A day at IKEA (testing the DA15 ltd)

Was burning a lot of money at IKEA recently (updating the kids furnitures). Took the oportunity to test the DA15 ltd a bit. Street shooting without streets?

High ISO, turned BW in lightroom.


Tired and boored 6 years old daughter.




"Oh no, I don't want to see anything more!"


Thanks IKEA for the lunch restaurant! Kids loading energy in the form of Swedish meatballs.


Some reward for the kids.






Exit just before closing time. Loads of stressed parents and tired kids. Please note the defibrilator on the wall. IKEA always thinks ahead!

[melander]

mmmm köttbullar

Nice pictures, seems like the da 15 is a good preformer

[Rense]

Originally Posted by melander

mmmm köttbullar

Nice pictures, seems like the da 15 is a good preformer

Yikes !

I did this once, but had no real succes. I like your pics!

[stevebrot]

Wow! Your IKEA looks just like my IKEA!

Great place to be shooting with the DA 15 ltd.

Steve

[MikeW]

I've never been in one. Your photos are very interesting, but I'm not sure IKEA is the place for me after this.

[legacyb4]

Nice examples of the 15mm indoors. I'm surprised Ikea let you shoot that freely though; here, I think they might say something...

[Douglas_of_Sweden]

Originally Posted by stevebrot

Wow! Your IKEA looks just like my IKEA!

Great place to be shooting with the DA 15 ltd.

Steve

I think it is quite universal. Do they serve meatballs with lingonberrier at your IKEA too?

Originally Posted by MikeW

I've never been in one. Your photos are very interesting, but I'm not sure IKEA is the place for me after this.

I think the same everytime I've been there.

Originally Posted by legacyb4

Nice examples of the 15mm indoors. I'm surprised Ikea let you shoot that freely though; here, I think they might say something...

Maybe this is one difference between IKEA in different places? This is a free country

[stevebrot]

Originally Posted by Douglas_of_Sweden

I think it is quite universal. Do they serve meatballs with lingonberrier at your IKEA too?

You Betcha!

Ummmmmm...

Steve

[dugrant153]

hahaha.... the Ikea you took pictures at looks almost EXACTLY like the one near my house.
Great shots, by the way. I'm liking the DA15 more and more.

[stevebrot]

Originally Posted by legacyb4

Nice examples of the 15mm indoors. I'm surprised Ikea let you shoot that freely though; here, I think they might say something...

I have seen people with cameras in IKEA before. They shoot a product or demonstration room for ideas and come back later to purchase.

FWIW, here is a link to the IKEA photo contest (unofficial I would assume) pool on Flickr:

Flickr: Ikea photo contest

Steve

[legacyb4]

I was thinking the same; the food court shot looks eerily similar to what we have. Guess they build the stores more or less the same...

When are you putting your Japan pics up for viewing?

Originally Posted by dugrant153

hahaha.... the Ikea you took pictures at looks almost EXACTLY like the one near my house.
Great shots, by the way. I'm liking the DA15 more and more.

[goddo31]

Also looks almost exactly the same as my local Ikea - all the way over in Australia.

I enjoyed the pics though - good work at presenting what I would normally think of as a boring subject matter.

[monochrome]

Nice pictures and a nice study of stressed people.

My daughter doesn't have a car - she lives in a walking city - but she has once or twice rented a CityCar and shopped at IKEA.

She tells a really funny story about returning a double mattress. Of course the plastic compression wrap had been opened, and when folding the mattress into the rented Honda Element it kept popping back out before she could close the hatch.

The IKEA people were cool or she would ahve looked like the people in your post.

[Jonson PL]

Fun shots

[Frank B]

Nice, I like the angle of view of the 15 for this sort of thing. I also like the idea of b/w for these.

Someone else beat me to it, but the store does look just like the one here (in my case, San Diego), except for the language on some of the signs.