 Dawn Penich |
How to create warmth while photographing a room I am starting to photograph homes for a marketing company and I noticed that my photo's aren't making the room look appealing enough due to lighting situations. They want me to photograph the rooms with the lights on no matter what. The windows get blown out a lot and sometimes the entire room isn't in focus. You can see my focus point too much. I usually set it to F22 and let the light meter decide the the rest. I am using the canon rebel digital. But still, all is not in focus to infinity. Not always. I wonder what ISO would be better. I am using 100 always. I take exterior and a lot of interior. My interior are the only ones with the issues. Thanks
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David W. Vayro-Rombouts |
first of all, explain to the company that you are the photographer and it is up to you to choose the lighting. if they want to sell their houses then they need to let you make the decisions. i havent been lucky enough to use a canon rebel so I cant be of much help.
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Jon Close |
The customer is always right. Insist on doing it your way only, and you'll have yourself as your only client. Using window light only is not going to represent the interior well. Turn on all the room lights. Set the white balance for Tungsten for true colors, or for Daylight to give 'warm' yellowish tone. f/22 is probably too small an aperture and diffraction is taking away from the sharpness. Use f/8-f/11 which should give you plenty depth of field for interiors. Assuming you're using the EF 18-55: with focal length set to 18mm (equiv to 28mm), then setting focus at about 6 ft will give depth of field from about 3-23 ft. Focus just over 8 ft will give the hyperfocal, with depth of field from about 4 ft to infinity. There is too much light difference between the daylight outdoors (the view through a window) and the typically lit interior to get a good exposure for both in one shot. Neither film nor digital has the dynamic range needed. If the scene through the window is well exposed, the interior is underexposed and vice versa. You can flashes/strobes to brighten the interior. This usually takes several flash units arranged in the room since a single on-camera flash cannot evenly light a whole room. Alternatively, with Photoshop or other editing software, you can combine two images: Take one shot properly exposing the interior. Without moving the camera or changing focus - take a second shot at a faster shutter speed to properly expose the outdoor scene in the window. Then digitally combine the images.
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