![]() ![]() This modernistic, rustic styled log cabin home Marianne Tiegen, evokes a myriad of varying visions. Though the exterior of a log cabin home makes the first impact, it’s the interior that leaves a lasting impression. Or perhaps, you envision a brick chimney with pieces of wood burning ever so brightly. On a smaller room in a log-cabin, this technique can work reasonably well.When you think of a log cabin you probably imagine a diminutive log house with a shaky roof snuggled into an orchard of trees near a lake. This filled the room with enough light to bring out the details. I then held a small circular reflector camera left near the top corner of the room and with my other hand, I bounced a flash off of it into the room. How I shot it was by (as always) getting a bracket of ambient-only shots. There were several different tones of wood, and nothing to bounce light off of. This one was a little bit easier, but still a challenge. I don’t like to use the pen tool to isolate windows and then masking them in, but for this one I had to in places. There was a lot of glare and reflection, and this was probably the most challenging part of the shot. I’ll be honest, the post processing on the windows took a while. Lastly, I took a repair shot (ambient only) exposing only for the windows. I then took a bracket of ambient shots, and attempted a window pull by blasting as much light as I could directly at the windows. This is not ideal, I realize as it can lead to color cast issues. I had some additional flashes on 9′ C-Stands on either side of the camera bouncing as much light off the ceilings as to fill the room. How I shot it was by having a shoot-through umbrella directly to my left to help fill light in to the room. Behind the camera was an open kitchen, so nowhere to bounce light. I had direct sun blasting into the huge windows, and very dark wood. This shot from a cabin early in the summer was incredibly challenging. ![]() Bounced light is softer and much more appealing). In short, you need some seriously powerful lighting and somewhere to bounce it off of (as we all know, or should, direct flash results in.well, flashy looking photos. I don’t use HDR but I know a lot of Real Estate Photographers still do. If you do HDR, the windows are likely to be a disaster since your camera is going to struggle to expose for the dark wood while not blowing out the windows (unless you are compositing and spending a ton of time in post). If you (like me) do Flambient, with a window pull in Darken Mode, it’s hard to get the frame lit up to be able to do this. Often times there is a strong orange or yellow cast. ![]() The wood is challenging to correct for color.This makes it incredibly tough to find anything to bounce lights off of, and the dark wood sucks up strobe or flash light like a sponge. ![]()
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