Twilight photograph is a special kind of photograph that realtors usually use when it comes to showcasing the exterior of the house. For example, if you have a house listing with a beautiful garden or swimming pool, then using a sunset photo is the best way to take advantage of the beautiful sky at dusk. Doing exterior twilight shots is important in real estate because it can add drama to any listing.
However, it is quite difficult to get the perfect twilight photos. It takes you much time to prepare for a well-exposed twilight shot at a particular time of day using the right setup and correct camera settings. For this reason, today Qblends will share with you some useful tips for editing a twilight photo. If you have much time for preparing for a perfect marketing concept, do not miss to use a sunset photo.
How to edit a Twilight Photograph
To get the amazing sunset photos to showcase to attract more potential customers, photographers need to get the nice exposures. Then it is important to edit a great exposure. And these are the different ways of editing a twilight image.
- Manual blending: This is the first step when it comes to editing an exposure. You need to have 3-5 exposures and blend them together to get all the details of the house. While this method adds a redundant step to boosting brightness, this is a great way to choose layers you need to blend. In effect, you can highlight both interior and exterior lighting in an image.
- Fixing Blown-Out Highlights: Next, you should use a layer mask to recover blown highlights and get the best ambient exposures, one for the foreground and one for the sky.
- Removing Orange Windows: You can desaturate the windows or remove the orange color by adjusting the white balance, although the sky will get much bluer as you move towards white.
Qblends team can effectively convert twilight images into daytime images and vice-versa, i.e. daytime images into twilight images.
Edit DayLight photo to Dusk photo using Day to Dusk conversions
- Shadows addition: add shadows to the appropriate objects present in the architectural properties to give more depth and definition to the photographs.
- Sky replacement: Changing the sky is another technique that we use to make the property image appealing. Here, we replace the dark or gloomy sky with beautiful dusk or sunset.
- Color correction: We transform and balance the colors to ensure a warm temperature for the building structures. It helps to set the right mood for the viewers to buy the property.
- Improving the interior appeal: We can add internal lighting to the building spaces for improving its look. Besides, adding fire to fireplaces or chimneys can also amplify the warm and welcoming feel of the homes.
- Enhancement of the external environment: We can place a moon or stars in the sky to enhance the external environment. If required, we can also add exterior lighting like street lights, pool or garden lights, headlights, etc.
- Correction of perspectives distortion: We carry out vertical and horizontal straightening of property pictures. So that we can remove any kind of perspective distortions present in the image.
- Flaws removal: We make sure that the property images are of professional quality. Such as removing imperfections such as dust spots, scratched lenses, unwanted reflections, and more.
- HDR processing: We use HDR image processing to create photorealistic and dynamic real estate images. That will showcase the best characteristics of the property to attract maximum customers.
- Adjustment of various image properties: We make appropriate adjustments in the strength, opacity, brightness, contrast, curves, sharpness, etc. to enhance the image quality.
