Comments on: Images by Peter Aaron/Esto in October Architectural Digest

By: jimi

jimi — Fri, 06 May 2011 23:56:27 +0000

Peter uses an assistant with a portable strobe to walk around and light areas while in frame and then masks them out. The naturalistic look is from insane amounts of post poroduction. You are looking at a composite

By: David Palermo

David Palermo — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:10:16 +0000

I like his work also but in the shot above maybe he could have used a polarizer to get rid of the reflection on the table in the foreground?

David

By: larrylohrman

larrylohrman — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:07:04 +0000

Matt,
Wow, I’m impressed that you could spot the barrel distortion. I can only see it if I open the image in Photoshop and use a vertical guide.

I was thinking that he purposely choose a overcast day so it wouldn’t be too high contrast… I’m thinking that this would be a nightmare to shoot on a bright sunny day with all this glass. Sounds like you would rather shoot images like this on a brighter day. You are right though these images are much lower contrast than many marketing shots.

By: Matt Stec

Matt Stec — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:22:04 +0000

I don’t know Larry, I don’t wanna sound like a smart*** here but I don’t really like them, except maybe for the bathroom shot which I think is great, all the others are “overdone” IMHO, even the photo that you’ve posted here, ceiling looks dirty, lamp looks plasticy, not mentioning the barrel distortion visible on the left, again, these photos aren’t bad, but they aren’t something I’d expect to see in AD either… Blacks are lost, no contrast… I’d expect someone shooting for AD to at least get the weather forecast synchronized for the shoot. just my 2c
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By: Vince DeStefano

Vince DeStefano — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:08:27 +0000

The exterior photos are defintaly HDR, you can see on the first shot the top of the tree has underxposed leaves, The last photo is definatly HDR as the sky is nice and blue, I personaly like to do exterior photos this way and really like Peters work. His WB is perfect.

The interior images I am not to sure about, the second photo that looks slightly wash out looks like it might be strobs as the stairs on the left look like there is a strong light source hitting them. The other images may be HDR with some strobing but Im not experenced enought to pick these.

Very nice work!

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:54:28 +0000

I can only assume he used some type of HDR (multiple exposure developing). I too have started using this technique for exterior shots. I took some recently at a listing around 6pm. They may turn out better than ones taken at mid-day. HDR shots don’t have to look surreal. They can look very realistic and show the best highlights possible. I may eventually find it useful inside as well. So far I haven’t needed it to prevent window “white out”. I effectively accomplish this by dropping the F stop twice and filling the room full of flash.