Do you have access to good technical books in Shenzhen?
Interior and Architectural photography is a very specific technical discipline. Look for good books covering the subject. Equipment at this point is the least of your worries, but will be a topic that would require careful thought later on.
Or you could do what some geniuses here advocate and read less, understand even lesser, shoot blindly and delete like crazy. When in doubt, just keep on buying newer and better 'Magic Bullet' equipment. :bsmilie:
depends how big the room/property is. Most apartments the PnS cameras are okay but for the larger executive apartments and so on, may find yourself needing a dslr with wide angle lens and around 2 flashes plus some skill in touching up photos.I am keen on interior design photography and would welcome any advise, recommendations from you, starting with equipment needed, lenses, tripods, lightings etc. Any tips would also be most welcome.
I am keen on interior design photography and would welcome any advise, recommendations from you, starting with equipment needed, lenses, tripods, lightings etc. Any tips would also be most welcome.
depends how big the room/property is. Most apartments the PnS cameras are okay but for the larger executive apartments and so on, may find yourself needing a dslr with wide angle lens and around 2 flashes plus some skill in touching up photos.
Contrary to other recommendations, I find that I seldom reach out to my TS-E lenses for interior work, especially so for single volume spaces. If I do use the TS-E lenses, its usually without any movement involved.
I would go for wide angle zooms like the 16-35 or 14-24 and most recently, the TS-E 17. Until this lens came about, I just find that the TS-E lenses are actually not wide enough for a lot of interior applications.
I work with commercial photographers on a very frequent basis for our projects, none of them own TS-E... only one who only shoots a lot of product shots and that is not even 17/24mm but 90mm. All of them gets the job done. TS-E is a specialized lens, if you don't maximize its usage or don't see yourself using it very often, you'll end up wandering around looking for things can you can use your TS-E to shoot with. Generally, a wide angle lens should suffice even if you encounter a high ceilings, of course TS-E is a better option, but achievable with your UWA anyways... I believe one should make use of whatever he/she has, from there you'll gain better understanding in knowing what exactly your current lenses can/cannot do. Lust for better equipment is always there.compare your work with come experts and then see how you would gane.
Am not sure how exposed you are to photography but try and shoot round your house, void deck or something and see if you find your equipment lacking in anything. Or whether it's limiting you from doing certain things. Cuz technically, interior isn't exactly the hardest genre for photography if shooting with available lights and if you're been shooting (not just interiors) you'd prolly have known what you find lacking.I am keen on interior design photography and would welcome any advise, recommendations from you, starting with equipment needed, lenses, tripods, lightings etc. Any tips would also be most welcome.
Hi Kit
This is insightful. You mentioned you rarely utilized your Canon TS-E lenses. Is it primarily because you find them insufficient? If so, then may I know how you overcome distortion and other perspective issues with wide angles lenses then? If I am not mistaken, you would be forced to shoot perpendicular to the ground, thereby limiting your possibilities, right?