Lighting room for architectural shoot

Hi
I'm shooting several rooms for a Architectural shoot and I need several small and very portable lights to light dark spots in the room, especially table tops and beds etc. I don't want to carry heaps of gear. Any suggestions?

Thanks

There are small AC or DC powered strobes available from sources like B&H

http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …C-DC/ci/1239/N/403629775​1

Speedlights? Indoors, you often don't even need radio triggers, just something with an optical slave mode.

I use speedlites. Work great. Takes some planning. Get compact stands so the legs can be tightly configured if necessary.

I've also done shoots without any additional light and used the floating point file capability in Lightroom.

I generally shoot a bracket then find the best exposure for windows and add light as required.

If these are larger rooms in a commercial building then larger lights may be the only solution.

Another option is compositing. Mike Kelley has some good videos floating around, illustrating how he does it outside. Works much the same way inside.

This was with 3 600EX-RTs bounced into the wall. I generally use ETTL and each 600EX-RT is in its own Gr so I can run FEC up or down as required.

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I've had very good luck in many lighting situations using a tripod & 3 exposures (HDR).
Balances window & dark spots very nicely using PS layers & adjustment & masking. And/or use some HDR software. Used just for the exposure dynamic range, not necessarily the Tone Mapping.

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dmward wrote in post #16014566
I use speedlites. Work great. Takes some planning. Get compact stands so the legs can be tightly configured if necessary.

I've also done shoots without any additional light and used the floating point file capability in Lightroom.

I generally shoot a bracket then find the best exposure for windows and add light as required.

If these are larger rooms in a commercial building then larger lights may be the only solution.

Another option is compositing. Mike Kelley has some good videos floating around, illustrating how he does it outside. Works much the same way inside.

This was with 3 600EX-RTs bounced into the wall. I generally use ETTL and each 600EX-RT is in its own Gr so I can run FEC up or down as required.

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Brilliantly done

richardhurst wrote in post #16016800
Brilliantly done

Thanks.

Not an interior but here's one that's a bit more complicated. Kind of same approach Mike used but backwards.