Chapter 21. Interior Nuances

A LOT OF WORK goes into preparing a room for photography. A room that looks great to the eye often doesn’t work at all when viewed through the camera. In this chapter, the Notebook looks at photographing another interior and the nuances involved, first for the camera and later on in Photoshop.

For the Camera

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The room looks inviting and well appointed to people actually in it. That isn’t how the camera sees it. The camera has no visceral experience, no feelings about what’s going on when it enters the room. It’s not distracted by conversation, music, video, or the antics of those in the room. It records the reality of what is, through a monocular and often unkind point of view (Figure ...

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