Post-production from the latest shoot.
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Before
After
Showrooms never have a huge amount of space around each set. The client wanted each kitchen separated into its own environment to avoid the distraction and confusion of including other kitchens in the background.
Images were lit with a massive soft box fill & smaller soft box as main light to the side (for contrast), to create a bright space as if big windows are just out of shot.
How I did it (for Photoshop users)...
The new walls and ceilings were created with solid colour layers placed in a layer masked groups - matched with the dropper tool, rasterized and brushed with colour selections of the existing wall, to match shadow and highlight tones. Shadows were added in the joins via selection, noise added overall to match the rest of the image.
The clock highlight is covered with a rasterized solid colour layer and the times were painted back on from scratch.
The window was photographed to match perspective by using the original image on camera screen and shooting to match (same lens, settings and shift movements). It was lit with remote bounced flash to match light direction and contrast. Perspective point was found by adding lines across multiple straights, finding the point at which they cross. New window was skewed to match new lines drawn from the perspective point, cut out, colour matched, darkened / lightened to match the light across walls.
I lightened areas of worktops and walls, tap edges etc and warmed slightly to bring the light from the new windows inside.
A new floor was shot to match perspectives and added.
Not much then.
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