Vic Mortelmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >next week, I'm going to make some photo's of a house interior for a >friend. The house is to be sold and the pictures are to be used as >illustration for the sales announcement. Does any of you have experience >with that? > >Some idea's of myself:
<snip - all pretty good ideas so no comment needed> >- view horizontally, not to distort perspective Yes. This is very important. Use a tripod and a bubble level, if possible. It's often useful to set the camera at significantly lower than eye-level, in order to fit everything into the shot without tilting the camera. >Do you think these are good guidelines to produce a quality set of pictures? Use a tripod, stop the lens down and trip the shutter with a cable release and you should be fine. >What do you think about using flash? Very tough to do interiors well with a single flash, due to the inverse-square rule: You get drastically different exposures at different flash-to-subject distances. I'd recommend either multiple flashes (and this only if you have lots of experience balancing the light from such a set-up) or use manual exposure and just use the flash for some fill (TTL flash is most helpful in this situation but that's obviously not an option for you with the Spottie). I'd probably go with ambient light (unless it's really awful) and a tripod and long shutter speeds. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
