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Showroom
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I was asked to photograph a showroom in order to have some
photos for a promotional DVD that i am creating. Not my usual
kinda shoot (motorbike racing) but i done it anyway for the
challenge (and the DVD).All photo taken on a Nikon D200 with Nikon 18-35mm.
All photos were exposed for the ambient light (less one stop),
and then fill flash from the Nikon SB800 set at one stop under.Shooting conditions were cramped, tricky wielding a big tripod around!
Nice job!
Not quite sure why you were using a tripod though… What lens were you using??
Only areas I see for improvememt would be distorting the images, so verticals are vertical (really noticeable on these shots with so many vertical lines in the rooms), and replacing the bulb above the cooker in the shot with the red oven (looks like there should be 2 lights, but only one is lit).
Other than those issues, great job!!
Tim
Indeed… you can really tell you took these at 18mm… otherwise, they are quite nice looking shots. Particularly the first two. Something about the lighting in the last one puts me off though.
The flowers are a bit in the way in the first. I keep wanting to move them.
Really nicely exposed but the verticals really mess me up when looking at them.
as everyone says the verticals need sorting
in picture 1
there is a picture in a frame on the wall still in its wrapping, maybe unwrap it??but also, I dont know how much you have done with DVD, but those images are gonna not look anything like they do now if your putting them onto dvd video
they will strobe etc, also the red needs toning back a bit for video
if its a DVD rom that these are being used for then if a different story
Well done, nice clean shots.
As for tripods, see if you can get your hands on (borrow/hire/etc) a Benbo. Highly recommended for all and any cramped or awkward spaces.
Verticals do my head in when shooting interiors – does anyone have any tips/advice as to how to improve or compose shots for this type of subject?? What should actually be ‘straight’ or ‘vertical’? I’d have much the same kit, i.e. digital SLR with a wide prime or zoom lens. Defo not a shift lens. What would be the ‘best’ way to photograph something like this in respsect of these awkward angles??
Get your centre verticals right. Also be sure the camera is mounted horizontally. Anything after that is barrel distoration. You can correct that easily and quicky enough with a transform in PS.
I think a wider angle might have helped-
some of the cornices have been cut off-The floral arrangement is taking up too much space,
as is the wall hanging-the sample boards could have been moved-
and there’s an open door going out of frameShots like this are maybe 90% moving things
so that nothing could be seen to be in the wrong place.
Although this is quite a busy interior anyway.
Don’t be afraid to get rid of things-The verticals and distortion definitely need to be sorted out,
easily done inPS.Good to see some interiors going up-
j
earthairfire wrote:
Nice job!
Not quite sure why you were using a tripod though… What lens were you using??
Tripod was needed because of the long shutter speeds.
Nikon 18-35mmearthairfire wrote:
Only areas I see for improvememt would be distorting the images
This lense is very prone to that, its only about ?300 quid,
it is my intention sometime in the future to replace it with
Nikons 17-55 VR although the 12-24mm could be useful.p&s wrote:
The flowers are a bit in the way in the first. I keep wanting to move them.
Thats where we differ, I deliberately included the flowers in the shot ha ha
stasber wrote:
As for tripods, see if you can get your hands on (borrow/hire/etc) a Benbo. Highly recommended for all and any cramped or awkward spaces.
Thanks for the advice, but my normal shooting does not require a tripod, in fact i had to borrow one for this particular shoot as i dont own one myself.
jb7 wrote:
I think a wider angle might have helped-
some of the cornices have been cut off-The lense used was the 18-35, the widest i own.
jb7 wrote:
the sample boards could have been moved-
and there’s an open door going out of frameShots like this are maybe 90% moving things
so that nothing could be seen to be in the wrong place.We did move a few things, but as the pics were only for an
inhouse dvd (not being sent to customers) we felt it wasnt worth
moving too many things in the search of perfection.
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