Just finished a home in Monte Sereno for another designer. Sheltering in place put a damper on anything for a while, but recently activity has been a few shoots each week. Still practicing distancing.
All shots were ambient lighting using a 24mm TSE lens shifted and stitched. Exterior shot had a pop of diffused flash on the ottoman, glasses, etc. Also darkened the glass door views camera left.
Enticed their ridgeback with popcorn in the last shot.
Posting just because it's been quiet on this forum.
What lens did you use? Was the camera ff or crop?
Canon 5D MKIII, TSe 24mm lens @ f8, shutter varied room to room but same per shift set. Composition and focus done with CamRanger 2 on a 7" android tablet.
The living room was landscape with a vertical shift. Outdoor was landscape with left to right shifts. The last 2 were portrait oriented with left to right shifts. Camera was mounted to a Custom Bracket Digital PRO SV bracket on a rolling studio stand. This let me level out the camera and change portrait to landscape without altering level and that saves me a lot of time compared to using a tripod, which was used for all the exterior shots. This was an all day shoot and I preset the exterior shots during the day on different tripods so I was ready during civil and nautical twilight to go from one set of shots to the next. 2 exterior shots were on different FF cameras with lenses around 20-28mm approx. No shifting and just bracketed for layering in post. Some exterior parts were flashed with a remote, just in case I needed them.
a great set thanks for sharing!
J. R.
Yes, all the above posted were with a 24mm TSE. I use that lens for a majority of the work I do. I use a 45mm TSE mostly for exteriors or large rooms and a 17mm TSE for powder rooms and the like. You may want to look into a nodal bracket if you are cannot justify the expense of a TSE for one project.
I'm glad you mentioned the 45mm for outside work as my project is an outside project. I want to photograph some old house in an old town. Most of the houses are less than 50 feet wide and I want to shorten depth of field as much as possible to reduce post processing efforts. Money for a lens is not an issue. I'm not a pro, just a serious armature/hobbyist. Thanks for the info. :-)
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