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Photography of Architecture (Interior)
a bank of powerful HMI lights outside the window pointing into the room.
If you're lazy, you can just set the tripod on the floor and accept whatever color temperature comes your
way:
If your assignment does not call for the warm glow of incandescent light, get hold of a Minolta color
temperature meter and/or Kodak Professional Photoguide and find the right color correction filter. This
becomes much more critical when the room is lit with fluorescent light. Very few people or objects look
good with the sickly green cast of daylight-balanced film exposed under fluorescent light. For a film
camera, the solution is a Tiffen FL-D filter screwed over the lens. One of the luxuries of photography
with digital cameras is that you can simply press the "fluorescent white balance" switch and get very
close to the right color balance instantly. Even with a digital camera's ability to set white balance
arbitrarily, you still need to think carefully when combining different light sources.
The Drama of the Staircase
You won't have to work hard to get a dramatic staircase image. Stand at the top with a moderately wideangle
lens and point the camera down. The first image below is from the Vatican museum in Rome. It
was taken with a Yashica T4 point and shoot camera's fixed 35mm lens, the camera steadied by holding
it against the handrail.
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