Casa Loma Dining Hall

[Shadowman]

f/3.5, ISO 200, 1/45sec

[Mike Buckley]

I really like the mood of this scene, John. Especially nice use of indoor and outdoor color balance.

[nimitzbenedicto]

Cool! Looks like an ad for a high-end mag.

[Mark von Kanel]

Great shot John worthy of a fashion mag BUT. (there is almost always one! ) you gotta get rid of the green house in the garden

[Stagecoach]

Quite moody John but now that greenhouse has been mentioned, what a daft place to build it.

Was this done with just one or more exposures?

Grahame

[Shadowman]

I really like the mood of this scene, John. Especially nice use of indoor and outdoor color balance.

Thanks Mike.

[Shadowman]

Cool! Looks like an ad for a high-end mag.

Thanks Victor.

[Shadowman]

Great shot John worthy of a fashion mag BUT. (there is almost always one! ) you gotta get rid of the green house in the garden

Mark,

Thanks for the comments, that's the realtor's big selling point.

[Shadowman]

Quite moody John but now that greenhouse has been mentioned, what a daft place to build it.

Was this done with just one or more exposures?

Grahame

Grahame,

Thanks for the comments. One exposure.

[IzzieK]

Very good shot for one exposure. I would have thought it was two, one for the inside and one for the outside of the window as I had seen most shots like this.

[Kodiak]

Cool! Looks like an ad for a high-end mag.

Looks like… but is not! As the greenhouse was already mentioned (I note here
that you did a good balance in vs outdoor light and you had no choice but to take
the glass structure along in the shot)) I would point out that the horizon
needs mending as well as some keystone tweaking.

Otherwise, a very theatrical indoor decor and a great take!

[Manfred M]

Ah, Casa Loma; I haven't been there since I was a child; I vividly remember wanting to have a secret passage between rooms. like I saw there. A daughter of a friend is planning for her wedding there; I understand that you can buy a decent mid-range car for what they charge and there is about a 2-year waiting list.

This is a very difficult shot to do; you have a classical mixed lighting situation, in a very public place, so the usual tricks (i.e taking in some lights and lighting the room)are not available to you as a photographer. I assume you were part of a public tour of the building?

Does it work as something to remember your trip by; yes of course. Does it need more work in post; I would have to answer yes there too. The exterior needs a bit darkening (colour correction looks fine) and the interior needs to be lightened up and the yellow cast removed. Two or three layers in post (assuming your are working from a raw file) would probably make a lot of difference to this image. The greenhouse in the middle of the window would be a pain to rework, but the keystoning is an easy fix too, as is a small clockwise rotation to straighten the room out.

[Mike Buckley]

the interior needs to be lightened up and the yellow cast removed.

I like the mood resulting from the darkness and the color cast.

[bnnrcn]

Hi John, I love the mood of the photo as it is But technically it might look better with applying the comments suggested above

[Kodiak]

I like the mood resulting from the darkness and the color cast.

Me too!

[Mark von Kanel]

I like the mood resulting from the darkness and the color cast.

me three leave it as it is a picture can be tooo perfect excluding the green house that is

[Shadowman]

Very good shot for one exposure. I would have thought it was two, one for the inside and one for the outside of the window as I had seen most shots like this.

Thanks for the comments Izzie. I wish I had the opportunity to really work it but no tripods allowed,

[Shadowman]

Looks like… but is not! As the greenhouse was already mentioned (I note here
that you did a good balance in vs outdoor light and you had no choice but to take
the glass structure along in the shot)) I would point out that the horizon
needs mending as well as some keystone tweaking.

Otherwise, a very theatrical indoor decor and a great take!

Kodiak,

Thanks for the comments and critique.

[Shadowman]

Ah, Casa Loma; I haven't been there since I was a child; I vividly remember wanting to have a secret passage between rooms. like I saw there. A daughter of a friend is planning for her wedding there; I understand that you can buy a decent mid-range car for what they charge and there is about a 2-year waiting list.

This is a very difficult shot to do; you have a classical mixed lighting situation, in a very public place, so the usual tricks (i.e taking in some lights and lighting the room)are not available to you as a photographer. I assume you were part of a public tour of the building?

Does it work as something to remember your trip by; yes of course. Does it need more work in post; I would have to answer yes there too. The exterior needs a bit darkening (colour correction looks fine) and the interior needs to be lightened up and the yellow cast removed. Two or three layers in post (assuming your are working from a raw file) would probably make a lot of difference to this image. The greenhouse in the middle of the window would be a pain to rework, but the keystoning is an easy fix too, as is a small clockwise rotation to straighten the room out.

Hi Manfred,

Yes, part of a tour, also the outside light would change from overcast to full sun within minutes which made shooting even more difficult. Thanks for the comments and critique.

[Shadowman]

I like the mood resulting from the darkness and the color cast.

Thanks Mike.