LX3 Does Real Estate!

I am very impressed with the shots, very very impressed.

On thing that I noticed (I am surprised nobody mentioned this), when the voice is talking there is a bad 60 cycle hum. Not sure what you recorded it on, or edited it on, but it sounds like you have a ground loop in the audio chain. When the music is playing without the voice the hum is absent.
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Oll an gwella,
Jim



[LX1]

[FZ30] * IS/L B-300 * IS/L B-Macro * Minolta No. 0, No. 1 & No. 2 * Sunpak 383 * Benbo Trekker

[L1] * Olympus 25mm 2.8 * Hexanon 40mm 1.8 * Vivitar Series 1 135mm 2.3 * Tokina 500mm 8.0 *

I noticed that in the D700 shots you were able to keep the windows from blowing out. Was that due to the D700's increased DR or did you use special processing (exposure blending, HDR, etc.)?

Ralph

Yes, that is 60 cycle hum that got mixed inside the food chain on that one listing. It's replacement is in progress.
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Clint Thayer

The Nikon shots at that listing were taken with multiple exposures.

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Clint Thayer

how many stops did you bracket those multiple exposures with the Nikon Clint ?
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Riley

When I die I want to go peacefully sleeping like my Grandfather did...
not screaming, like the passengers in his car....

Thank you for the comparison. Both galleries are photographically perfect. I’m neither a client nor a real estate agent, so I can’t say which one has more advertising power, but artistically I prefer the Nikon pictures. The shallow DOF of Nikon gives a much pleasant effect.

I considered buying a Pansonic LX3 or a Leica D-Lux 4 for his compactness. Now my interest got lower. Perhaps one day when I’ll want to take photos in a difficult area where I can’t afford carrying big equipment.

more impressive - I actually like the LX3 shots better.

I'm thinking maybe the increased DOF of the LX3 gives it a leg up for this application.

Nice job all around, Clint.

Ralph

When using flash indoors you can actually photograph it in such a way that everything is nicely litten. Inside and outside. One exposure. Chose an aperture that makes for a nice indoor lightning with the flash and then change the shutter speed to adjust for the outside light (since shutter speed doesn't affect the flash light).

It might be that the WB from the inside home lights gives not the right color, since it is a different WB/ light color than the outside light, but then you could do a multi exposure / blending i Photoshop.

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JelleSE

http://www.jelledobma.com

I do quite a bit of new homes interior shots for a variety of builders. I balance the use of bounce flash with the ambient light coming in. In fact, I'm heading out on an appointment today at 3 PM. But these are great!!!

Great job...
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As always, make it a great day!