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I have a light placed to the right of the camera next to the cabinet and pointed at the floor and end of
the bed. You can see a reflection in the armoire and the corner of the light stand. On the other side of
the cabinet is another raw light with diffusion pointed at the couch and you can see the shadows on
the wall. A third light is on the floor at the head of the bed to skim light along the bottom of the bed.
The fourth light is the fill umbrella over the camera.
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I bracketed my shutter speed here again to get a darker window. Now that all the lighting was done
and exposure set, I had one problem and it was the side of the armoire. Besides the reflections it was
dark and there was nowhere to put a light to brighten it up. Now was time for the Disappearing Light,
aka Hide-a-light.
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I opened the base image in PS and drag over the window exposure and the cabinet exposure.
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I select the window using the Polygonal Lasso Tool and then add a layer mask to the window exposure
and this makes the outside window show well.
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Then I add a layer mask to Layer 2, add a mask, and paint over the cabinet to reveal the lighter colored side and also lighten the carpet at the same time.
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This is the key technique. You place a light in your scene to light a specific area. Then you
use Hide-All masks to reveal, by painting on the mask, the effect of that light but not the
light itself. Think about this further and you can see how you can do this technique even
with a flash and i'll show you that coming up.
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So lets look at another image one more time to make sure it all makes sense. Below on the left is the
before and after. On the left image there is window light coming in directly and creating shadows and
that works well. There is an umbrella left, squeezed against the wall to add fill coming on the backs of
the chair and room overall. The camera is in the doorway. The right image is the finished image. The
shelves on the left of the cabinet are brighter. The wall above is brighter, the carpet on the right is
brighter. The window outside is brighter.
First, I bracketed my
exposures for the window and inside light
as well. I had to
choose the left exposure as my base image to keep the direct
sun coming through
the windows from being to hot so the exterior exposure is to
dark and I replaced
the windows.
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To solve the inside issues with the cabinets and floor, I shot two images with strobes: the left shows filling in the cabinet dark holes and the right shows brightening the carpet. ends up being to dark and I
fix that next. Then I replaced the windows using the same techniques shown previously.
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.
Here you can see the
brighter cabinet.
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