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Aug 20, 2011 16:11:13   #
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Hi,

I am so excited to find this fourm. Everyone is so nice here. I am wanting to know any advice on photographing rooms. I am seeing a need for a book with many pictures of what ever it is people want to know about and having how they took the pictues.Like what lens and what setting was used. I would love to see books for myself on maybe cottage houses or farm houses or bed and breakfasts. Bed and breakfasts are my passion. I want to get my new camera so I can take pictures of my bed and breakfast and then my friends bed and breakfast. If anyone has any advice on photographing rooms I would love to hear it.

Linda

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Aug 21, 2011 01:05:00   #
PhotoArtsLA Loc: Boynton Beach
 
Photographing rooms is not dissimilar to architectural interior photography. My somewhat lengthy career includes such photography, and I've known others who shoot such images as well.

Non distorting wide angle lenses are very useful, but even telephoto lenses are summoned for details, and occasionally macro lenses are used for even finer details.

Computer software, however, makes many an inexpensive, distorting wide angle zoom lens into a more rectilinear tool.

However, in using wide angles in a room, you need to keep the camera level, minimizing keystone distortion, to give your image a fair shot. Watch vertical lines and make sure they are not converging or diverging.

Windows: You have choices as to how to handle windows.

1) You can gel them to bring down brightness and change color temperature. Often interiors are lit in warm, "tungsten-ish" light, and daylight is blue, thus an 85N6 or 85N9 gel might do the trick. The "N" stands for neutral density, which subtracts brightness by f/stops, two stops for N6, and three for N9. The 85 is the color changer from daylight to tungsten balance.

2) You can light the place with strobes such as to make everything daylight and also tame the bright window, BUT, you have to take care not to make things look awful. It can take a LOT of light to tame the daylight. However, the glow of a window is also a good thing, but not more than about 2 to 2.5 f-stops brighter than the interior light level.

3) The smart shooter's choice: gel a straight 85, and wait for the right time of day that brightness levels match to your satisfaction.

When shooting a destination, like a bed and breakfast, it often helps to consider your shoot to be a photo essay which reveals the universe which is the destination. A story told through pictures, highlighted by good room shots.

Well, two cents worth,

Richard Brown

Massively strobe lit interior by Richard Brown
Massively strobe lit interior by Richard Brown...

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Aug 22, 2011 21:05:08   #
KathyinNH Loc: Kingston, NH
 
Richard I love this shot. I took shots of B&B's when I went on a Cookie Walk through the B&B's in the White Mountain Valley in NH. They were all decorated for the Christmas Holiday and are open to the public for the second weekend in December. A wonderful opportunity to get some beutiful B&B shots.

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Aug 28, 2011 16:21:32   #
lindann
 
Thank you so much.
What lens did you use on this picture?

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Aug 28, 2011 16:21:58   #
lindann
 
Could you post them?

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Aug 28, 2011 17:34:08   #
PhotoArtsLA Loc: Boynton Beach
 
On the interior I posted, I used a 4x5 view camera, and as I recall, a 90mm Schneider Super Angulon. Plus, thousands upon thousands of watt-seconds of strobe light. I used to shoot a lot of architectural images for a custom home builder in Florida. Very big, very amazing custom homes, all over 20,000 square feet.

One of the ultra custom things I shot was a his and hers IRONWOOD bathtub, made to fit the particular bodies of the owners, and if you know about ironwood, it is like iron. The $250 router bits (top of the line) used to carve the thing lasted 15 seconds, each. The tub, alone, was several hundred thousand dollars. Hand carved oak blinds, etc. Gorgeous place. The art on the walls dwarfed the price of the house, I later learned.

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Aug 29, 2011 05:38:37   #
KathyinNH Loc: Kingston, NH
 
That house must have been a feast for the eyes. How some of the world lives.

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