The last few weeks turned out to be quite tense for us: beside of different current work we first negotiated, then agreed on the details and, finally, our photographer shot the interiors of The State Russian Museum. It were The Stroganov Palace, The Mikhailovsky Palace, The Marble Palace and St.Michael’s Castle. The arrangement also provided for architectural photography of facades of the mentioned buildings and, moreover, The Cabin of Peter the Great. Therefore, we had a whole bunch of work!
Our photographer is a real fan of his job who are penetrating into all the subtlest subtleties of his profession and constantly studying something new. And he so passionately asked us to tell here about how exactly he made these photographs, and we’re so weak in technical details with which he gladly filled us when we agreed to tell that we finally decided to grant him a word. We are confident that someone of you, our customers, are really interested in such information. So, here it is!
“As I already wrote on my web site for several times, I make my interior photos using an HDR technology. HDR means high dynamic range. And this means that every single finished image contains of at least three (sometimes more) photographs. As a minimum, I take one shot for lights, one for middle tones and another one for shadows. When the scene is very high contrast it demands to shoot more photos. Thus, the final image gots all the details in all its parts.
I use this technology since my very first interior photographs. But not so long ago, I found another way of producing an HDR images that differs from what I did earlier. This way demands a bit more time and efforts but at the same time it gives much better result.
After a few of my trainings using this way of HDR photography, a new order arrived in time: interior and architectural photography of several branches of The State Russian Museum. As a result – everybody stayed satisfied”.