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Tips on Shooting Interiors I want to take some interior shots of homes that a decorator client has set up the home for. What are some good tips on doing this?
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hello Daryl, John Siskin is your man. I took a lighting course from him here at BetterPhoto, and he is fantastic. Your question comes with a lot of built-in variables so to tell you to set up 2 lights at 10 & 2 will not suffice for an answer. You may need to bounce light for some areas, use window/available lighting mixed with strobes, maybe even a snoot or grid will be required. Each room will have its own requirements and will call for a different approach. I do recommend a couple of good strobes (I have Alien Bees and also use 2 Canon Speedlights) and a white balance card as you will most likely need them for the majority of your room lighting situations. Reflectors, diffusors, shoot through umbrellas, softboxes are all possibilities as well. http://www.siskinphoto.com/Workshop.html http://www.betterphoto.com/courseOverview.php?cspID=172 John's course is highly recommended and he will take the mystery out of lighting and give you a good knowledge basre to grow from :) Hope this helps.
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doug Nelson |
This kind of thing is what wide-angle lenses are good for. The wide end of most zooms may give you noticeable barrel distortion. Shoot through doorways or align a corner with the edge of your frame and see if such distortion is noticeable. Drop a horizontal or vertical reference guide line in your software against straight lines in your image. Hopefully, the distortion isn't too bad. If that's the case, your're good to go. If not, shoot in RAW next time so that you can correct this in your software. If you are going to do this for a living, long term, choose your equipment with this in mind. Select your wide-angle zooms or primes by researching widely available tests. Or you may consider dedicating a full frame sensor camera and the very best distortion-free wideangles to just this use. Canons can easily adapt to other manufacturer's lenses, using adapters. Write off the cost on your business taxes.
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John H. Siskin |
Hi Daryl, Actually, I just finished writing a book about shooting interiors, but unfortunately it won’t be out for about a year. The book has kept me away from these Q & A pages. However I have written on this topic, and even posted some of the book to come on my blog. Generally I would say that shooting interiors is the most technically challenging aspect of photography. Each room is really a custom project. Hi Doug, Hi Carlton, Articles Interior Lighting: How The Pros Do It Blog entries: http://siskinphoto.com/blog/?p=621
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