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#6 - Interior

Why Are You Doing this Assignment? When photographing an interior, you’ll encounter issues like lighting contrast and color temperature of the light sources.

Do the Following

Photograph an interior.

You can interpret interior narrowly, to be an architectural space, or more broadly, such as a metaphor.

Tips

• Don't photograph inside government and commercial buildings with first asking for permission.

• If there’s a difference in the intensity of light in the interior, it will be difficult to photograph.

The bright shadows that you see with your eyes will be much darker in your photographs.

You can crop the dark areas, or you can add light, such as using bounce flash if you have a separate flash.

• Set the white balance to match the light source.

If there are different colored light sources, set a custom (preset) white balance.

• You can take some close ups of the interior, as well as photographs of the entire space.

• You can concentrate on one aspect of the interior, rather than everything.

• If you have a tripod, or can set the camera on a surface, you'll be able to use slow shutter speeds.

A plastic bag filled with dried beans, uncooked rice, or Styrofoam packing pellets, enables you to aim your camera.

Use the self-timer or a remote shutter release to trip the shutter.

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