 Rich |
How to Shoot Indoor Computer Work Station I have been asked by a friend to shoot a picture of a 911 call center. He wants a picture of a dispatcher at his work station in low light. He does not want to see the flash. I will be using a Canon 30D. I don't have a flash yet. I experimented shooting my computer using one shot and also HDR. I am buying a Canon Flash. Thanks for your help!
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Mark Feldstein |
Howdy Rich. Are you looking for the solution or do you want some help in finding your own solution that would work. If it's the latter, why don't you start off with telling us your own possible solutions and thoughts on how to do this. THEN I'll lay odds that some of us, including me, would be glad to offer some suggestions starting with a solid tripod and a cable release. Take it light ;>) Mark
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Pete H |
Rich, I did a shot like this three years ago for our dispatch center. It was for a city magazine. I was told they wanted something that captured the essence of the dispatch center. That's what we photographers do; we have creative control for the client. I'll tell you what I did, but not sure if that will help you. The room I shot was pretty dark with just CRT's and control lights on their consoles. Guess what? There are fluorescent lights over head. The first thing I did was turn them all on. I took a shot of the room, focusing on one work station in the foreground using a wide-angle lens. I referenced my camera on a particular spot with a tripod. I took another at a slow shutter speed and asked some people to just walk thru the shot as this would capture the hustle and bustle with image blur. Lights off now. Same shot but exposing only for the CRT's. Another shot exposing for the lights on the radio dispatch board. Another shot with the operator sitting at his position with a muted flash to rim light him. I layered all the files and burned in the CRT, the lights on the board, the operator and the people moving thru the frame in the background. Of course, I shot all this in Raw format so I could correct color temp differences. Shazam! Easy as pie.
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hello Rich, I also did a similar shot of a call center and used a 580EX mounted on the camera (bounced off a 10' ceiling for illumination of the work space) and a slave 430EX (positioned at the side to illuminate the people sitting at the workstations with a thin shoot through umbrella to diffuse). With a little tweak of my Raw image in Adobe Camera Raw, it came out sharp and nicely exposed. I did bracket some shots for possible HDR but didn't need to go that route. I did also shoot different exposures for the CRTs, but since the work station was the focus and not details of the CRTs, I didn't need to use layers to blend them together as Pete did in his shoot. Just another option for you to consider. Good Luck!
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Milo Podboronsson |
Hi Rich, If you shoot using tripod or you have a stady hand try even high iso but ensure of correct exposure or even over expose to avoid high grain and low quality details. Opening your raw images in camera raw in photoshop use recovery tool for dark and overexposed part of the image. Good luck.
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