Anyone shoot interiors for a living?

[Bujo]

I am doing some research on lighiting of interiors of buildings and homes and I'm looking for some advice. Do we have anyone doing this?

[Linda G]

Good question, Bujo. I am interested also, looking for a homevisit type of photography to showcase the interiors of some of those wonderful homes.

You might say, a new kind of environmental photography!

Haha!! OOh, let me check out a useful smiley for here!

:getdown:

[easternherp]

I u sed to shoot interiors with film cameras and flash. Nowadays with digital it can sometimes be better to use natural lighting to show off the effect of the lighting as the designer wanted. Usually there will be mixed lighting so you can take multiple exposures with different colour settings and get an even colour like the eye sees rather than green from fluorescents and yellow from tungsten.

[Bujo]

I've found that to be true also. I'm wondering about using fill lights and the Morris lights that plug into lamps and such. Any ideas?

[easternherp]

I don't think that there is a right or wrong way to shoot interiors. As long as you get the result you and the client were looking for you are ok, and with digital you can see the results straight away.
Do some tests in the home.
One good idea is to have a very sturdy tripod as there will be long exposures.

[Johnelle]

like easternherp I used to do a lot of interiors '' on the road ' and used MF or 5x4 combined with multiple flash units with slaves. They can be used in multiples to up the output whilst still using the odd one or 2 strategically placed to lift and light and dont forget you can place coloured gels over to add colour and tone to different areas

I had up to a dozen Vivitar 283s for location style photography and in my experience they are very underated, in fact I still have 6 or 7 in my case - just wish I had something to use them on. :)

I must confess the opportunity to shoot in this way with digital is so easy compared to shooting film at distances from your base and having to ensure you have the shot in the bag before you wind up the trip

good shootin

JohnL

[NZDoug]

Multiple exposures are common in the digital age.
One for the windows and one for inside and layer them together.
Generally tungsten lighting creates a pleasing effect on daylight colour balance so thats no problem.
I buy 30 magenta sheets 1 meter wide by any length and dismantle the ceiling lights and custom cut filters to fit inside the fixtures if the budget warrants it.
You can rent (hire) portable flourescent light boxes from film equip. hire places
and you can put any type of flouescent balance lights in them.
Video guys use these a lot.
Cant remember the name, Ive hired them before.
:undecided

[NZDoug]

Its Kinoflo loghts.
Great for prople flourescent or daylight mix.
http://www.kinoflo.com/site_map/onboard_ballasts/001.html :righton:

[Bujo]

Good words from everyone. I'm still looking for more. I've started my web search, but if you run across anything let me know.

[Camarochas]

Check soem of the architechural or other magazines that show home interiors and look for the lighting patterns. That will give you some good ideas on light placement.

Charlie