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Lighting considerations for interiors

Lighting considerations for interiors

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Lighting considerations for interiors

So you've done your walkthrough. You've gotten the emotional response that informs what kind of photograph you want to create. You've made decisions on things like camera height, composition, lens choices. That leaves lighting. What kinds of choices go into the lighting of an architectural photo. >> I'm really glad you asked about light because it's really my favorite activity. When I'm setting a shot up and I'm going to light the shot. It's really where all the life and the depth in the image comes from is how it's lit. So the basic concerns that I've got is it daylight or is it night. If it's daylight that means we're going to have a daylight source. So a strobe light or a 5500 degree Kelvin light source is going to be necessary to match the window light. Right. So if it's going to be a night shot then I'm going to be lighting with tungsten more than likely. So a 3200 degree Kelvin source. And I really like using Fresnel spotlights, much more so than strobes. Fresnels are much more…

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