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08-JUL-2006 Michael Weinberg

Model Home in a Mixed Light

Franklin Lakes, NJ

Newly built $1,000,000+ home in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, ready to move in...
all you need is the bucks. Complete with landscaping and hardscaping (paving
stones), I found this structure to be an interesting photographic structure and
lighting exercise. If you note, you will see that the home is rather well lit,
yet there is shade all the way around... in many cases photographing from within
shade to a lighted area or vice versa can cause all kinds of lighting havoc. So I
decided to shoot this subject with a realtively small aperture f9 and high speed,
1/800sec. To achieve this in either aperture or shutter priority, I had to ramp
up the iso to 400. Yes the photo was a little dark, but when I put this photo
through Photoshop's invaluable shadow / highlight tool, the effect is a rather
unusual one. Hope you enjoy....


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Canon EOS 30D ,Canon EF 20mm f/2.8 USM
1/800s f/9.0 at 20.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Eldar Kadymov03-Jul-2007 15:10
It's kinda frustrating seeing great artist engaging in to polemics with such dumbass like this fella Paul... I have to defend my friend by simply saying that this is the best image of this house ever, nevermind the rest of collection of houses you depicted ! On the side note, I wouldn't pay even half the price for house of this kind, it's so puritanically and nudnickally Victorian, LOL !
Michael Weinberg25-Dec-2006 23:22
Hi Paul. Thanks for your comment. I have just found from experience when shooting buidings in direct sunlight, shooting at high speeds at f8-f9 helps to both control exposure and get some blue sky as well.
Paul 25-Dec-2006 19:59
It's odd that you HAD to use ISO 400 when you could've simply stepped down the awfully high for the angle shutter speed... 1/800 for a 20mm shot? 20x1.6ish is about 31 or so mm. You could easily have used 1/50 or 1/60 shutter speed and stayed at a lower ISO.
Cindy18-Oct-2006 03:46
Very well done Michael. Must be PS CS2 that has this tool??