Got my first paid shoot!

Ok so finnally landed my first "job"...went with my gear and did the best i could....


what you guys think of my first few pics , I took a total of about 1500 pics of this hotel over 3 days and I need to make an album for marketing etc.....here are pics of one of the suites.....all natural lighting.

The rooms look really nice and would probably benefit from a wider angle lens. I think you did a good job overall. 3,4, and 5 look like they need to be straightened.

ye my lenses were limited to :

18-55

50mm 1.8

im really working on a budget here...once i get paid ill beable to upgrade to all nice stuff

Great work. The natural light really gives the room some depth in a couple of the photos. I am sure they will be very happy with your work. One suggestion, there is a dust spot in the upper third of the wall in the first picture, be sure to clean those up before you ship them off.

alot of times you pick up the refresh rate on a tv so i tend to turn it off or shoot on the appropriate shutter speed for tv's.

yep....in future turn off tvs!!!

live and learn!

and that damn dust spot caused me hours of editing! omg dumb dust spot!!

They should be very happy with these. Congrats!

The first one I would clone out that thing on the bottom right and the other objects on the top right. Then the straightening of the ones listed. Congrats on your first job!

I like them and think you did an over all great job. Im just wondering if your shoot would have benefited a bit from a wider lens.. When looking at these, i wonder if the photos would have convinced me to stay at this hotel, and the answer is yes. Good job!

great job! congrats on your first job!

Nice job, I have always found it difficult to get the right composition in tight quarter like that. It looks great.

wow thanks guys , you'v all given me a much needed confidence boost!

Great job with limited gear, as other has said, a wider lens would have been good here:

1.I think this is the best of them, but some things to consider, I would lower the camera to get some moore room in front of the bed, turn on the lights on the nightstands, clone out or move the green thing down on the right and the pink thing on the right side. same goes for the dark thing sticking in the picture above the pink. I would clone it out or move to get a better angle where it gives more room between the light and this thing.

2.Light the candle, and give it a backlight to stand out from the black background. And I would have turned the bottle/candle so the logo was in the same direction.

3. Wider angle, open the blinds to get more light on the cabinets. Remove the white thing sticking out on the right side between the shower and the cabinets.

4.I would change the angle to get less blinds, and get the hole towelrack.

5. Again turn on the lights on the nightstand, turn off tv, light the fireplace, overexpose the windowlight so you cant see the "view", And I understand that you are looking for the "cosy" feel, but I still think the bedsheets could be a bit colder/more white. And I would try hard to get the hole tv/fireplace in the scene.

6. Watch the wall on the left, keep the camera level to keep the walls straight. And I would like some more room on the right side of the towels.

Recommend you to follow this thread, I have learned alot from lurking this thread, specially from mikekelley and TGrundvig :
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=902973

Lots of glare and unneeded reflections in the stonework going on...need to keep an eye out for these.

porky101 wrote in post #12285106
and that damn dust spot caused me hours of editing! omg dumb dust spot!!

Fyi, most cameras have a dust delete feature. Just take a photo of a white (or gray card might work?) sheet of paper under the dust delete function and run it through the provided software. Reduces hours of editing into a few minutes of batch processing!

As already mentioned, be extremely wary of your edges/corners. One of the things i love most about my 7D is having a 100% viewfinder. No more guessing what's going to be in the shot/wasting time cropping