Photos Shooting with bright backgrounds and only room lights
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Photos Shooting with bright backgrounds and only room lights
When faced with room light and bright outside sunlight I would have needed about 650 watts of light to bring my doll up to a bright enough level so I could use one setting to capture the window imagery and Gabrielle. Instead I used a tripod and took two photos, one to get the best window lighting and one for the lighting I wanted on Gabrielle. Then using Photoshop I laid the bright one over the darker one and removed all but the window image, leaving a very small 2 pixel feather for better blend in. Of course I could have pulled the curtains but thought the outside imagery was more interesting. Edit took about 15 minutes...less time than it would have taken for me to unpack, setup and take down my lighting kit.
The two photos taken (actually I took around six and chose the best two)
This is my final result.... (Click on photo for hi-rez)
Note I also cropped the final photo to remove the plug outlet on the left and the partial bookcase on the right.
Anyone who does not have Photoshop can use GIMP, a Photoshop compatible program that is in free to download. Feel free to contact me if you need assistance on this technique or Photoshop/GIMP.
Happy shooting.
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Gabrielle BT ---- Libby Ruby13 ---- My Teddy Babes --- Bianca from Lars & the RG --- jessica Wicked RD ------ Aredhel PIB ------ Amaya 4woods - Kira Anatomical
Re: Shooting with bright backgrounds and only room lights
If you have the newer versions of Lightroom or Photoshop, Photomatix sells a plugin that does most of the tonal mapping for you. HDR photography prettying much requires the use of a tripod and only works well on stationary subjects. Just the slightest movement between exposures is hard to workaround.
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Re: Shooting with bright backgrounds and only room lights
And here I am stuck with manual laborLongshot wrote:There is a photographic process know as HDR (High Dynamic Range) that uses this principle. With some of the newer DSLR’s this feature is built right into the camera....
Re: Shooting with bright backgrounds and only room lights
I thought all you movie celebs had personal assistants to do the manual stuff.Bianca wrote:And here I am stuck with manual laborLongshot wrote:There is a photographic process know as HDR (High Dynamic Range) that uses this principle. With some of the newer DSLR’s this feature is built right into the camera....
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Midiman is helpless without meLongshot wrote:I thought all you movie celebs had personal assistants to do the manual stuff.
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I wouldnt have thought of doing this.
Worked very well the end result is amazing I wouldnt have
even known that was a alpha layer for the window..
Great work..
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