HDR style shots with flash?

[Glenn]

Hi Folks, I've recently picked up a real estate job, I've never done this kind of photography before but it's not hard and seems busy. This is sort of a new real estate boom area so hiring actual photographers for this is kinda new here. The clients like this HDR look for the shots they get, and bright video (that's new for me for sure.. what a learning curve heh!) Anyway, I now have a rather large apartment building to shoot for one of them. My usual is 2 shot composites for each room with flashes and a tripod and they like those best. So all the units are occupied in this building and I understand some aren't going to be thrilled with a photographer coming in disturbing them, so I'm looking for ideas that will help get the HDR look without just overlighting every shot and getting hot spots everywhere and having to drag an overwhelming looking bunch of equipment into peoples homes.

I was going to forgo the tripod and use my gimbal for video and photos, I'll put the transmitter on top f the camera and just take a flash or 2 with me in my pockets. so I'd walk through with the video for each unit then put the flash out and shoot the photos but I wonder if there is a way to make this work with the in-camera HDR settings and the flash together or is there just a better way I don't know of?

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[Jeff2013]

I’ve done a bit of interior architectural photography and do it exactly as you do it. I don’t think there are any shortcuts, if quality is important.

 

[Glenn]

Thanks. Quality is important but I guess the other factor is getting the occupied apartments back with the tenants quickly with as little disruption as possible. So I worked out that the DRO features and things work but there is not much leeway in the file if something needs to be adjusted. I got the best results with flash on camera. exposing for highlights then turning TTL fill flash on and using flash compensation to balance it if needed. I think it was the best compromise and allowed all handheld shots with good light inside and some details preserved through the windows. the darkest apartment was dreary, with burgundy walls, no uncovered windows, low wattage CFL bulbs. I shot it with ISO 2000 1/15, F4 . This apartment posed a huge issue for the video portion. The agent said just shoot it with noisy ISO and let's get out of here heh.