Originally posted by jaywes I applaud you for showcasing your work and your business. I am an architect and very much interested in my future business including photography since I am just as passionate about them both. I also find it interesting that you stuck with Pentax as I've heard from a few architectural photographers I spoke with whom are against it. Some for right reasons when it comes to tilt-shift lenses and exterior high rise photography which I love and want to do. With the new FF on the way it will be a turning point on if I stay pentax or not. Thank you for inspiration if anything.
But Pentax has (limited) tilt shift built right into the camera. Only once you can actually afford to buy a TS lens will Pentax be limiting you. And even then, just take a panorama, fix it in post. Or even a regular shot. There's plenty of resolution to be able to correct the perspective a bit... especially since you can do quite a bit in camera anyway.
I agree with the criticism... rearrange the place for every photo if necessary. Just small details... look through the viewfinder or on the live view screen and check the borders etc.
I maintain my criticism of your flash usage, while it improved a lot IMHO the flashes could be dialed down further in some shots, for example the bedroom (if that is natural light, I apologize. But maybe try to block the window then, just a bit?). If you are using them, the idea is that the viewer shouldn't notice you did. I'd also consider getting some gels for the flashes in order to get the color temperature to match more with the actual lighting in the place.
Countershot.jpg for example doesn't look like there were any flashes involved, and it looks really good. There is some contrast, some warmth going on.
Check out the works done for David Hicks
David Hicks , a high profile interior designer from Australia, now working internationally. Likewise, Ong & Ong from Singapore:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.651735138219074.1073741844.149094338483159&type=3
Now I suppose the photographers who did those shots weren't the hit and run kind of photographer, but look how the shots seem to lack the existence of a flash. Maybe they used flashes, maybe they didn't. To me the use of a flash subconsciously tells me that this is not how the place is going to look like. It's all natural light here, and if the exterior is overexposed, so be it. In my work I often found that even though I could recover what was outside the windows, I didn't want to do that. I'd rather have a nice, white, overblown translucent curtain hang in front of it, hiding what is behind.
In any case it doesn't take too much time to do HDR in post. Create a 32 bit TIFF in a HDR program, load it in Lightroom and adjust the sliders like you would with a normal shot, just that you have much more data to work with, you an recover much brighter highlights and darker shadows.
I know that you usually don't get the kind of projects I did, or the photographers who did the projects linked to above, but I think it can still be applied. And the house in your last shoot is a pretty nice project. It's one of the sort of projects that could be the basis for your portfolio, and your way into better, higher end projects IMHO. Maybe you can try to track down the previous owners of that house, see if you can do some work for them?
Btw., Bath1 is tilted.