bayareaphoto
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I am new to the forum. Looks like you have a great group here!
My question is about lighting hotel rooms for the hotel's website. I am torn between doing a single exposure and trying to get my lighting right in one shot (ambient, tungsten, and flash all mixed), or trying to light the room separately and do multiple exposures and mask them later.
My original plan was to take the image at around 1/60th of a second, somewhere between f11-f16 and expose for the light coming in the window. Then use 5-6 speedlights and strobes in various parts of the room to highlight certain areas. I was planning on removing all the flourescent lights out of the lamps and replace them with AC Slave strobes that can screw in the household sockets. Never have used those AC Slaves though before so not sure of the results.
Doing test shots with the 16-35mm lens on a 5D Mark II revealed too much distortion of straight lines so I will rent either the 17mm Tilt shift or the 24mm tilt shift for the final images.
I guess my other options are to light with hot lights so what I see is what I get or to try to do different exposures and do HDR, or shoot different exposures and mask later so I don't have to worry about trying to hide all my artificial light sources. This sounds like a lot of post work though and I have not done this type of editing as of yet other than basic HDR with Photomatix.
Any advice is appreciated on what would be the simplest solution with best results?
My question is about lighting hotel rooms for the hotel's website. I am torn between doing a single exposure and trying to get my lighting right in one shot (ambient, tungsten, and flash all mixed), or trying to light the room separately and do multiple exposures and mask them later.
My original plan was to take the image at around 1/60th of a second, somewhere between f11-f16 and expose for the light coming in the window. Then use 5-6 speedlights and strobes in various parts of the room to highlight certain areas. I was planning on removing all the flourescent lights out of the lamps and replace them with AC Slave strobes that can screw in the household sockets. Never have used those AC Slaves though before so not sure of the results.
Doing test shots with the 16-35mm lens on a 5D Mark II revealed too much distortion of straight lines so I will rent either the 17mm Tilt shift or the 24mm tilt shift for the final images.
I guess my other options are to light with hot lights so what I see is what I get or to try to do different exposures and do HDR, or shoot different exposures and mask later so I don't have to worry about trying to hide all my artificial light sources. This sounds like a lot of post work though and I have not done this type of editing as of yet other than basic HDR with Photomatix.
Any advice is appreciated on what would be the simplest solution with best results?