A thread for real estate, architectural, and interior design photography

virsago_mk2 wrote in post #16670431
Just my 2 cents based on my experience:

1. If you have the resources, bring your own set of light bulbs & change the ones conflicting the colour balance in the room.
Normally for a paid work I always visited the venue for an inspection prior, then going for a proper photoshoot couple of days later. That way you can analyse & prepare on what area that needs more attention, including the lightbulb types, light sources & placement of the furniture.

2. Heavily Post-process the colour temps in Photoshop or Lightroom. For example, mask then desaturate & paint the colour on the particular area with conflicting colour balance. This is a PITA to work on, you need to be very careful & very proficient with mask & brush tool in Photoshop.

adding to what Brian said, a third option would be to use another source of light for your images (ie - off camera flashes or strobes) so you don't have to rely on the existing bulbs in the room.

Ok folks, I have a question. Here's the backstory: I recently got a 6d and paired it with the Tokina 17-35 for my real estate/architectural photos. I was happy with the lens until my hubs suggested I get the Tokina 16-28 since the IQ was better and it was 2.8. So I did. Well, I did a shoot yesterday and man, the flare! I spent a ton of extra time cloning that crap out, and I swear I never had that problem with the 17-35 or the 11-16 I had on my 50d. I mean, I had flare sometimes, but it's insane from this lens. Could it be becasue the curved front element is exposed and the hood is too short? Its driving me so crazy I think I might go back to the 17-35. Thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

First time doing a Real Estate exterior....

annietex wrote in post #16676157
Ok folks, I have a question. Here's the backstory: I recently got a 6d and paired it with the Tokina 17-35 for my real estate/architectural photos. I was happy with the lens until my hubs suggested I get the Tokina 16-28 since the IQ was better and it was 2.8. So I did. Well, I did a shoot yesterday and man, the flare! I spent a ton of extra time cloning that crap out, and I swear I never had that problem with the 17-35 or the 11-16 I had on my 50d. I mean, I had flare sometimes, but it's insane from this lens. Could it be becasue the curved front element is exposed and the hood is too short? Its driving me so crazy I think I might go back to the 17-35. Thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

Don't listen to your husband

Most of the times shooting arch/interior shots, I set lens aperture between 8 and 11 and use the tripod so 2.8 max aperture is not really an issue. If you're shooting handheld in low light then it would be a factor but if you mount your camera on a tripod, then stick with the 17-35 that you're comfortable with.

brianodom wrote in post #16677350
First time doing a Real Estate exterior....

Not that you asked for C&C... so please don't take offense to the following:
1. rotate the photo so that the horizontal of the three-windowed volume in the center is level; currently, the lines slope down to the right.
2. if you have access into the house, turn on lights in the rooms that have windows that appear in your shot; illuminated space and windows will give warmth and welcome in the dusk shot whereas dark windows give negative impression such as foreclosure and haunting.
3. not sure what color the lawn turn during the winter where you live but would be nice to see some sort of color.

Nice first try!


Feel free to take exception to the following:
Liverpool 5 Arsenal 1

That's very cool!

The WB and comp work well with the snow imo - well done

Mu Eugene wrote in post #16677568
Not that you asked for C&C... so please don't take offense to the following:
1. rotate the photo so that the horizontal of the three-windowed volume in the center is level; currently, the lines slope down to the right.
2. if you have access into the house, turn on lights in the rooms that have windows that appear in your shot; illuminated space and windows will give warmth and welcome in the dusk shot whereas dark windows give negative impression such as foreclosure and haunting.
3. not sure what color the lawn turn during the winter where you live but would be nice to see some sort of color.

Nice first try!

Feel free to take exception to the following:
Liverpool 5 Arsenal 1

1. Thanks and no worries at all! Thanks for pointing the rotation out
2. I started to actually to do that!
3. Down here in the south it varies more of a goldish brown in certain areas.

Bro that liverpool game was rough..LOL!!! Man talk about wipeout

brianodom wrote in post #16677350
First time doing a Real Estate exterior....

Great job, especially for first time. I would give it a bit more saturation and contrast but that's just my taste. I just noticed that you do not have image editing on after I made some edits to the image using Eugene's suggestions and mine. May I post??

Hinson wrote in post #16678246
Great job, especially for first time. I would give it a bit more saturation and contrast but that's just my taste. I just noticed that you do not have image editing on after I made some edits to the image using Eugene's suggestions and mine. May I post??

Go for it (it's the only way I'll learn

Here's what I came up with. Looking at it now, I could have done a wee bit of desaturation also.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …30632959@N02/12​436972414/

Hinson wrote in post #16678800
Here's what I came up with. Looking at it now, I could have done a wee bit of desaturation also.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …30632959@N02/12​436972414/
house by G. Hinson White, on Flickr

THANKS SOOOO MUCH THAT LOOKS GREAT!

Hinson wrote in post #16678800
Here's what I came up with. Looking at it now, I could have done a wee bit of desaturation also.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …30632959@N02/12​436972414/
house by G. Hinson White, on Flickr

Could you explain what you did? Would love to learn.

slookx24 wrote in post #16683893
Could you explain what you did? Would love to learn.

Well, as best I can remember.
Step one;

1. Opened the image in photoshop
2. view/show/guides and pulled horizontal guides to mark roof/window lines
3. edit/free transform rotated image to get building straight
4. edit/free transform/distort pulled upper right corner out to right to straighten the side of the building a bit.
Once satisfied with lines of the building, saved

Step two;

5. copied the copyright/logo
6. cropped image
7. pasted logo
8. created layer mask for logo and brushed out sky to blend in.
9. merged logo with image and saved

Step three

10. Filter/NIK Silver Efex
11. increased structure (detail)
12. merged Efex layer with image and changed mode to luminosity
saved

Step 4
13. Created new blank layer on top
13. change foreground color to green (chose one that looked most like grass)
14. with blank layer active, paint the grass areas green
15. add hue/saturation layer and linked with the layer I just painted green.
16. changed the hue to something more resembling winter grass.
17. dropped the opacity of the grass so that it looked more natural
18. merged all layers

saved and uploaded.

Now that's from memory and at my age, I don't place any bets on my memory
Also note that 13, 16, and 17 are very subjective. You need to just play with those till your image looks right.

Hope this helps

Hinson