so leaerned a new way of taking pix of real estate...this was my first go at it....i knew i wasnt going to do bad, cuz im awesome lol....i figured i might as well do it with my gf's house and get it framed for her parents for xmas. this was my first before and after shot: stephs house before after big by togish1, on Flickr and this is the final edit: re edit by togish1, on Flickr
Wow nice clean up/edit. Did you add any lights during the exposures? How much is it selling for, lol.
very nice!! I like that you removed the power lines, really cleans the image up and I like the light on the front of the house. Great job!
Nice job Tolga, I see you removed all the trees from the roof line & that really helps the image, I feel removing the house on the far right also would have helped. The house seems to be slightly tilted to me. Thanks for sharing!
very nice, good job making the normal mundane photo into a artsy feel. lighting makes it . Did you make sure the lights in the house were on or was that just the way it was. Nice touch
you guys have no idea how long it took to get to the final image...the final image is composed of probably at least 20 different layers of different sections of the house, driveway, grass, trees, all lit up by a strobe. The interior exposure was a different exposure as well. i know the garage on the far right is a bit distracting, but if i clone it out, i dont think it would look all that great, so i just left it alone. I dont know whether the house is tilted, or i was tilted on the street, or whatever it was, but thats the closest i could get without the street looking lopsided, which was way worse. I also had to to the lens distortion fix in photoshop. All in all, i think it took me about 8-10 hours worth of editing and taking the pics. Its being delivered this coming wednesday, i cant wait to actually see it in person.
Definitely some lens distortion hence the slight crooked appearance. Your work payed off Tolga, it looks great ! Now you need some Xmas lights
I think your time paid off in the lighting of the house both inside & outside. I get what you mean by trying to make it less titlted & making it worse, although the puppet warp tool might be the fix IMHO - How large/small is it going to be printed ?? Nice outside the box gift!!
it'll be a 13x19 print with the frame going out to 18x24 i think it was....ordered it from zazzle.com
Nice work with the layers, I like the overall effect on the exposure. Wish the car wasnt in the driveway... but that would probably have required a re-shoot cuz it'd be a bitch to clone out cleanly. Ron, you're right there is a slight lean to the right - without opening in photoshop - you can line it up on your browser window to see that. Tolga, I get your point about keeping the street line straight, but I wonder if you could have simply cut the image horizontally right above the curb line and rotated the house and the street/curb separately and the cut would have just blended real easily into the grass. For prints... I highly recommend nationsphotolab and try their metallic prints. It would look awesome with this effect, it has a really cool glow with the metallic paper... trust me, I've done dozens of prints with it, pretty much anything looks great on it - but an image like this would look incredible. Good work, thanks for sharing.
