Hi all,
I've been trying my hand at learning how to shoot some real estate type shots. I started with my kitchen which poses some challenges, especially for a first timer.
It is long and somewhat narrow.
I shot this with my new canon 11-24 lens.
I took a normal exposure as a base image, and my lights in this kitchen, ALL of them the ambient ones are 2700K, I know this as that I bought all the same bulbs as that I do a cooking video here, CWI: Cooking While Intoxicated you youtube and know how important it is to not have mixed lighting on video. HARD to correct there.
Anyway...I was trying the technique where you take multiple shots, and use a flash in them to highlight things, to mask in with photoshop.
Many of my flash were too bright...I'm still getting used to it. But I did try to get the color close..and put a full CTO on the 600EX-RT flash I handheld. I've done a DIY cam ranger thing with an android tablet, DSLRRanger and a TP-LINK TP-MR3040 unit I flashed the firmware on.
So, I have the equipment, and I'm getting decent with PS...but I'm still missing a lot here.
I'm posting the before and after of what I've tried so far. But I'm at a loss, on where to set my flashes to try to get rid of some of the horrible shadows...and I'm not sure..what shadows do you want to keep and which to try to eliminate? Do you get rid of the floor ones under the cabinets...shadows off the tile floor? Do I need to brighten the upper part of the wall above the cabinets? I tried to use the flash in places up there, but it just didn't come out and I couldn't figure how to get it to be smooth looking, everything I tried to put in up there looked blotchy..even with soft brushes and molasses slow flow on the brush....
Another problem area..the shadowed area behind the stovetop burners to the left of the oven...I tried flash aimed at that, but it just blew out and was too hot spot from the flash. Do I need to have an umbrella on the hand held flash to help with this?
Anyway, I'm really wanting to learn, but whiles there YouTube videos aplenty with lightly touching this subject, and most just the photoshop side of things, there's little I can find on how they actually use the flashes to augment the scene, especially on the interior....and difficult rooms and how to get the mixed light to match up...etc. And how low do you set the flashes, etc? I think I had 1/8 power and it was blowing things out, but when I did like 1/16th power...it didn't seem to make much a difference at all...
So, if ya'll could comment./critique, and maybe even copy the images and notate where to do things and where a flash might go, etc...I'd VERY much appreciate the education.
If you know good links or books on this, I'd really like to know....
Thanks in advance!!
cayenne
I've been trying my hand at learning how to shoot some real estate type shots. I started with my kitchen which poses some challenges, especially for a first timer.
It is long and somewhat narrow.
I shot this with my new canon 11-24 lens.
I took a normal exposure as a base image, and my lights in this kitchen, ALL of them the ambient ones are 2700K, I know this as that I bought all the same bulbs as that I do a cooking video here, CWI: Cooking While Intoxicated you youtube and know how important it is to not have mixed lighting on video. HARD to correct there.
Anyway...I was trying the technique where you take multiple shots, and use a flash in them to highlight things, to mask in with photoshop.
Many of my flash were too bright...I'm still getting used to it. But I did try to get the color close..and put a full CTO on the 600EX-RT flash I handheld. I've done a DIY cam ranger thing with an android tablet, DSLRRanger and a TP-LINK TP-MR3040 unit I flashed the firmware on.
So, I have the equipment, and I'm getting decent with PS...but I'm still missing a lot here.
I'm posting the before and after of what I've tried so far. But I'm at a loss, on where to set my flashes to try to get rid of some of the horrible shadows...and I'm not sure..what shadows do you want to keep and which to try to eliminate? Do you get rid of the floor ones under the cabinets...shadows off the tile floor? Do I need to brighten the upper part of the wall above the cabinets? I tried to use the flash in places up there, but it just didn't come out and I couldn't figure how to get it to be smooth looking, everything I tried to put in up there looked blotchy..even with soft brushes and molasses slow flow on the brush....
Another problem area..the shadowed area behind the stovetop burners to the left of the oven...I tried flash aimed at that, but it just blew out and was too hot spot from the flash. Do I need to have an umbrella on the hand held flash to help with this?
Anyway, I'm really wanting to learn, but whiles there YouTube videos aplenty with lightly touching this subject, and most just the photoshop side of things, there's little I can find on how they actually use the flashes to augment the scene, especially on the interior....and difficult rooms and how to get the mixed light to match up...etc. And how low do you set the flashes, etc? I think I had 1/8 power and it was blowing things out, but when I did like 1/16th power...it didn't seem to make much a difference at all...
So, if ya'll could comment./critique, and maybe even copy the images and notate where to do things and where a flash might go, etc...I'd VERY much appreciate the education.
If you know good links or books on this, I'd really like to know....
Thanks in advance!!
cayenne