INDOORS SHOOTING

Ask any interior photographer, and they’ll tell you that one of the chief problems of shooting interiors is balancing contrast. The reason for this is that daylight streaming through the windows is much brighter than the indoor illumination, and you can’t expose for one without under- (or over-) exposing the other.

The best solution to this perennial challenge is to bracket your shot using the Auto Exposure Bracketing feature (AEB) on your camera. This will let you take several frames at different exposures, which you can then blend into a high-dynamic-range (HDR) image, bringing out the detail from both extremes. See Photo Answers on page 98 for help with HDR images.

Balancing the light

After shooting three exposures (two stops under, metered value, two stops over), the three frames of this high-contrast interior were blended together to give an HDR image that balances the underand overexposed areas to give smooth, even tones.