Probably more effort than you want, but in The Negative Ansel Adams
discusses photographing interiors by painting them with light. Turn off all
the lights and make sure the room is dark. Lock the shutter open, and then
walk through with a bright spot light (I used a 4 D Cell mag light) and
paint the walls. I did this for a class project a few years ago. I also
wrapped the light bulbs in the table lamps with tin foil, leaving just a
small hole in the top and little clearance at the bottom of each, and
flashed them on for a second to create the illusion that they were lighting
the room.. The results were very good - though it took several tries and
each exposure took up to half an hour (it takes time to systematically paint
the interior of a room, including all objects in it.)
Have fun -
- MCC
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vic Mortelmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "pentax epostlijst" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 3:51 PM
Subject: interior photography
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
