July 7th, 2011
Since I’ve been working on updating my Photography For Real Estate eBook I’ve been thinking about the changes that have been going on in real estate photography lighting the last few years. Back in 2008 I did a poll of what lighting techniques real estate photographers were using. That poll (the 6 poll down on [...]
June 27th, 2011
For those of you that have Scott Hargis’s Lighting Interiors eBook or have been hanging out in the PFRE flickr group for any amount of time, you understand why Nikon SB-80dx manual flashes are THE small flash of choice for real estate photographers so move along, there’s nothing here for you. However, the questions I’ve [...]
March 22nd, 2011
Yesterday I was talking to Sandy Hegyi who shoots real estate on the British Columbia Sunshine Coast. Sandy’s background is 25 years lighting interiors for big budget film and television productions. Sandy was a Chief Lighting Technician and is used to working with 5 assistants, a ten ton truck of lighting gear with 200,000 watts [...]
February 28th, 2011
Today as I was surfing around looking for something completely else I ran across a couple of well done video tutorials on basic small flash gear and jargon. Both are by Paul Duncan. Here they are: Shutter/Flash Synchronization Strobist Preliminaries There is a ton of basic information packed into these little videos. If you are interested [...]
January 5th, 2011
Mike Miriello over at realestatephotographypodcast.com recently interviewed Scott Hargis about his e-book, Lighting Interiors – Techniques for lighting with small flash. Scott talks about the content of the e-book and his philosophy of shooting light and fast with small flashes and about the fact that this ebook covers the fundamentals and theory of flash. Also, about [...]
January 4th, 2011
There are a bunch of folks purchasing the Lighting Interiors e-book by Scott Hargis since it was David Hobby added it to his Strobist Bookshelf. In the book Scott talks about using SLK SVD-20 video tripods as lighting stands. He also mentions that the SLK tripods are not manufactured any more. So I thought it would [...]
October 22nd, 2010
Jamie Flournoy, a San Francisco Bay area Realtor, who purchased Scott Hargis’s Lighting Interiors eBook asked me this morning if she could use her Canon 580EX II with Pocket Wizards like Scott describes in the Figure 2.5 diagram (on pg 18 – click the image to the right for a larger view) that shows how [...]
September 21st, 2010
For the last several days I’ve been talking to Bill Silver, a Realtor in Harwich Port, MA who specializes in Cape Cod vacation properties. Bill does all his own photography and uses some unique and innovative techniques. After the first tour Bill showed me I noticed that his photography had a distinctive look. It took [...]
August 26th, 2010
I’m amazed by the number of people I talk to that are mixing flash with the bracketing shots they are shooting for Exposure Fusion (Blending in Photomatix) and HDR. Plus I’ve gotten a number of questions asking how to to shoot brackets with flash. The first question is why? What’s the point of using flash [...]
May 16th, 2010
I get a lot of questions about resources for learning how to use speedlites. Lighting with small flash is a hugely popular subject. As an example Scott Hargis’s post on Interior lighting with multiple strobes, is the most popular post on this blog. The only page, other than the front page that gets more traffic is [...]
