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[aparmley]

I've been a little busy these past few days - Vacation.

Been painting! LOL - nice vacation huh. Well - We're doing, wait, I'm doing the living room. . .

75% complete - touch ups tomorrow - heres a peak - piss poor pictures, I'm tired and well thats it. . .

http://parmley.smugmug.com/photos/66362630-M.jpg

The front door - better than the old dark dark chocolate on cream. . . . Yes Don [cdi] thats Mark Twain House Brown on the door, how did you guess [its a dark barn redish color. Whibal assisted shots here. . .

way too many obstructions, clearest view of the door walls and trim. I had lots of noise in the door - my own fault ISO 800 and improper exposures, I'm beat.

http://parmley.smugmug.com/photos/66362639-M.jpg

And what lies in my future bright and early tomorrow.

http://parmley.smugmug.com/photos/66362646-M.jpg

[timmciglobal]

Interesting color... seems... drab... though I have a friend with a similar color and the furnitute is all vibrant and it works.

Tim

[cdifoto]

Looks good to me so far Andy...but why the mention of my name about the Tom Sawyer? :confused:

[aparmley]

Interesting color... seems... drab... though I have a friend with a similar color and the furnitute is all vibrant and it works.

Tim

Thats cool Tim - For us its gorgeous! we had [imagine] white-cream like walls with dark dark chocolate brown front door and trim. . . Horrible cheap apartment colors. Now we have a nice warm mocha syrup on the walls, crisp white trim and baseboard and a nice dark barn red door [mark twain house brown] - LOL - Its a great change! The room feels like our house is about 2x the value than what it really is, so its not so drab for us - perhaps the pictures didn't do it proper justice.

Looks good to me so far Andy...but why the mention of my name about the Tom Sawyer? :confused:

LOL - Sorry Don - poor attempt at exhausted humor I suppose - I couldn't understand why the paint on the door was called mark twain house brown - its a deep dark red. . . LOL :cool:

All done - I'll have to take pics soon - too tired tonight.

[ReF]

i do some interior remodeling and many times a lot is lost in the pictures. i guess it takes some practice, proper light, etc.

[aparmley]

i do some interior remodeling and many times a lot is lost in the pictures. i guess it takes some practice, proper light, etc.

Yea its tough ReF - When 45mm is as wide as you get, makes indoor shoots like full room stuff extremely hard! :cool:

[ReF]

Yea its tough ReF - When 45mm is as wide as you get, makes indoor shoots like full room stuff extremely hard! :cool:

geez, i here i am wishing that i could go wider than the 15mm fishy. yeah i usually just shoot whenever the work is done or when it's convenient (especially before all the holdhold junk gets put back) so lighting isn't always the best. and it doesn't help that the kind of interior shots we're all used to seeing is done by pros that are probably using special lighting gear/techniques

[cdifoto]

*note to self: you cannot afford to shoot interiors so forget it!

[Clyde]

I've been a little busy these past few days - Vacation.

Been painting! LOL - nice vacation huh. Well - We're doing, wait, I'm doing the living room. . .

Painting is hard work!

When 45mm is as wide as you get, makes indoor shoots like full room stuff extremely hard!

Don't you have a kit lens? 28 isn't so bad, and since the walls are areas of flat color, you should be able to correct any distortion in PS. Seems like this is the ideal situation for the kit...

Add a little texture to the walls and you are a mural painter, and then next thing you know, you are lusting after large easels as well as L glass...

Clyde

[TheObiJuan]

I feel your pain on this, I recently had to paint the inside of my house....

[aparmley]

I feel your pain on this, I recently had to paint the inside of my house....

LMAO - haha thanx obi, did you and your lovely wife partake in this wonderful adventure together - I just got done hanging all the pictures and other various artifacts women find necessary to purchase. . . why I was the one stuck doing that? All because I know what level and evenly spaced is? thats not fair! :cool: She got mad because she was trying to figure out why everything was grouped together 1/3 of the way from the left corner and 1/3 of the way down from the ceiling. I'm like, "Rule of the thirds, hellloooooooooo!" craziness.

[Bluedog]

me too as I hate painting even though I'm pretty good at it. Thats my problem is I take too much time doing it as not to be messy. I've still got to finish doing all my fascia boards around the exterior.

Looking good though Andy.

[ReF]

sadly i find painting the easiest part in interior remodeling :(

[aparmley]

here are three shots of it all finished:

http://parmley.smugmug.com/photos/66784670-M.jpg

http://parmley.smugmug.com/photos/66784683-M.jpg

http://parmley.smugmug.com/photos/66784663-M.jpg

either I'm really tired - I've been tired all week! WTF - but either I'm really tired or its hard to get everything exposed properly and WB set. . . . flash or no flash. . . oh well. . .the actual color - which is frustrating. . . wait you know what. . .wait a minute. . . .

Edit- in #2 that isn't a stain on the ceiling - light reflection in the lens. . . .

[aparmley]

here is as close to the color as I think I can get it - had to warm it up just a tad [maybe 50 degrees] from the Whibal reading . . . tricky.

http://parmley.smugmug.com/photos/66787936-M.jpg

[cdifoto]

I like it Andy. Looks cozy.

[ReF]

ah, okay, it looks very different with the furniture and stuff in place (colored rooms never look right to me empty and without matching furniture anyways). and did you use different lighting, or just diff settings? either way it's lookin nice :)

[aparmley]

I like it Andy. Looks cozy.

Thanks Don! that was exactly our goal.

ah, okay, it looks very different with the furniture and stuff in place (colored rooms never look right to me empty and without matching furniture anyways). and did you use different lighting, or just diff settings? either way it's lookin nice :)

Different settings for some of those shots. The lighting is a mix of tugsten and flourescent [one floor lamp]. Thanks ReF, I liked the clean look before having to hang everything on the walls - after a paint job like this you want to go out and replace all your random furniture you've collected over the years with something a little bit more coordinated and little bit more nice. . . ;) but damn - I could get a 30D and maybe a lens for that - we have to sit down and discuss priorities here. . . LMAO.