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The teacher in me comes out once in a while.  I provide commercial architecture photography for a variety of clients including realtors.  Often I am asked how I take interior pictures that look so nice.  I ask the person what they like about the photo, and often they can’t describe why they like the image.  When I ask it is because there are no really dark or really bright areas there eyes get really big and they answer YES!

The advent of HDR software and selective adjustment technology such as Nik Viveza has made the job of balancing light much easier, as long as you are willing to learn and apply the entire process correctly.  These were shot on a tripod, with careful attention to the light and dark areas to estimate the required exposure bracket; in this case it was 0, -1.0, -2.0 to get the light in the hallway and windows to balance.  Shot RAW, and the last fame had a grey card for white balance in Photoshop. 

I load all images into Photoshop RAW converter, recover any blown out pixels and the save as TIF to Photoshop and use the grey card image to set white balance for all images.  I used Photomatrix for this image, but every so often I go back to layers and mask for best results.  I finish up local brightness and contrast with Nik Viveza. 

That’s it!  Take a peek at other interior photos in my Portfolio.