Half year ago we did a product photo-session for Vieler International.
Now Andre Vieler asked us to shoot exterior photos of the whole plant. We used a fork lifter to raise the photographer to a height where was much less perspective distortion. This works much better then any tilt/shift lens, I wish we could have such lifter for all of our architectural projects:-)
Here I’ll show you how I did a post-production, some parts of work flow. Here is the image before and after:
Mouse Over to see Before and After
1. First of all I clean the image using Healing Brush and Clone Stump Tools
2. Then correct perspective distortion using the Adobe Photoshop Free Transform Tool
3. Clone missing parts of grass
4. Making a brand new asphalt:-)
- duplicate layer
- create new layer and fill it Black
- Filter/Noise/ Add Noise (18%, Gaussian, Monochromatic)
- Filter/Stylize/Glowing Edges (Edge Width 1, Edge Brightness 4, Smoothness 3)
- Blending options – Overlay
- Duplicate this layer
- Merge last 3 layers
- Add Vector Mask holding Alt Key
- Pick up a white brush and paint over asphalt, change opacity of this layer as you like:
Architecture exterior photography asphalt retouching in Photoshop
This method works best on a light gray asphalt.
If you have other ideas how to improve architecture photos, please share them here:-)
Wow! Quite a difference. Looks amazing. Thanks for sharing
Wow! Certainly made a difference and raisd the whole feel of the site
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Best,
Scott
That is a great final image! I followed most of the workflow changes. Thanks for sparking ideas and sharing your creativity.
Nice work! Bravo!
Hi there really nice post effect.
I noticed that the building looks clean and crisp and allot more saturated. I would really love some guidance as to exactly what was done to the building itself, like type and amount of sharpening etc…
thanking you in advance
Thank you. I’ll do a post about sharping, hope next week.