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Settings for building interior photography

Started 11 months ago | Questions thread
Sittatunga Veteran Member • Posts: 5,406
Re: Settings for building interior photography

LillyLo wrote:

I googled it, but didnt find anything. I am selling a flat, and I want to put it on the web. My photos look somehow poor, flat. I looked at ads of some real estate agents, their photos are more wide, more clear, even somehow curvy. I have an M50 -18-55 and the all-around 18-150. What can i do for more impressing photos?

The curvy pictures probabbly come from a fisheye or possibly a GoPro with a lot of barrel distortion. Amazon have the very nice Samyang 8mm f /2.8 fisheye to fit EF-M for £240 (you need to set the camera to Release shutter w/o lens in order to use it) or the Canon EF-M 11-22 mm f/4-5.6 IS STM for £366. Either or both would do much better than an 18mm lens on your camera, but both take some mastering and, unless you have a use for them afterwards, it's probably cheaper and more effective to hire a photographer. Microsoft's ICE or Canon's PhotoStitch are both free and  surprisingly good and effective for panoramas, but matching the edges indoors is tricky, specially if the camera is rotating about the tripod Bush rather than the nodal point of the lens.

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