Comments on: Stunning Interior Images Without Lighting Equipment

By: mark bolton

mark bolton — Mon, 30 May 2011 19:40:12 +0000

unreal looking… my clients would just laugh! I use minimal lighting and occasionally a bit of LR/enfuse. I generally omly use 3 exposures, about a stop apart. Thats about right… any more than 5 images takes too long on the computer!

By: Vrinda

Vrinda — Sun, 22 May 2011 13:22:51 +0000

David,
I am an absolute beginner. I’m using Efex for my HDR, I shoot in RAW and use Lightroom to develop. The results are underwhelming and I’m getting increasingly discouraged. What I find is that the effects presets are garish, the colors grey and the photo is overall grainy – windows blown and room dark. Can you help a beginner find their way to better interior real estate photography.

By: David Eichler

David Eichler — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:11:41 +0000

Mark, your work is very nice. It is at a level that is well above typical real estate photography; and, for those images that rely on daylight for part or all of the ambient lighting, I would bet that you have the luxury and budget to wait for those times when the daylight is most favorable. This is not the case for most real estate photography, so HDR/tonemapping can be helpful when not using supplementary lighting (because of HDR’s ability to deal with very high dynamic ranges that exposure fusion or Photoshop layering/masking may not be able to handle) and having to shoot the job as soon as possible, often without much choice about the time of day or the quality of the daylight. That said, in my experience, it is possible to avoid halos, muddiness and garish colors, etc., with HDR/tonemapping.

By: Morten Andersen

Morten Andersen — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:51:33 +0000

# Mark Henninger
Hi Mark.
I really like your images.
May I ask how much time you sped processing your bracketed shots to achieve an end result like those in your gallery?

Regards
Morten

By: Mark Henninger

Mark Henninger — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 13:30:39 +0000

Just my two cents – the halos in those pics are fairly noticeable in some images. I’ve been using exposure fusion and manual blending for years, avoiding halos all the while. Take a look at my interiors, I use no artificial lighting. http://www.imagicdigital.com/portfolios.php?group=0

By: Gary L

Gary L — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:29:35 +0000

I have been reading a lot of this website today and will continue to as I’m interested in producing HDR images for property. I have found this article to be very interesting and I just had a look at the flash HDR portfolio of this outfit. I think it does look impressive to offer clients this sort of thing, maybe not so much seasoned photographers.

By: Karen Rice

Karen Rice — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:12:16 +0000

I’m not a professional photographer; just a dabbler when it comes to this stuff. But I will comment that while this style is eye catching, it has a surreal quality that I find unsettling. Some of the examples linked are nice and some of them have a “fake” look that makes one think they are looking at a cold museum display rather than a real home. I think of the effect seen in the movie Edward Scissorhands – unreal and even slightly eerie.

By: Angelique

Angelique — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:47:21 +0000

I’m new to real estate photography – I mostly shoot weddings and portraits, but I’m looking to add RE photograph to have better year-round income. I am shooting some vacation rental pix for an friend next weekend, and this website has provided me with a ton of useful info, from copyright to property release to contracts to HDR. Thanks.

The biggest reason I’ve decided to comment is that it appears no matter what form of photography people are practicing and sharing on forums/blogs, we are all very opinionated and critical of our own and others work…and that applies to myself as well. I like the cleanness and sharpness of the original iflyer South Seattle images, yes there are artifacts, and overprocessed-quality, and too bright here, too dark there…but I can totally see that most clients would love them…and THAT is what’s important in the end. 99% of clients wouldn’t notice all the flaws in the images, because they will have an emotional response to it, especially if it is their own home. A recent cover of Homes & Land looks, in my opinion, way too dark, with fluorescent red glow in the interior of the shot, and the scenery through the window has that surreal look. But the editor or art director or whoever apparently liked it.

Yes, this style is a niche, a trend for the moment…just like reportage/photojournalism and spot colour were big for wedding photography 5 years ago, which has now been replaced by off-camera flash and fashion-style wedding photography. When we are shooting an assignment for someone else, we need to please the client (and it has to be cost-effective)…otherwise, it becomes a personal project and then we can get lost in the details. Just like with wedding photography at the moment, the trend is that stylized look, and when Mrs Smith wants to keep up with the Jones’, she wants what they just had in terms of photography, and she wants HER house to look like all the other homes in BH&G and RE magazines.

By: Narv

Narv — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:55:08 +0000

Vista Estate Imaging–new services!!

By: My First HDR - Real Estate Interior - PhotoCamel - Your Friendly Photo Community

My First HDR - Real Estate Interior - PhotoCamel - Your Friendly Photo Community — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:32:58 +0000

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