I have a few indoors architecture tips for you today.

My living room (Photo: Michael Willems)

Shooting indoors architecture is tough. Light differences, low light, rooms that are too small and distorted… many challenges. But they can be overcome with a little attention. The way to do this is as follows: take your time and consider the following:

1. Shoot with a wide angle lens. This allows you “to get stuff in”.
2. But do not go crazy and make every closet look like a large room.
3. Expose for the outside.. i.e. do not overexpose the background. Else, you wil get windows that are too bright – so expose for those windows.
4. Now expose the inside sufficiently. Start by turning on inside lights.
5. You will probably also need flash – and you may well need flash exposure compensation (FEC), since walls are often light.
6. Bounce that flash!
7. Set your White Balance correctly. Consider using a gel on the flash to equalize light bulbs and flash.
8. Focus accurately, one third of the y into the image.
9. Avoid distortion. Shoot from 4′ above the ground, or consider shooting every so slightly upward. If you get perspective distortion, use Lightroom, Lens Correction method I explained a few days ago.

Simple. Once you know!