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Subject: [Leica] Photoshopping for Truth? (and a sneaky real estate FS Friday)
From: rsphotoimages at comcast.net (Bob Shaw)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 12:41:32 -0700
References: <20100705191311.GA27848@jbm.org>

For sure go with the PS pano.

It's what they'll see when they stand at the window, right?

Bob



Bob Shaw
rsphotoimages at comcast.net


On Jul 5, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Jeff Moore wrote:

> [Well, at least when I first tried to send this, this past Thursday
> evening, it happened to be within the "FS Friday" window; but for some
> reason it just disappeared into the aether and got lost without a
> trace.  Trying a resend.  But it's really about the pictures, not so
> much the small, wanly hopeful commercial message at the end.]
> 
> ----------------------------
> 
> Kath and I have been working on shining up, and now photographing
> some, the house I grew up in -- in the woods in southwest/central New
> Jersey.
> 
> The real estate agency's photographers should be sweeping in sometime
> to photograph the rooms -- they seem to be better at that than I have
> been so far -- but when a day came along with nice even light outside,
> I wanted to try to capture what I think is the house's premier
> feature: the way it's really designed to be a place nestled in the
> woods from which feel you're in the woods as you look out.
> 
> The thing is, it seemed necessary to employ a couple of technical
> tricks to give what I feel is actually a truer visual representation
> of how the human eye takes these views in.  For instance, this is the
> view out the front window, from the breakfast nook:
> 
> http://photos.bazbarfoo.com/Scratch/TvHouse/12561680_4fHcC#913318647_U4jff-A-LB
> 
> I asked Kathryn to use her Photoshop mojo to combine a frame where I
> had the interior properly exposed and (mostly) correctly color
> balanced with a frame which had the exterior properly exposed and
> color balanced.  Sure, I still have a number of technical niggles
> about this (the most obvious being the odd color balance where the
> exterior light falls on the window frame), but still -- I think this
> composite gives a truer notion of what a person sees standing in that
> room than any straight single frame did.
> 
> Then there's the view out the back.  This is just a few frames
> stitched together as a pano, because I didn't have a single lens wide
> enough to do the trick:
> 
> http://photos.bazbarfoo.com/Scratch/TvHouse/12561680_4fHcC#913339148_sWhNM-A-LB
> 
> ...and, yes, for the topic police -- all the source frames are from an
> M9 with Leica glass.
> 
> Whaddaya think?
> 
> [This house project is why there's been much less LUG blather from me
> for the last few months.  Perhaps you're grateful.]
> 
> And, hey, since I think For Sale Friday is in progress by now... anybody
> want a nice house in the woods?  Late '50s style, mostly-brick exterior,
> enough land the neighbors aren't sitting in your lap but not that much
> lawn to maintain, nice neighbors, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths...  New Jersey near
> the Delaware river (but above the flood area), Washington Crossing kind
> of between Lambertville and Yardley, nearish to Princeton.  A commutable
> distance north of Philly (if you're commuting-tolerant), neat weekend
> relaxation place for NYC folk with more disposable income than I have.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
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