Comments on: Lighting, Shooting, And Retouching Architectural Interiors

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:42:00 +0000

you can tell how much he loves his job in his voice!

By: John MacLean Photography

John MacLean Photography — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 01:42:00 +0000

Thanks Bryan, Well that’s the tidbit that I don’t reveal! I have to keep some alchemy to myself! ;) But here it is with a some more refinements in LR4, like Lens Correction.

By: Elliott.G.Montello

Elliott.G.Montello — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:54:00 +0000

nice video, but was it just me or was the last step really unnecessary? I mean I know everyone has their own way to do things in photoshop but why didn’t he just leave it white and paint black down the middle to merge the images seamlessly?

By: sʇɹǝqoɹ ɟɟǝɾ

sʇɹǝqoɹ ɟɟǝɾ — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:24:00 +0000

I believe he did that to deal with mixed lighting issues. If you look when he first merges the two haves, the purple pillow in the foreground has two different lighting sources on it (depending on which side of the stitch). The overlap between the two sides allows him to pick which side he prefers, and to feather the transition by using a lower opacity brush…thus avoiding any harsh transitions in the stitch.

By: John MacLean Photography

John MacLean Photography — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:16:00 +0000

something fishy is going on and it won’t allow my posts with links here?

By: John MacLean Photography

John MacLean Photography — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:51:00 +0000

Bryan, I tried to reply to this several times yesterday, and it wouldn’t post. So, I’m using this as a test reply.

By: nathan

nathan — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:40:00 +0000

i agree, TOTALLY un-necessary…not exactly how i’d have done it…

By: Bryan Leighty

Bryan Leighty — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:34:00 +0000

excellent final image! What was/is your color matching method?

By: John MacLean Photography

John MacLean Photography — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:56:00 +0000

Here’s a technique I did 5 years ago to deal with five different color light sources. There’s no supplemental lighting used, just the house lights. It involves layer masks and something else I discovered to make the color matching much easier, although choosing exposure frames and painting the masks was a royal P.I.T.A.

http://www.johnmaclean.com/leanarch_anatomy/index.htm

By: John MacLean Photography

John MacLean Photography — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:42:00 +0000

This is some wonky shit!

I get the strobe exposures bit, although I don’t always like his effect. His PS methods are time consuming and he needs to learn some basic keyboard shortcuts!

His repeating the select mask > Edit menu > Fill routine for every layer is redundant. Just hold down your Option key when you click a New Mask from the Layer Palette and it starts as Black instead of White.

As others here said, why the masking of the final left and right sides? And the hand painting of its mask seems ridiculous. So does pulling back the opacity to line it up. Just change the top layer Blending Mode to Difference and bingo you see what’s out of alignment.

And IMHO, the final image was dull and anti-climactic! I would have shot this at some better time, like dusk for more drama!

John
http://www.johnmaclean.com