If you can, I'd also get whole rooms, in addition to architectural details.
That's what I've done on the pictures I've done for contractor jobs.
I typically use either a 24/2.8, 21/3.5, or rarely a 15/4.5 (Voigtlander) for
interiors.
If the room is too wide for one of those lenses, I will take two pictures with
the Zuiko 16/3.5 fisheye, unwrap the fisheye distortion, cut the rectilinear
portion out, and stitch the two images together using Panorama Tools.
A 35/2.8 Shift is the preferred external lens. Normal rectilinear lenses
typically get too much keystoning perspective distortion. Alternatively, you
could use a 24, 21, or 18 and cut out the top section of the image, keeping the
back of the camera vertical to avoid perspective distortion.
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Original Message:
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From: John Pendley jpendley@xxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:32:02 -0400
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Suggestions for interiors
Hi Chuck,
This is not my field, either, but do you think it will be necessary to
capture whole rooms? (If so, it also depends on how big or small they are.)
Maybe you could do just as well by asking the contractors which features of
the building they're especially proud of and concentrating on those details.
(The contractors/architects shouldn't be shy about what they're proudest of.
In any case, if you aren't that comfortable with WA's, I wouldn't make this
a training ground. A 35mm is about as wide as I'd go, *maybe* a 28. There
are just too many problems with wider lenses, not the least of which is that
a 21 can make the far side of a room look like its in the next area code.
And I think that these people will want realistic, not vastly distorted,
depictions of the spaces involved. I wouldn't get creative with DOF,
either. Everything should be sharp.
Regards,
JohnP
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