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Taking Property Photos - Advice Please?
Hi there,
I'm looking into property photography to offer it alongside my other services to estate agents. Can anyone give me some tips?
I'm using an Olympus E410 with FL-36R flasgun and 14-42mm Zuiko lens sat on a tripod.
Really it's the finer things I need help with like ascertaining what white balance to use, and wether to gun for aperture or shutter prioroty modes and how to position the flash for best lighting, when to use bounce and when not to etc.
Any help would be greatly received! I've thumbed through various magazines but they all seem to follow the route of the seasoned pro rather than novice.
Thanks in advance!
Steve
Additional: I'musing RAW format and Photshop Elements 6 for the image editing.
2 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
What you need to do is experiment. I've done some real estate photography, and I've found the best way to do it is by making sure the sun is behind you. This means that you have to do certain houses at certain times of the day. On the inside, the white balance depends on the color of the walls. I try to position the camera to get the most features of the room. Sometimes this means taking the picture from the doorway, and sometimes it means cramming yourself into a corner.
- 1 decade ago
The white balance is to balance the color temp in the room this is a very simple chart to tell you temp of light in a room.
http://www.mediacollege.com/lighting/colour/colour...
When available always use natural light, your flash is balanced at 5500k to be the same as the sun, so you will be using it as a fill light.
When using a flash especially in a room bounce the light off the ceiling it will soften the light and spread it around the room evenly.
When using a flash you camera has a sync speed so you will have to use aperture priority other wise the camera and flash won’t work together. Usually it is 1/60 or 1/125.
If you are shooting your images RAW and editing them after, the lighting can be fixed in Lightroom or Photoshop. if you are shooting JPGS what you get is what you have.
good luck and make the rooms look way bigger then they actually are!
