reallllllly bad composite job

The trees have started doing cool things outside…. I’m struck every time I walk to the back of the house by the view out the back window. So I thought I’d try to capture it.

The guys wondered why I was muttering curses and came back to see what I was doing. I started prattling on about how I needed to:
1) Put neutral density over the windows.
2) Use a few strobe packs in the far side of the room bounced off the ceiling.
3) Bother to take a color temperature reading.
4) Bother to level the camera.
5) Bother to tidy the dresser
6) Bother to flatten the camera to the rear plane of the shot.

I finally just took two exposures and butchered them together in PhotoShop with all the sensitivity of a ransom note.

This is all profoundly hypocritical since I’m usually the fist one to point out photos in ads and home mags where they composite in the windows and smugly point out: “Look – the photographer was lazy and didn’t feel like lighting the shot right.”

Never-mind the fussing… I just wanted to document what I’m seeing every time I go take a leak.

You know… to not blog about.