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06-02-2015, 02:16 AM   #16
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QuoteOriginally posted by stillshot2 Quote
Your subjects will all be perfectly still. No reason not to stitch multiple images together if you have the software to do so.
Oh yes... plenty of reason. With objects this close you WILL need a panoramic head (or a workaround as I have described above), there's no way the lines will match otherwise. You can only just pop the camera on a tripod and shoot along when shooting landscapes.

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I shoot a lot of this type of stuff as an architect. Here's a few things I think make for a better shot.

1.) Turn on every light in the house, every last one. You don't want to see a dark hall beyond, and lamps that are shot while off look dreary.
2.) When I am shooting something like a kitchen, no matter how clean the homeowner makes it, it's still got too much clutter. I usually just move almost everything except a nick nack or two to the floor just outside the shot in the same groupings it was in on the counter. I also take a messy pic first so I can refer to it to return belongings.
3.) Straightening verticals in post is a must.
4.) I often just exposure bracket when I don't have time to set up flashes for an entire house shoot and blend in pp.
5.) I usually time outdoor shots at blue hour or when the sun is on the facade I am shooting to create shadow lines and depth.
6.) For exteriors, make sure the grass is cut of there's a lawn.
1.) Mhh... mostly. Sometimes I like to turn off a light to guide the eye... I personally think it looks better that way, but it always depends. It's worth a try.

And the rest I couldn't agree more.

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Oh yes... plenty of reason. With objects this close you WILL need a panoramic head (or a workaround as I have described above), there's no way the lines will match otherwise. You can only just pop the camera on a tripod and shoot along when shooting landscapes.


1.) Mhh... mostly. Sometimes I like to turn off a light to guide the eye... I personally think it looks better that way, but it always depends. It's worth a try.

And the rest I couldn't agree more.
I haven't stitched them yet, but I took a pano or two last night w/ a normal tripod head, and plan to use Hugin to stitch them together - it works quite well!
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I did the photos for selling my house, then another realtor used them again when the next owner tried to resell. other than everything people have covered, if you dont want them reused, talk to the realtor about giving credit.

the realtor who tried to reuse the shots without paying me or giving me credit told me she could because once it was in mls listings they were property of mls and could be used over and over again. it took a letter from a lawyer to convince her that she should either pay me or stop using them. I dont know if anyone else has had that issue or even if I was legally right, bit it didnt seem ok to me, and after the letter she took the images down.
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will have to get my eyes checked I read the title the first off as re-instate pornography and thought what.

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Just wondering if anyone had general tips to pass on
Try to keep the verticals... vertical and the horizontals, well horizontal, it sounds obvious, but doing it in camera can save a lot of time in PP.

Also watch the edges of the frame so that stuff is not cut in half, either all in or move it totally out of frame.

Blown windows of outside views, either HDR or multiple exposure combined to correct.

And lastly reflections, make sure you not in the frame.
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QuoteOriginally posted by bobbotron Quote
I haven't stitched them yet, but I took a pano or two last night w/ a normal tripod head, and plan to use Hugin to stitch them together - it works quite well!
Wait, I thought you haven't stitched them yet? How do you know if it works well or not?
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the rokinon fisheye can do a brilliant job, actually. You just need to use Image Trends - Fisheye-Hemi Plug-In - Corrects Fisheye Lens Distortion and retains Image Content Details twice: The Best Method of Defishing a Fisheye Photo – Lonely Speck

at $30, it's not free, but it's fairly cheap relatively speaking, and it does a pretty amazing job and offers much less distortion than a rectilinear lens. You can get a free trial (it will watermark the shots) to decide if it's worth the cash.

grabbing these from an old post -- excuse the watermarking on the pic, I hadn't relicensed the product after switching photoshop versions when I did it as an example.

right out of the camera:


Best effort with Lightroom:


With Fisheye Hemi:


Sadly, I don't have a comparable shot with the 10-20, since I was taking the picture for a record of the pretty room we stayed in, not as a lens test, but the difference would be something like this, only a larger difference since this is showing an 8mm rectilinear rather than 10:
Wow, that is incredible, I'll have to buy that at some point, that would really boost the utility of my 8mm rokinon.

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QuoteOriginally posted by kadajawi Quote
Oh yes... plenty of reason. With objects this close you WILL need a panoramic head (or a workaround as I have described above), there's no way the lines will match otherwise. You can only just pop the camera on a tripod and shoot along when shooting landscapes.
Huh? No where did I say not to use a tripod, so I am confused why you are disagreeing with stitching images together and then proceed to talk about a panorama?
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Huh? No where did I say not to use a tripod, so I am confused why you are disagreeing with stitching images together and then proceed to talk about a panorama?
I assumed by stitching you meant creating a panorama. If you just mean making use of composition adjustment, that is a good way to get a wider field of view with Pentax cameras, and one I sadly forgot to mention.

If you are talking about a panorama however that won't work. The optical center or whatever it is the camera has to rotate around is most certainly not going to be the tripod mount. Just put your camera on a tripod and take a photo of a scene were the objects in the center all line up, but are in different distances. Then turn the camera to either side and take a photo. Suddenly the lines won't match up. The stitching software can fix slight variations, but photos taken from a tripod? No. Handheld if you try to rotate it around the right point might work better.
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My experience yesterday, as I am a novice for house photos.
The realtor's sample photos were no good, so I went to the house and took photos.

I had the K-01 with the kit lens, but the distortion at 18mm was not nice, so I changed to my only other wider angle being the old SMC Pentax 1:2.8 24mm.
With that lens, the vertical distortion was not too bad when I got down on my knees.

I kept the shutter in range 1/30 to 1/90 to get a mix of fill flash, and I kept the aperture in range f/8 to f/11 to keep sharpness over dof.
I used the AF360 off camera in wireless slave. The K-01 was in spot meter mode and i did not bracket exposure or focus.
The first photo was of the large living room with green carpet. The reflection of the carpet on the light colored walls was uneven, so I could not use that one, it looked like a bad paint job. Also as all the furniture is out, the large empty room did not look appealing.

I used raw+ mode, but most of the camera jpgs were well exposed, and to save time I just downsized the jpgs to 640 by 480 pixels, which seems to be the standard, with no post proc, except to rotate one photo a bit to improve the vertical distortion.
In the end there are 20 usable photos. They are at least of average or better quality compared to other listings I looked at.

The realtor said he will use them, but I said it is his choice.
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My experience yesterday, as I am a novice for house photos.
The realtor's sample photos were no good, so I went to the house and took photos.

I had the K-01 with the kit lens, but the distortion at 18mm was not nice, so I changed to my only other wider angle being the old SMC Pentax 1:2.8 24mm.
With that lens, the vertical distortion was not too bad when I got down on my knees.

I kept the shutter in range 1/30 to 1/90 to get a mix of fill flash, and I kept the aperture in range f/8 to f/11 to keep sharpness over dof.
I used the AF360 off camera in wireless slave. The K-01 was in spot meter mode and i did not bracket exposure or focus.
The first photo was of the large living room with green carpet. The reflection of the carpet on the light colored walls was uneven, so I could not use that one, it looked like a bad paint job. Also as all the furniture is out, the large empty room did not look appealing.

I used raw+ mode, but most of the camera jpgs were well exposed, and to save time I just downsized the jpgs to 640 by 480 pixels, which seems to be the standard, with no post proc, except to rotate one photo a bit to improve the vertical distortion.
In the end there are 20 usable photos. They are at least of average or better quality compared to other listings I looked at.

The realtor said he will use them, but I said it is his choice.
Distortion doesn't matter IMHO, the Lightroom profiles are good enough. The wider the better.
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I shoot with the Sigma 10-20 @10mm without flash.

Good luck

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How did the shoot go? Curious what good angles you got
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