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Professional Photographer Gary S. Silverstein (located in Southern California) kindly submitted the following tip for our growing collection. You can view some of his work at We Shoot and Billbord.
One of the age-old problems of shooting interiors is that the outside (through the windows and doors) is usually brighter than the interior on a sunny day, and it overexposes the light coming in to the point of a blown-out outside image. The problem is the same with film or digital. Digital allows an easier and better fix, however. We ran into this while shooting the interior of a Japanese-style spa room at a luxury hotel. The client liked the image of the room shooting from the back of the room toward the outside patio, and they wanted to be able to see the colors and shapes on the patio in the image....
One of the ways to fix this is to light the interior to the same value as the light outside. For this shoot, however, the mood in the room would have been destroyed due to flooding it with light. Another fix that some photographers would have used would be to cover the windows with neutral-density film to even out the light. This was not possible on this shoot, because the door was open to the outside patio, with no glass to put any neutral-density film on. The way I handled it was to shoot two images: one exposure for the inside, allowing the windows to overexpose, and one for the outside, underexposing the room. The trick is to tripod and not move the camera, and use the same aperture for each exposure, varying the time to make the differing exposures. The reason the aperture must be the same for both shots is that the images will enlarge or shrink slightly depending on a wider or narrower aperture, and it will be harder to line up the two images to make one.
I then take and open both images in Photoshop and copy the outside image to the inside image to superimpose the outside image as a layer above the inside image. This may take some work, with selecting the parts you want and clearing, or erasing the parts you don't. To line up the layers, make the outside layer 50% transparent and magnify to 100%. This way, you can line up the frames, door jambs, etc. When you are done, make the outside layer opaque again and flatten the layers. You will have a great room mood pic, and the exterior comes out with shape and color, more like our eyes see it.
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Posted by Darren in our Tips category on May 01, 2004