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Gale Stoner
 

Shooting Home Interiors


I've been asked to shoot a small bathroom remodel. I'm looking for tips to avoid lighting reflections in the glass shower doors.


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January 24, 2011

 

John H. Siskin
 
 
  Bath shot
Bath shot
The difficulty is to balance the light through the window and in the room.

John H. Siskin

 
 
Hi Gale,
Bathrooms are tough. Some days, it seems like every surface is reflective. For a small bathroom, I will use a single 30-inch shoot-through umbrella and a 200 watt-second, or more, strobe. This is easy to hide, and if the bath is painted a neutral color, the bounce fill will help a lot. If I am going to have to have a reflection, I will put it into the outside window. Then, if I shoot on a tripod, I can take two shots from the same place, one with strobe and one without. I can use the window from the shot without strobe to fix the window with the reflection. If the bath is larger, I can use a couple of lights, just look for good angles. This article might help:
www.siskinphoto.com/magazine/zpdf/architecture-phototechnique.pdf.
Also you might want to look at this blog entry as it is a chapter from my next book about shooting interiors:
www.siskinphoto.com/magazine/zpdf/architecture-phototechnique.pdf
Thanks,


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