fireplace

Two ambient frames blended together, a darker one for the left/brighter half of the frame and a lighter one for the right/darker half of the frame. Shot for an interior designer. This was from the CamRanger-less shoot (rug was super-crooked...straightened in PS :) I wish the rug had been wider so that it could have extended further out on the right side.

 

Also wish I could have shown the tiles a little better here. The tiles were the most important feature to my client in this fireplace scene. She wanted to include the whole fireplace, though, so a tighter detail - highlighting the tiles - wouldn't work. There was a lot of room behind me to step back, so I started out back there at a longer focal length. But the further back I was, the more compressed and indistinct the tiles appeared. My client looked at the shot on the camera LCD, then showed me her iPhone photo of the fireplace and asked 'Can you get the tiles to look like this?' She's quite tall, so from her vantage point and with her iPhone tilted down, the tiles looked great. But this was our last shot and we were running out of time (client was already packing up), so I didn't want to potentially waste time trying out an angle that I was pretty certain would not result in a decent photo. So instead I stepped forward, shot a bit wider, and raised the camera a touch. This resulted in a better view of the tile, but not great. Any suggestions for how I might have approached this one differently? Higher camera position is the only thing I can come up with...

 

Feedback and suggestions are always much appreciated. Thank you!

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