Comments on: [BTS] The Anatomy of a Luxury Interior Shot

By: 1to10

1to10 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:06:00 +0000

Thank you so much for this informative post, I’m teaching myself how to shoot interiors by trawling the Internet for info and I really appreciate your time to write this post as your the only person I’ve found so far that really gets into this in depth and doesn’t withhold any key info. Thank you so much

By: 1to10

1to10 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:06:00 +0000

Out of curiosity, how did you learn interior photography, and how long have you been shooting for?

By: Mike_Kelley

Mike_Kelley — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:09:00 +0000

Ha, thanks, and I call myself a grammar Nazi. Won’t make that mistake again.

By: Andre Goulet

Andre Goulet — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:27:00 +0000

Great article! This is the type of article that defines Fstoppers for me. Thanks!

By: tyrohne

tyrohne — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:42:00 +0000

without further ‘ado’… not ‘adieu’ which is ‘goodbye’ in French and makes zero sense.

By: Shumie

Shumie — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:31:00 +0000

Mike, thank you very much for the article. I’ve been wondering what goes into interior photography setup…

By: Shumie

Shumie — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:31:00 +0000

Mike, thank you very much for the article. I’ve been wondering what goes into interior photography setup…

By: Grant Kennedy

Grant Kennedy — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:26:00 +0000

i laugh when I see people thinking HDR is nice. You will never beat a manual edit with properly exposed shots. Take a look at even the HDR software companies demo video’s and even their shots are terrible. ha ha ha
this shot the writer has done isnt too bad but could be better. the sky’s not real great outside he could of re-touch that much more carefully, not a real need for all the equipment for this shot in all honesty, but the theatric to charge more is essential. good work mate!

By: Christian Soucy

Christian Soucy — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:14:00 +0000

You’re all confusing HDR with tonemapping. High Dynamic Range can be achieved in two ways, by tonemapping (what we commonly refer to as HDR and can look very bad if not done right) and by layers and masking. You can mask and blend multiple exposures and make it look very good. To simply say lump these two methods of achieving High Dynamic Range is wrong. They are different approaches yielding completely different looks.

By: Mike_Kelley

Mike_Kelley — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:53:00 +0000

Except for the fact that you’d have to wait until twilight to have any of the interior lights register at all.

HDR would still yield a muddy mess here. I will bet my career on it. Also do remember that I layered in an ambient light layer, hence the golden light throughout the scene, which was cast by the light fixtures in the home, not my strobe lighting.