of the building so I will work on that. Thanks for the tips!

BallerStatus wrote in post #18153273
Thanks for the feedback! I agree about the haloing. I did some local brushes in LR, but it looks like I will do some more exact PS selections instead to help make those edges crisper.

How To Remove Chromatic Aberration in Photoshop
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Doing a series of 7 exteriors of homes for a custom home company. After that, they hired me to do one they're finishing which is 8600 sq ft!

Good opportunity to hone in on my twilight skills and refine them.

is the garage on the left a part of the same house?

joooowan wrote in post #18154198
is the garage on the left a part of the same house?

Yes, that's his shop. He actually created the patent for that shop door. They're these crazy powerlift hydraulic doors that open straight out.

seaLere wrote in post #18154155
Doing a series of 7 exteriors of homes for a custom home company. After that, they hired me to do one they're finishing which is 8600 sq ft!

Good opportunity to hone in on my twilight skills and refine them.

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Id bring up the shadows on the grass and clean it up a lot too

kitchen from this morning

seaLere wrote in post #18154155
Doing a series of 7 exteriors of homes for a custom home company. After that, they hired me to do one they're finishing which is 8600 sq ft!

Good opportunity to hone in on my twilight skills and refine them.

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Nice twilight stuff here. These sprawling houses are tough though, as getting all of it in the frame can come at the expense of having to go pretty wide like this. Another tricky thing is that these light painted twilight shots force you to commit to one composition, so not much room for variation.

With those two points in mind, I want to see what's going on more by the main entrance. Due to the wide angle, we're getting a lot of grass and garage, which are both nice, but not exactly the focal point of the exterior. I would not be afraid to cut parts of the house off to better showcase some of the most important parts of the house, if getting the whole thing in is tough. You might need to talk your client into something like that, but I think you could make a more compelling image if you didn't have to get every bit of this sprawling place in one frame.

mltn wrote in post #18154369
Nice twilight stuff here. These sprawling houses are tough though, as getting all of it in the frame can come at the expense of having to go pretty wide like this. Another tricky thing is that these light painted twilight shots force you to commit to one composition, so not much room for variation.

With those two points in mind, I want to see what's going on more by the main entrance. Due to the wide angle, we're getting a lot of grass and garage, which are both nice, but not exactly the focal point of the exterior. I would not be afraid to cut parts of the house off to better showcase some of the most important parts of the house, if getting the whole thing in is tough. You might need to talk your client into something like that, but I think you could make a more compelling image if you didn't have to get every bit of this sprawling place in one frame.

Thanks for the input! I definitely agree with the composition and getting more the entrance. The crap thing about all the houses in that developement (I shot 3 so far), is that they're all on big damn hills! I wanted to go more in front than the side but I would have been down about 7 feet in elevation. I was torn if I wanted to stay on the high ground and get a mediocre composition or shoot uphill a bunch. Maybe I went the wrong way!

seaLere wrote in post #18154377
Thanks for the input! I definitely agree with the composition and getting more the entrance. The crap thing about all the houses in that developement (I shot 3 so far), is that they're all on big damn hills! I wanted to go more in front than the side but I would have been down about 7 feet in elevation. I was torn if I wanted to stay on the high ground and get a mediocre composition or shoot uphill a bunch. Maybe I went the wrong way!

I figured there was something else going on, not an easy situation. Time to call in the cherry picker.

mltn wrote in post #18154416
I figured there was something else going on, not an easy situation. Time to call in the cherry picker.

My dad's company has access to many. If the job ever paid enough for it, I would definitely bring one with lol.

seaLere wrote in post #18154436
My dad's company has access to many. If the job ever paid enough for it, I would definitely bring one with lol.

Oh man, go for it! I hear ya on the budget stuff, but it could also add a killer shot to your portfolio.