This is one of the kitchens in our showroom. I have so much to learn about this type of photography. I hope at least it will give the directors a sense of the new showroom.
I tried to follow my mentors advise but forgot to reread before I left. And while there I pulled the tendon on my left thumb. Can't use it at all. So my commenting will be limited hard to type. Long day yesterday. But today is the meeting day. Yeah! Then three days off.
layoff commenting for a bit and care for your thumb. You can still look at everyone's awesome stuff. This is fabulous, despite your reservations. I read RS's instructions with great interest ... will be trying them out in living room to photograph Christmas decorations, where they might apply also. The waist-high concept was not something I might have thought of. Unfortunately (maybe not), living room does not look like a show room, so I'd better revise concept unless I want to go nuts and drive everyone in household nuts with my requests as well.
@joansmor@francoise Hi Joan and Françoise - this looks fine Joan and you seem to have made a great start. I forgot to say that you can often gain extra viewpoint by shooting from out side the building through an open door or window. The reason for the waist level viewpoint is to have a neutral perspective of the furniture which is about twice waist-height tall in most kitchens. Your eye and brain correct for the perspective shift, the camera doesn't, so you have to do the correction for it. Take care Joan and be careful with that thumb.
@joansmor@francoise Damn, I forgot to say that if you can't get far enough away to get everything in - like the oven in this shot - then do a panorama like you would with a landscape - either in camera if you have a modern camera that supports that or, preferably, in post-production - you can use PS CC Joan.
I think the only thing I could see doing for this shot other than your mentor's excellent suggestions is taking the garbage can out. I hope your thumb heals quickly. Funny how those little things are so important but we don't realize it until it gets hurt!
@olivetreeann Oh yeah I was totally bummed when I saw that. Just too tired to really do this assignment justice but it earned me early release by 1/2 hour twice. YEAH
Very sorry to hear about your thumb. That is really too bad, are you feeling better? I like this showroom, although I'd get rid of the black trashcan. It's a beautiful kitchen, can't believe I missed this photo!
Take care of your thumb Joan.