How to shoot and edit real estate photos

His results are bad, since he doesn’t respect the balance between in and out. His outdoors sky is darker than the indoors mid-tones. Bringing back highlights is fine, but inverting contrast and completely forgetting how indoors lighting connects to outdoors is unacceptable. Unless you are stuck in a dramatic storm, the sky is always brighter than anything else.

Marco Bucci has a very good set of videos about shading and values in painting, better start with that as a safety net before planning to be creative about lighting:

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