I’ve just finished processing the shots I did last Thursday night for architect Justin Moore.
Although it’s usually preferable to get things as close as possible ‘in-camera’ to how you want them to look (because it’s invaribaly quicker and therefore also cheaper than doing it in Photoshop), sometimes there’s still a lot of work to be done after pressing the button.
And architectural photography is a perfect example of the kind of work for which I usually spend a lot longer in post-production than I do on the shoot itself.
This is because of the mixed lighting and large contrast range which are often present.
For this shot I blended different exposures (and different ‘processings’ of each exposure) for the main scene, the sky, the door in the foreground, and the lit area of the deck. This lets me adjust the colour temperature and brightness of each area so that it matches as closely as possible how the scene looks to the naked eye. It makes you realise just how much ‘processing’ your brain does when you look at a scene like this!
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