Property photography tips from Dom Bower

[Sceme1991]

Meh white balance.. Havent tought about it since I bought my DSLR because .raw

[mohamadelmaoula]

What lens are u using?

[MrTruthhurts777]

Brilliant video Dom, thanks for taking the time to help those of us less able than yourself. Appreciate the help.

[eolaleye]

@pictureawedding This is an very informative tutorial. However, Dom' your movement around the room began to make me dizzy! LOL!

[GTBizo]

thank you again for the great tips

[lefabuleuxtonio]

what do you what to say with the the blue is hot (warm) light and orange is not (cold)?

[komeparnell]

thank you for the great tips :)

[V2SkiLLz0R]

This was really really good indoor/property video!

Thanks a lot!

[ngvgnDOTcom]

I know colorist that color comic books to them blue is cooled and red is hot. Red is known to show evil and danger.

[max7164]

Hey dom,

How do you get such sharp photos indoors without a flash (for the first ones at least) or tripod? I just can't seem to get the same. I'm assuming that since you're photographing architecture you can't have the aperture wide open because you nned some depth of field. How do you do it?

[dombower]

@max7164 but remember its a super wide angle lens, anything past 1.5m away at f2.8 will all be at the hyper focal length. read up on that to see what that means

[KnightsbridgeAce]

Good stuff about converging verticals.

[AgentCreative]

Dombower, fantastic video! Thanks for that.

I'm a complete novice to property photography and would appreiciate if you could recommend the right tools for the job. I've got a budget up to £1000 and at this momemnt I haven't got anything. Not even a case! Might go up to £1500.

Thanks in advance!!!

[dombower]

@AgentCreative ok then,

get a nikon d90 with a sigma 10-20mm lens and get a flash sb600 or sb900 and some gells. should be about £1200

[AgentCreative]

@dombower Thanks!

Is a tripod necessary?

I've read a lot about the sigma..., they say don't save on glass, should I go for something better (£200 -£300 more)?

Thanks again!

[dombower]

@AgentCreative if you want to spend more then get the tokina 11-16f2.8 (the lens i have) as it is the best there is for wide angle on cropped sensors. and beats full frame wide angles as well

[AgentCreative]

Thanks dombower!

I have no clue about photography but I do want to learn how to take good in-door pictures. I hope that with the equipment you recommend and hours of trying will get me there. I'll be using your tutorials to get me to a good level. Shame you haven't got a course in London..., I'd be there! Cheers mate!!

[dombower]

@AgentCreative maybe in the future buddy, sorry courses are only availabe up in edinburgh at the moment.

best wishes

dom

[solidstream13]

I enjoyed the video very much. Thanks for teaching

[djaditya86]

Dom, As far as i know, in photographic terms, we refer to bluish light tint photographs as "cool" and reddish light tint photographs as "warm", even though the physical temperature scale is opposite.

[dombower]

that may be so but saying that the outside is a cool temp while saying it is around 5000k and saying the inside is warm at 3000k doesnt make sense.

[djaditya86]

Well you're right, i just read that in a photography book, but obviously you know much more than I do. :)

Cheers

[dombower]

photography is full of contridictions

[tlm1028yt]

Thought about doing some property photog for real estate or prop mgr. Have no idea how much to charge for this.

[dombower]

if it is just the photography then it cannot be toomuch, if you are doing floor plans and diagrammes then you can charge.

maybe 20per flat.

[gerrywasthere1]

@dombower

£20 per flat?! that would barely cover petrol costs let alone insurance, hire of equipment, post processing...

[dombower]

@gerrywasthere1 they give me about 10 houses to shoot in a day. all in the same city. so i can easily do it on my bike if i was really feeling fit. 200pounds in a days woth of work. keeps me happy

[gerrywasthere1]

@dombower

how many shots are you providing for £20?!

[dombower]

@gerrywasthere1 this is for a rental company, for a property sales company, i will shoot around 12 final shots and charge around 120pounds

[sutherlandrobyn]

The right light bulb on the right hand side of the mantale is out, shouldn't it be replaced before u take any pictures?

[edgarbarradaskate]

thanks for all the tips again Mr Dom =]

[Drpepper99uk]

Dom,

Speaking of white balance, on my D300 there is options for A1,A2,A3 B1 B2 B3 etc under one of the settings...what would you use these for? I know they can be accessed by rotating the sub dial whilst selecting what White balance preset you want(daylight,cloudy, flash etc) I should really get out the camera manual but sometimes it's easier to just ask someone and let them explain!!

[dombower]

that stuff is for your own whitebalance presets.... of the pre set levels. Ie if wb of indoors in the camera is set to 3000 a1 would be 2800, a2 is 2600 b1 is 3200 etc. the are the smallchanges within the presets that you canchoose

[Drpepper99uk]

Hi again,

Thanks for clearing that up Dom, I had a feeling it might be associated with various settings within the preset's on the camera.

Mike.

[fahim76uk]

Thank you Very much ,,

[666haloinc666]

At 2:56 it sound like he's saying "this shit" haha.

Nice video Dom!

[dombower]

hahahaha thats the ghetto gansta in me coming out! good notice

[Drpepper99uk]

This shoot!!! lol, must be his Scottish accent making it sound like Shit ;-)

[onjoFilms]

Thanks for the time to give those tips. Very informative.

[SoundsandImages]

Great video as usual Dom, but one thing is what Aperture would you use for this kind of shooting?

[dombower]

an aperture so that i can shoot handheld, in thiscase f2.8

[SoundsandImages]

Thanks for that Dom.. Very useful info.

[ManicEightBall]

That's a lot of info. I'm going to have to watch this twice.

Thanks!

[dombower]

white balance can be confusing but i have made about 3 other videos about it to help you out. its very difficult in this as now you are having to balance white balance with flash light as well.

[rickjbradbury]

cool tips... time for some flash gels me thinks.

[dombower]

you can get them really cheap as well, a big pack of rosco gells for 8 pounds or so

[Drpepper99uk]

Hi Dom,

Once again, an excellent video to help those out that take property photos.

Mike.

[dombower]

thank you

[spaded]

great video as always

[Frace91]

really good informative video since i don't have a clue about flashes

thanks

[unnownsoul]

very good tips dom.... keep up the good work