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Shooting interiors
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Could I ask for a bit of advice please.
I have been asked to shoot interior rooms and its a favour for a neighbour which is fine and its nice to be asked. However, am wondering what lens can I use. I have a wide angle 17-40 and then the other lens I would have would be a nifty 50 and a 24-70 and I use a 5DMII. This is something I’ve not done before but its good to get a challenge.
The rooms I’ve been told have a lot of natural light which is good and I have been doing a bit of research online about lighting and using flash etc
But just wondering what would be the best lens to use? and of course any tips and advise greatly appreciated.
I think the 17-40, with perhaps something longer for detail shots.
The trick will be balancing the level and colour of the light you will be working with, as it will likely be a combination of indoor, outdoor, and potentially flash lighting. If you can control when you can shoot, you should be able to tame the outdoor lighting a lot more easily, as well of course as being able to gel any of your flashes also if needed.
I would try keep it as simple as possible, reducing the number of variables, especially lighting variables you have to juggle. Bracketed exposures will help also, especially if there is no other way to pull together all the elements in a shot other than by stacking exposures in post processing.
There’s some beautiful interior images I’ve seen here, so perhaps you might seek those out here, or others might chime in here with advice.
The last thing I would personally suggest, is that of a delicate touch. I see a lot of photographers go overboard very easily with interior images, either by extremely wide lenses and exaggerated unrealistic proportions, or equally, by exaggerated processing resulting in images with unrealistic/ implausible lighting ranges.
Whatever you end up electing for, good luck with the shots, and if you can, come back here and show us some of your results :)
Thanks for the reply Damien, not sure if I can show the end result as this venue is for counselling I have to assure confidentiality. From my research ok I know I will have to bracket shots. I must have a look at some of the work here ok. So thanks for all your help it is much appreciated.
That’s cool Helen, often the case with commercial work :)
Bracketing exposure and combining them in editing software should help with high dynamic range images if you can’t lower the dynamic range by shooting at a time more conducive to getting everything with the one exposure. Likewise, white balance bracketing, and combining in software may help a little too, if the spill of the light source is not too great and comfined to an area of the image you can selectively replace with a a properly white balanced portion of another image.
White balancing the most difficult to correct light source is probably the way to go, then dealing with the rest accordingly. Of course you will probably make your life much easier if you can simply close the curtains/ block off the light from a window entirely :) Detail shots of interiors should be much less problematic.
Of course all these issues pertaining to white and colour balance would be moot, if you could simply shoot in black and white, but I imagine that’s not a preferrred option here :)
Good luck with the shoot.
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