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Feb 5, 2018 19:47:05   #
PhotoKurtz Loc: Carterville, IL
 
Ugh... long day for one finished pic... Training to do interior photos for RE Brokers... This is my galley kitchen/dining room.

For some reason everything seems to have a haze over it... could be my burned-out eye-balls...

Canon 5D mIV, f19, 400 ISO. 16-35 2.8 Canon lens. Hdr with curtains brought in from a separate window exposure frame.

What do you think? options? Skip the wide angle and just go for the galley area?

Thanks.


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Feb 5, 2018 20:07:41   #
rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA
 
For Real Estate photography, you need to make the rooms look as big and as bright as possible. Your angle makes the kitchen look long and narrow which would be a negative selling point. THe HDR effects are leaving some areas darker, like on the right. You want to make the rooms look big, so shoot from a lower angle as wide as you can.

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Feb 5, 2018 20:13:56   #
Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI
 
Wide angle seems to be the important thing to use here, so that you can show the space to be as spacious as possible.
I see a strongly contrasting scene with dark furniture and blown out white with specular highlights coming especially from the window on the right. To me, not so much a general haze, but an overly bright area coming from that right window. My first thought with this challenging scene would be to let this picture be a test. Then realizing this it the situation the next step is to move to cut down on the light from the right window. Maybe draw a shade, or even seek to come back at a different time when the light is not coming in so strongly from that direction.

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Feb 5, 2018 20:23:15   #
PhotoKurtz Loc: Carterville, IL
 
Both good suggestions. That room IS long and narrow... no hiding that. Yes... This is definitely a test. It's my own house. Lots of time to work on this til I figure it out. No shade on that window, but maybe I can snap something at 7 AM before direct sunlight. That doesn't become an option when on a normal shoot... gotta work with what's there. and no shade is on that window. maybe move to the right to loose it. Will keep you posted.

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Feb 5, 2018 20:23:55   #
PhotoKurtz Loc: Carterville, IL
 
While I'm at it... where did Camera Raw or PS hide the de-haze slider? I've seen it recently but don't remember where.

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Feb 5, 2018 20:27:02   #
rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona
 
It looks to me that the haze you're noticing is from the lens flare due to the light coming through the window visible through the right doorway. It's definitely more prevalent on that side of the image.
--Bob

PhotoKurtz wrote:
Ugh... long day for one finished pic... Training to do interior photos for RE Brokers... This is my galley kitchen/dining room.

For some reason everything seems to have a haze over it... could be my burned-out eye-balls...

Canon 5D mIV, f19, 400 ISO. 16-35 2.8 Canon lens. Hdr with curtains brought in from a separate window exposure frame.

What do you think? options? Skip the wide angle and just go for the galley area?

Thanks.

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Feb 5, 2018 20:32:52   #
PhotoKurtz Loc: Carterville, IL
 
Thanks RM. That will be tomorrow challenge. Loose that window.

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Feb 5, 2018 20:42:42   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Your realtor is also going to tell you to downsize the image before they can use on a website. Here at UHH, you don't need to post anything longer than 2048-pixels on the long side of the image. Your realtor may tell you to make it even smaller as the images don't need to fill a wide screen display. The haze is the glare from the light through the windows as noted by rmalarz. You might try making a negative adjustment to the highlights to see if this improves things.

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Feb 5, 2018 20:43:09   #
Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI
 
Lens flare. Good point.
What about using a polarizing filter? That would help the glare, and you can rotate it to change how much it cuts down on that. But would it create a new problem with the darker areas?

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Feb 5, 2018 20:47:48   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Lens flare. Good point.
What about using a polarizing filter? That would help the glare, and you can rotate it to change how much it cuts down on that. But would it create a new problem with the darker areas?

At 18mm where this image was shot, the CPL might make matters worse for an unexpected band of shadow for any positive improvement in the window glare. Experiments will confirm.

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Feb 5, 2018 21:12:04   #
Joe Blow
 
To add, there is a fair bit of chromatic aberration around the edges. Just my opinion, but that could be what you're referring to for the haze.

I never realized the RE trick of making rooms look big was a thing. Gee, the things you can learn from an Ugly Hedge Hog. Not to suggest anyone here is ugly, but, ...

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Feb 5, 2018 21:35:38   #
PhotoKurtz Loc: Carterville, IL
 
It's a resource, Joe. Stay tuned. Been studying RE work.

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Feb 6, 2018 08:11:15   #
cdayton
 
My advice is to search out a professional and pay for RE shots. I have sold two houses (main and a rental) in Tucson recently and for the main house tried some pics with my D300 and 10-20 lens but gave up. First, the pro staged the rooms before shooting - huge improvement. Second, she had exactly the right lighting (umbrellas, etc.) for the job and knew how to use it. She even post-processed nice flames in the fireplace and in an outside fire bowl. I didn’t even mind that she used a Canon.

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Feb 6, 2018 09:42:59   #
donrosshill Loc: Delaware & Florida
 
After enlarging the image there are a couple of suggestion I will make.
1: if you look at the right side the glass table top is reflecting directly into your lens. It is creating flare that makes it look Smokey.
2: The overall image is sharp but it looks like you could have used a flash fill in to bring the front part of the image into a dynamic range that should even out the overall image. 3: Shooting in HDR with multiple images will help in compressing the bright window images with the rest of the image.
I hope that this helps.
Don

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Feb 6, 2018 10:12:22   #
rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona
 
Don, like yourself, I looked at the image closely. There's more than enough dynamic range there. I'd post it with the OP's permission. Yes, there is flare, but with some good processing techniques, a lot of detail can be attained, including the apparently blown out window. From its appearance, the OP did use some HDR techniques, which, IMO, should be avoided in RE photography.
--Bob

donrosshill wrote:
After enlarging the image there are a couple of suggestion I will make.
1: if you look at the right side the glass table top is reflecting directly into your lens. It is creating flare that makes it look Smokey.
2: The overall image is sharp but it looks like you could have used a flash fill in to bring the front part of the image into a dynamic range that should even out the overall image. 3: Shooting in HDR with multiple images will help in compressing the bright window images with the rest of the image.
I hope that this helps.
Don
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