After a thorough cleaning, I decided to take a little stab at shooting interior decoration. The photograph is from our bedroom and I used the bedside table lamps to create a warm atmosphere. The ambient interior lighting was combined with the sunny autumn scene outside. I shot two exposures on a tripod, for the interior lighting 0.4 seconds at f/9.0 andr for the outside lighting 1/40 seconds at f/9.0. I didn’t want an artificial HDR look, and didn’t want to stitch the exposures manually in Photoshop either, so I tried (for the first time) the enfuse tool which is part of the PanoTools package.

For a quick test, I have to say, the output is very much to my liking. The only serious flaw in the image is the two narrow field of view, shot at 18mm using the Tamron 18-250/3.5-6.3. A sigma 10-20/4-5.6 or Pentax 12-24/4 would have served a lot better.

Tags: decoration, enfuse, hdr, interior, real estate

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