Hello Vic I think the use of a 24 mm is a good choise. Kodak Ultra 400 is probably fine. Make sure to get nice objects in the foreground - a bowl of fruit, a nice lamp or chair, a piece of art etc. This way it's not just the walls and windows you photograph. Use a tripod and indirect flash(es). Dont forget to compensate for the ligt comming in through the windows (+ correction). The best time of day might very well be the twilight-hour (the hour right after sunset) to get both natural light form outside and artificial light from the lamps etc. inside. Good luck!
Jens Hello, 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: - using my widest-angle lens (24mm Super-multi-coated-takumar) to get as much as possible on the picture - the lens is not very fast, but has a good depth of field, even wide open... - ISO400 color film (no AGFA, got bad experience with that on granularity; I have some roles of Kodak Ultra, is that any better?) - camera would be Spotmatic F or Super A (with mount adaptor)... I only bought the Super A very recently, and I noticed the meter is off, at least compared to the Spotmatic F; the first roll on the Super A is still being developed, so I'll need te results to 'trust' it's meter - using a tripod to take advantage of available light as much as possible - compensate exposure to eliminate effect of visible windows on the light meter - view horizontally, not to distort perspective Do you think these are good guidelines to produce a quality set of pictures? What do you think about using flash? My only experience in flash photography is direct flash and reading aperture setting from a label on the flash, based on ISO and distance... I don't really think this will work out for interior photography, especially since I'll be using very wide angle and target object distance typically covers a wide range. I assume that indirect flashlight may help, but I have no TTL-flash-metering, so no clue what exposure settings to use (yes, I have the Super A, but as far as I understand, It'll only do TTL with a dedicated Pentax flash, like the AF280T + an A-SMC lens). Could I just meter and expose for available light, flash indirectly and compensate for that with two stops (just a guess), to have at least some fill-in flash? Any suggestions are welcome. Once it's done, I'll publish some of the pictures. Groeten, Vic Jens Bladt Arkitekt MAA http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 15. juli 2005 07:58 Til: [email protected] Emne: Checking out I'm off for the Greek islands. I'll be back in a couple of weeks... Have a nice summer! Regards Jens
