Real estate / property photography

[alexthg]

I just came across these sites... Amazing to see how professional real estate photographers do it in the real-world...
Might change the way I light my interior/exterior scene

http://photographyforrealestate.net
http://strobist.blogspot.com

another useful link:
http://www.all-things-photography.co...otography.html

pls post here if you know anymore related links

cheers!

[pixelstudio]

hey man great stuff there! thx for the suggestion

[studioDIM]

If you are shooting towards a window, the trick with the lighting and exposure (if possible) is to illuminate the room correctly whilst retaining the details outside. For example, the wrong settings will "blow out" the windows leaving them white and overexposed when really; you want to include any scenery such as gardens in the shot (see exposure).

If you ARE aiming directly at a window you won't be able to use just natural light. Your meter reading will expose the bright window correctly leaving the rest of the room "underexposed". This is where the studio lights can counterbalance the natural lighting and give a really stunning image.

This should settle all the issues with people pretending to light an interior with sun and sky only, and have both the outdoors and the indoors not blown out without artificial lighting coming into play.

Very nice link, Alex, thankyou.

[timmatron]

Yeah good stuff. Thanks!

[DaForce]

Very handy

[alexthg]

http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobis...57600081467414

interesting to see how he 'lights' the entire room with almost no natural lights. Something i very rarely see on anyone's workflow with vray

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I share space with a photographer - he regularly takes exposures for interior and exterior and combines in Photoshop - reality, who needs it