As each day passes, I watch beautiful weather escape me into the darkness of another day passing. A little frustrated I can’t seem to find just one day to get out of the office to do some personal shooting. That being said, I’m happy that I have assignments to keep me busy. This is not unusual this time of year because the beautiful sky’s and fresh new foliage make for some great exterior shooting for the buildings that were completed over the winter months. I will have, at least in most years, some down time June through August. It seems I get flooded with more assignments from September through October because all the architectural award competitions are due at the end of the year.

As you can see, neutral colors three light sources (fluorescent, incandescent and windows) A photographic nightmare.

I promised last month I would post a few photos from an assignment I did in April. I shot a design office, probably one of the harder projects I’ve shot in a long time. This space being a design studio and office there were lots of neutral colors and mixed light sources. The biggest problem I encountered was the huge windows surrounding the entire space, these threw lots of blue light in with the white ceiling and reflective floor catching it. One fix would have been to photograph it at night but this was impossible on this project, therefore I had to photograph during business hours and was dealt problems that had to be fixed in the computer. This project was being shot for the interior designers and they need exact color match on paint colors, fabric, carpets, etc… I was able to achieve this by making sure I got the white balance correct on location and a little Photoshop mastery in the computer. To see what I use to get my white balance check out a recent post, Getting Your Color Right at Time of Capture.

This is probably one of the more difficult of situations to pull off. Huge window with blue tinted glass, spot lights and cam lights all giving off a different color cast. The only way to I could pull this off was to take three different white balance readings and blend them all together in the computer.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to a photo trip in late May through early June. I will be spending time in Boston and New Hampshire. I have been wanting to photograph Boston for a long time and finally the time allows me to do it. I will be scouting both locations for a spring workshop next year. I have  been working on some new ideas for workshops that should be exciting for both myself and my participants. Unfortunately I can’t discuss these plans just yet but what I can tell you is, a couple of these workshops currently in the works are incredible opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else.

I am currently testing the new Canon 17mm and 24mm tilt shift lenses. I’ll post my thoughts as soon as I get them. The 17mm TS would be a great help for many of the interiors I shoot. This should be a fun test. Take care and hope you stay tuned in on my posts throughout the month of May.

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Behind me is a wall of windows with blue tinted glass. I also had lots of cam lights in the ceiling which posed a problem, there were no dimmers so with the f-stop I was using I was getting huge star bursts from the lights. To fix this problem I had to shoot the photo with the lights off and then reshoot it with the lights on and blend the two together in Photoshop.

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