Comments on: A Stunning Entry Shot By Matt Stec

By: Mikael P

Mikael P — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:21:25 +0000

Nice one, but it took me a long time to notice that theres water and not black marmor around the steps.

By: Vince DeStefano

Vince DeStefano — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:47:26 +0000

Matt,
Hopefully you can jump the ditch and land over here in Australia, Mabey I can twist your arm to come work with us over here in Melbourne!

Cheers
Vince

By: Mike Yother

Mike Yother — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:02:10 +0000

Awesome!! Also, an excellent example of the difference between photographer and Realtor photos. Imagine what Matt could do with the houses Gary Harryman has listed? You could make an Annie Liebovitz style coffee table book with them. And please, I mean no discredit to Gary’s photos because they are really good but the differences speak for themselves.

Cherie, I too wish these houses were in my market. Besides being boring, its hard to make a 3/2/2 white stucco/Spanish lace/popcorn ceiling cookie cutter house stand out among the 4,000+ other ones just like it on the market.

Again Matt, awesome work.

By: gary

gary — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:31:10 +0000

Matt, Congrats on the publication.

By: Matt Stec

Matt Stec — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:24:26 +0000

Actually Cherie, look for a next edition of “100 Houses Down Under”. Thanks.
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By: Cherie Irwin

Cherie Irwin — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:27:32 +0000

That’s an incredible shot…I’m ready to buy that house! Where do I sign? Oh, its in New Zealand, right? That could be a problem. I’ll get I’ll have to settle for this stellar photo!

Beautiful work, Matt! I wish I had subjects such as this to shoot, but I’m certain that I wouldn’t do nearly the job that you have done. Magazine worthy, without a doubt!

By: Matt Stec

Matt Stec — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:05:32 +0000

Wow, Larry, thanks, I don’t know what to say, I’d like to thank the academy, my parents….. ya know.
No, seriously, This was shot on a 16-35 fitted on a 5D, little correction to your description Larry, two Hensels that I mentioned are a 800W studio strobes, not continuous. As for postprocessing, main thing is I guess removing the nasty barrel distortion that 16-35 produces, rest is mainly a slight Lightroom adjustments, not too much in this case, It was a fairly easy shot in fact having such power in flashes, Hensels were set to 3/4 power, and two SB28s in the bedroom on full power, it was a sunny day and since it’s winter now here, the shadows are low, the door area was completely in the shade. Sun was behind me slightly to the right, a bit like the shadows produced by one of the Hensels inside, I wanted it to create long harsh shadows of the deck table and chairs almost as if it was a sunset light flooding the room on the right. Because the main foreground light is produced by strobes I had to turn the WB up a bit to warm the scene up which worked great giving the sky even deeper blue, even though it was already quite good being polarized. Thanks.
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By: Raye Bellinger

Raye Bellinger — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:57:50 +0000

I would particularly like to hear/read about the post-processing and color balance Matt uses. I agree, great images and I nice chance to learn more photography tips.