Playing with Alienbees lights in real estate
To be honest, I was a bit upset at my last real estate shoot. I didn’t think the pictures came out very well and a number of my coworkers agreed. There were numerous problems with them such as
- Not correcting for verticals
- Blown out areas from the flash
- Shadows
- Some parts of the photos were too dark
I had a number of theories on how to fix these issues, but for the lighting my idea was to purchase an Alienbees light and an extra Pocketwizard MultiMAX and use it as a third light. One of my coworkers offered to stop by the house with a lot of the equipment that I am looking to buy someday so I was able to get a good look at what it can accomplish and whether it will solve some of my problems.
One note before I show these shots. When we took these photos, we were mainly trying to see what the lights and lenses were capable of and what issues we may have. We did not correct for verticals and I did not Photoshop any of these pictures. In this way you can get a good idea what the equipment did without seeing what it looks like after Photoshop.