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Hi all.
I recently took a short break in a cottage (Wales) Anyways I took a handful of photos of the interior just for fun as you do (if you have this clicking obsession) plus an outside photo from the beach.
I sent them the exterior shot and they really liked it asked if I had any more so I sent them the few interior photos I had nothing special as they had same shots on there site, granted resolution would be better on mine as newer camera.
They loved them (surprisingly) and have asked if I would be interested in taking some weekend breaks free of charge and taking some photos whilst there as they need some new for website.
Obviously this is not my profession but would love to have a go. So I am asking for advice from anyone on here whom does this type of thing. The big concern really is these are small spaces widest I can go is 24mm on a 6d which does distort. Do have a sigma 10/20mm on a Canon 450d too. I am pretty competent with the camera and photoshop. Advice on the small space is what I'm after plus any tips n tricks anybody is happy to give away, links to sites with info would be a help too, obviously I have looked myself on line but it's a big place and I maybe missing some gems of info.

Gaz

ps: If in wrong section could a mod please move to a section that would recieve a better coverage.
Cheers.
 
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TBH, it's not the camera lens combination you want to worry about so much. The 10-20 sounds ideal and the 450d will be quite adequate.

Instead, have a think about how you're going to *light* your rooms. Ideally, you'll want to be working with a couple of off-camera lights so you can set up a pleasing balance of daylight through the windows and a well lit interior. That said, you can get away with just one if you're clever. By locking your camera down on a tripod, there are some really cool techniques you can do with multiple exposures and masking, so that you can shoot an entire room with just one flash, walking it round and illuminating different parts of the scene. Think about your white balance and how you can gel your flash(es) to make things look warm and inviting, or cool and modern, depending on the decor and the time of day.

Good luck!
 
cargo said:
Hi all.
I recently took a short break in a cottage (Wales) Anyways I took a handful of photos of the interior just for fun as you do (if you have this clicking obsession) plus an outside photo from the beach.
I sent them the exterior shot and they really liked it asked if I had any more so I sent them the few interior photos I had nothing special as they had same shots on there site, granted resolution would be better on mine as newer camera.
They loved them (surprisingly) and have asked if I would be interested in taking some weekend breaks free of charge and taking some photos whilst there as they need some new for website.
Obviously this is not my profession but would love to have a go. So I am asking for advice from anyone on here whom does this type of thing. The big concern really is these are small spaces widest I can go is 24mm on a 6d which does distort. Do have a sigma 10/20mm on a Canon 450d too. I am pretty competent with the camera and photoshop. Advice on the small space is what I'm after plus any tips n tricks anybody is happy to give away, links to sites with info would be a help too, obviously I have looked myself on line but it's a big place and I maybe missing some gems of info.

Gaz

ps: If in wrong section could a mod please move to a section that would recieve a better coverage.
Cheers.
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Who is "them"?
 
I often take pans indoors. You need to fix everything focus, exposure, colour balance. If you bounce a flash to fill a darker area, it must remain exactly the same for each shot. use the camera in the portrait orientation and preferably use a Pan bracket set at the "Nodal point" where the image does not move when the camera is rotated. I use PTAssembler for stitching But PTGui is more popular. Photoshop gives little choice of projections and little scope for adjustments. You can also fuse multiple exposures in a program like Tufuse to control the inevitable wide brightness range.

In these shots I have done both and used recti-perspective projection to preserve the radial straight lines. ( I have shown these before)






 
The liked what you did, so why are you spending so much time worrying about how you can change it?

Go look at some lifestyle websites and magazines, it's not about getting everything into the frame and having to go super-wide, it's all about making the interior look good.

You might want to start with:
You could get a Pinterest board set-up and ask the property owners to build up a scrap-book of the style of shot they like. You might be surprised. People that aren't photographers frequently like styles of photography that get poo-pooed on forums like TP (where it's too easy to be gazing at our own colons when discussing what we think makes a good photograph).
 
Lyope said:
TBH, it's not the camera lens combination you want to worry about so much. The 10-20 sounds ideal and the 450d will be quite adequate.

Instead, have a think about how you're going to *light* your rooms. Ideally, you'll want to be working with a couple of off-camera lights so you can set up a pleasing balance of daylight through the windows and a well lit interior. That said, you can get away with just one if you're clever. By locking your camera down on a tripod, there are some really cool techniques you can do with multiple exposures and masking, so that you can shoot an entire room with just one flash, walking it round and illuminating different parts of the scene. Think about your white balance and how you can gel your flash(es) to make things look warm and inviting, or cool and modern, depending on the decor and the time of day.

Good luck!
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Thanks Charlotte. Will bear that in mind. I am hoping natutral light for the most part but have a couple of speedlights if needed.

Gaz
Terrywoodenpic said:
I often take pans indoors. You need to fix everything focus, exposure, colour balance. If you bounce a flash to fill a darker area, it must remain exactly the same for each shot. use the camera in the portrait orientation and preferably use a Pan bracket set at the "Nodal point" where the image does not move when the camera is rotated. I use PTAssembler for stitching But PTGui is more popular. Photoshop gives little choice of projections and little scope for adjustments. You can also fuse multiple exposures in a program like Tufuse to control the inevitable wide brightness range.
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Thanks for the reply. Don't mind trying the pano route but can't see me buying one of those bracket things at this point maybe in the future. Very interesting though and your photos look bob on.

Gaz

Alastair said:
The liked what you did, so why are you spending so much time worrying about how you can change it?
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Your correct Alastair I was born with low self confidence no matter how many people tell me I can take a descent photo I still self doubt. I am impressed with your straight talking way though and the sites you linked to are probably whats required.Well they make me feel good looking at the images :-)

Thanks again

Gaz
 
Gaz - the cure for low self-esteem in photography is to print lots of your images, stick 'em on the fridge door* or put up a corkboard. Photos always look better as a print in your hand than as an image on the screen. I've bought a refurbished Selphy printer this year, just so I can print out a couple of 6x4s when I feel the need.


*the best loved images in the world are generaly to be found stuck to fridge doors
 
Alastair said:
Gaz - the cure for low self-esteem in photography is to print lots of your images, stick 'em on the fridge door* or put up a corkboard. Photos always look better as a print in your hand than as an image on the screen. I've bought a refurbished Selphy printer this year, just so I can print out a couple of 6x4s when I feel the need.


*the best loved images in the world are generaly to be found stuck to fridge doors
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Funny you should say that up until last August I never had anything printed but have started to have some printed and blue tacked to the Kitchen wall and changed every so often. *Your last comment is spot on :-)

Gaz
 
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