Thomas Kinkade Photos: I would like to take some photos of a home, outside at night with all of the lights inside turned on, drapes open and hopefully get the Thomas Kinkade look of...

ioptfm Loc: Isle of Palms, SC

I would like to take some photos of a home, outside at night with all of the lights inside turned on, drapes open and hopefully get the Thomas Kinkade look of illumination from the windows. Any suggestions? Those that are not familiar with Kinkades works all of his paintings had the look of illumination coming from the windows

ioptfm Loc: Isle of Palms, SC

Found an example of his work

SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

This site has a brief section in the middle about houses at night:

http://www.all-things-photography.com/exterior-property-photography.html

shutterEye Loc: here & there

ioptfm wrote:

I would like to take some photos of a home, outside at night with all of the lights inside turned on, drapes open and hopefully get the Thomas Kinkade look of illumination from the windows. Any suggestions? Those that are not familiar with Kinkades works all of his paintings had the look of illumination coming from the windows

No idea how, but here's a couple more ..Christmas cards a few years ago..

Thomas Kinkade's Light

Thomas Kinkade

mikeysaling Loc: essex uk

i there - yes i have played with TK look! This one in case the exif goes awol was 1/6th sec f2.8 ISO500 Nikon d7000 . Then 'mucked about' in ACDSee pro5 with solarizing and a bit of a vignette.

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

ioptfm wrote:

I would like to take some photos of a home, outside at night with all of the lights inside turned on, drapes open and hopefully get the Thomas Kinkade look of illumination from the windows. Any suggestions? Those that are not familiar with Kinkades works all of his paintings had the look of illumination coming from the windows

Ioptfm, don't think it would be that hard. They look like all the overdone HDRs that we see today. He was just ahead of his time!!

ioptfm Loc: Isle of Palms, SC

Thanks...was hoping to get major effect from camera settings with only a little PS editing.

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

ioptfm wrote:

Thanks...was hoping to get major effect from camera settings with only a little PS editing.

Then it probably won't be so easy.

mikeysaling Loc: essex uk

The out of cam shot was not a lot different - i'll see if i can find it.

mikeysaling Loc: essex uk

Here you are

JimKing Loc: Salisbury, Maryland USA

I couldn't find the link I wanted, though I believe it was on the Strobist blog site http://strobist.blogspot.com

There was a photographer who put his camera on a tripod and went to each visible room and set up a small speedlight and a radio link. He returned to the camera and shot it, went back and moved the light to the next room and shot it, then puts them together in Photoshop.

Coker Loc: Havana, IL

Pretty EZ to get the look you are looking for. this is a 1 second exposure.

clicktime Loc: Yucca Valley Ca.

ioptfm wrote:

I would like to take some photos of a home, outside at night with all of the lights inside turned on, drapes open and hopefully get the Thomas Kinkade look of illumination from the windows. Any suggestions? Those that are not familiar with Kinkades works all of his paintings had the look of illumination coming from the windows

Here is how I do it. Wait till the last hour of daylight and take bracketed shots of the house with the lights turned on and the yard light if possible. Combine all the shots in HDR editing software. If you study Real Estate photography tecnieques you will find alot of exsamples.

Kenneth Pierce Loc: Campbellsville, Kentucky

Try this: Choose the house to be photographed, With the camera on a tripod, set camera on Multiple Exposure, In the evening hours just before dark, while it is still light enough to photograph the house accurately, take the first photo in low, but normal light. Wait until dark and all the windows are well-lighted, expose for the lights. You may have to play around with the settings and time of day to get the photo you want. You probably could do the same thing with multiple exposures in photoshop using layers and masks.

shutterEye Loc: here & there

ioptfm wrote:

I would like to take some photos of a home, outside at night with all of the lights inside turned on, drapes open and hopefully get the Thomas Kinkade look of illumination from the windows. Any suggestions? Those that are not familiar with Kinkades works all of his paintings had the look of illumination coming from the windows

There, fixed the lighting somewhat...hope this is better?

Thomas Kinkade ~ Lights

Thomas Kinkade ~ night Lights