How to shoot showers with glass doors to avoid reflections, shadows, and make it pop. For more info see my real estate photography series at amzn.to/3mFoznx
man... your videos have literally saved me SO MUCH TIME. I was cutting out every window with the pen tool and then lining them up in a separate photoshop project lol. I know... amateur hour. Thanks for all the time you put into these!
Nathan, I discovered your book on Amazon which I purchased and which led me to your channel. This was when I was interested in getting into interior photography but hadn’t even shot a room before. I had started by being informed about the HDR /flash blend technique but it required so many photos it seemed very long winded and confusing, but then you talked about Flambient and I was hooked! After absorbing everything you have taught, borrowing a friends flat as a practice subject and using all your advice and methods I’ve now landed 3 clients who are interior designers/ construction companies and they want me to document every new job they have, which works out at around 3-4 jobs a week between them all. I’m a novice and keep coming across new challenges every time (especially with long rooms or small bathrooms!) but the clients are happy and it’s all thanks to you! Keep making videos please and just wanted to say I’m really appreciative of the info you’ve put out there, esp in a field that is so secretive and hard to get into. I’m buying pretty much all your other books on Amazon as well 👍🏼💖
@@NathanCoolPhoto Yes you definitely have. I was wondering if you had any advice specifically for how a ceiling should look with regards to how bright and where shadows should be and stopping spot lights blowing out, or how to get the nice yellow ambient of a lamp in a small area without getting the rest of the colour cast elsewhere? Am I just getting the balance wrong between the flash and how much to overpower the ambient light? Thanks if you find the time to answer 🤩
Thanks Nathan! I appreciate all that you do and giving us your flash power settings at the end of this video. Between this video and the other bathroom video shooting into the mirror, my clients are loving the new bathroom shots! Fredf
I'm glad I'm not the only photographer who hates seeing themselves when using flash in images! Lol... Thanks for the tutorial, bathrooms can be a real nightmare. Keep up the great work.
1st! 👍🏻😝 Great video Nathan! I love your videos so much. They are always so informative and succinct. Please keep them coming! I have learned so much from you! Thanks again.
Thanks for the video. Hate bathrooms. Might hate them a bit less after this method. My tired old version of Photoshop does not speak to those RAW files I make with my D500 so I have to use JPG if I want to do anything in Photoshop.
Thanks Nathan for the great tips! I'm trying to break away from HDR and the flash tips are really helping. I'm finding that it adds so much time on location and in processing, but with much better results. Need a tutorial on how to do this quicker......LOL
Hi Jeff, one thing that will speed things up is to not do every shot as a showcase...leave bathrooms, guest/child baths, and laundry rooms to single exposures (with light flash)...keep those simple.
Awesome tutorials... Thank you for making your knowledge available to all of us who want to get into Real Estate photography. Can you please tell me where I can find the different settings of your lightroom presets?... And once again thank you for great tutorials. BTW, your books are also awesome.
Great as always. Question. On the 2nd bathroom. How if you threw a black cloth over the toilet on the shower pop shots ? Would that remove the reflection or just make more problematic? Thanks
Very cool as always! Loves your videos a lot! Just a quick question, how do you frame and shoot extremely tiny bathrooms? I find it very hard to include the toilet, shower and vanity all together in one shot. There're not many videos on UA-cam talking about shooting tiny bathrooms. I only found one tutorial very briefly talking about this topic and he suggested to put the camera near the ceiling and shoot from a birdseye view. But the photos are not so flattering. I will appreciate should you give your opinion on this topic.
People know bathrooms have toilets so I never both with them. If the bathroom is so small that you can't shoot it all, just include the best feature(s). I also cover another way to get around tight spaces with various compositions in the first book in my real estate photography series: www.amazon.com/dp/B0755KXSL4
I know you describe your ambient shot as staying right of center on the histogram. But I was wondering what your in-camera light meter typically registers?
Thanks! I ALWAYS have problems shooting showers and bathrooms, and this will fix it. You mentioned that you're using a Yongnuo YN-360, but that's a light wand. Are you using a YN-560?
Mr Cool...question. When you shoot your ambient frames do you have the lights on or off? If off do you shoot a separate ambient frame with them on or a flash frane with them on? I feel at certain times a space could benefit from the lights on but when I brush them in or use an ambient frame with the lights on it tends to look like a bright blob. Thoughts or suggestions? Thanks for the videos and your time!
Both, either, doesn't matter to me, I use enough light to drown out the worst of the cast. Different client like different looks, some like the yellow cast, some hate it.
Quick question, wouldn't it make the work flow a little smoother to hit X and swap your white brush while painting in the mask to "erase" something that is over done. For example when you used the eraser to erase the mask on the tile. Probably more of a case of user preference. Great work, as always!
Question: In the above examples. When you take your ambient shots are you using AUTO White Balance? When you take your flash shot do you switch the White Balance to Flash?
hey Nathan .... now I understand it a little bit more for taking flash shots and how to edited then .... thanks for the tutorial ...
Man, you really are a great help. Been a real estate photo editor for 9 months and had no idea or tricks for it. You saved me. Thanks.
man... your videos have literally saved me SO MUCH TIME. I was cutting out every window with the pen tool and then lining them up in a separate photoshop project lol. I know... amateur hour. Thanks for all the time you put into these!
Nathan, I discovered your book on Amazon which I purchased and which led me to your channel. This was when I was interested in getting into interior photography but hadn’t even shot a room before. I had started by being informed about the HDR /flash blend technique but it required so many photos it seemed very long winded and confusing, but then you talked about Flambient and I was hooked! After absorbing everything you have taught, borrowing a friends flat as a practice subject and using all your advice and methods I’ve now landed 3 clients who are interior designers/ construction companies and they want me to document every new job they have, which works out at around 3-4 jobs a week between them all. I’m a novice and keep coming across new challenges every time (especially with long rooms or small bathrooms!) but the clients are happy and it’s all thanks to you! Keep making videos please and just wanted to say I’m really appreciative of the info you’ve put out there, esp in a field that is so secretive and hard to get into. I’m buying pretty much all your other books on Amazon as well 👍🏼💖
Thanks Elly, I'm glad I could help!
@@NathanCoolPhoto Yes you definitely have. I was wondering if you had any advice specifically for how a ceiling should look with regards to how bright and where shadows should be and stopping spot lights blowing out, or how to get the nice yellow ambient of a lamp in a small area without getting the rest of the colour cast elsewhere? Am I just getting the balance wrong between the flash and how much to overpower the ambient light? Thanks if you find the time to answer 🤩
You're doing the lords work, thanks Nathan
watched this morning....shor this afternoon...edited this evening and it worked a treat! thanks Mr.cool
Thank you so much for addressing the weird artifacts that show up in the luminosity mode. I have not been able to figure out how to deal with that.
Did I find it useful?...Of course Nathan!! Ebooks are great
Your tips are always so super helpful. I hate shooting bathrooms so I'll be using this one a lot! Thank you.
Thanks again Nathan, your videos are the best and so helpful.
Thanks Nathan! I appreciate all that you do and giving us your flash power settings at the end of this video. Between this video and the other bathroom video shooting into the mirror, my clients are loving the new bathroom shots! Fredf
NIce job explaining how to handle reflections in a shower. Thanks Nathan. Sure beats cloning and sliding shower doors!
I'm glad I'm not the only photographer who hates seeing themselves when using flash in images! Lol... Thanks for the tutorial, bathrooms can be a real nightmare. Keep up the great work.
Your work is highly appreciated Mr Cool !
1st! 👍🏻😝
Great video Nathan! I love your videos so much. They are always so informative and succinct. Please keep them coming! I have learned so much from you! Thanks again.
Another great Tutorial, thanks for sharing and all the effort to make this incredible videos.
Great video. You're starting to convince me to trash my Enfuse processes and move towards a "flambient" setup. Thanks for all the great content!
thank you bro
Thanks for the video. Hate bathrooms. Might hate them a bit less after this method. My tired old version of Photoshop does not speak to those RAW files I make with my D500 so I have to use JPG if I want to do anything in Photoshop.
Thanks Nathan for the great tips! I'm trying to break away from HDR and the flash tips are really helping. I'm finding that it adds so much time on location and in processing, but with much better results. Need a tutorial on how to do this quicker......LOL
Hi Jeff, one thing that will speed things up is to not do every shot as a showcase...leave bathrooms, guest/child baths, and laundry rooms to single exposures (with light flash)...keep those simple.
great
love it! thank you so much!
Thanks for the instruction
You rock! Thanks!!!
Awesome tutorials... Thank you for making your knowledge available to all of us who want to get into Real Estate photography. Can you please tell me where I can find the different settings of your lightroom presets?... And once again thank you for great tutorials. BTW, your books are also awesome.
Thanks Oscar! The presets are in each book ;)
@@NathanCoolPhoto Thank you very much.
Great as always. Question. On the 2nd bathroom. How if you threw a black cloth over the toilet on the shower pop shots ? Would that remove the reflection or just make more problematic? Thanks
Thanks! That would be too much work, take too much time, and likely still reflect, so not recommended.
Very cool as always! Loves your videos a lot! Just a quick question, how do you frame and shoot extremely tiny bathrooms? I find it very hard to include the toilet, shower and vanity all together in one shot. There're not many videos on UA-cam talking about shooting tiny bathrooms. I only found one tutorial very briefly talking about this topic and he suggested to put the camera near the ceiling and shoot from a birdseye view. But the photos are not so flattering. I will appreciate should you give your opinion on this topic.
People know bathrooms have toilets so I never both with them. If the bathroom is so small that you can't shoot it all, just include the best feature(s). I also cover another way to get around tight spaces with various compositions in the first book in my real estate photography series: www.amazon.com/dp/B0755KXSL4
Got it. Thank you. That's a very good point of not shooting the toilet. I will definitely check out your book.
great!
the scream is always a bonus when re watching for the 4th time.
I know you describe your ambient shot as staying right of center on the histogram. But I was wondering what your in-camera light meter typically registers?
Hi Tyler, I suggest using the histogram method, which is covered in more detail in my interiors e-book at www.amazon.com/dp/B0755KXSL4
Great video, super helpful thanks. When you go to do your shower pop, does your flash trigger the camera, or do you set a timer?
Thanks Susi. I show the entire setup in my interiors book, lots more detail there: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0755KXSL4/
@@NathanCoolPhoto buy the ebook. It is set up so you can highlight..take notes...fantastic learning tool that youtube videos can not compare to.
Thanks! I ALWAYS have problems shooting showers and bathrooms, and this will fix it. You mentioned that you're using a Yongnuo YN-360, but that's a light wand. Are you using a YN-560?
Did I say 360? Should be 560. You can get a full list of all my gear used on these shoots in my latest book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0755KXSL4
Mr Cool...question. When you shoot your ambient frames do you have the lights on or off? If off do you shoot a separate ambient frame with them on or a flash frane with them on? I feel at certain times a space could benefit from the lights on but when I brush them in or use an ambient frame with the lights on it tends to look like a bright blob. Thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks for the videos and your time!
Both, either, doesn't matter to me, I use enough light to drown out the worst of the cast. Different client like different looks, some like the yellow cast, some hate it.
Hi Nathan. Thanks for the video. What do you have on your shoes in this video?
I'd have to relook, but I use those blue, disposable shoe covers: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J8BP1OQ/
Quick question, wouldn't it make the work flow a little smoother to hit X and swap your white brush while painting in the mask to "erase" something that is over done. For example when you used the eraser to erase the mask on the tile. Probably more of a case of user preference. Great work, as always!
It depends on your workflow, and I cover a bunch of stuff like that in my advanced editing book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0779PCVWC
Question: In the above examples. When you take your ambient shots are you using AUTO White Balance? When you take your flash shot do you switch the White Balance to Flash?
For interiors I use AWB on all shots, and color correct when needed, see also ua-cam.com/video/PVLZJF3OCDc/v-deo.html
Is their a reason you flatten before saving back to light room. I never flatten I just control S just making sure I'm not missing something.
Saves disk space. When you do this to say 100 images a day, it adds up.
Do you ever watermark photographs you give to your clients?
Never for real estate or products.
are your photos originally raw? i am having issues layering in PS because of my raw photos.
RAW always. It's something I stress in all my books: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0791GL8RD?ref=series_rw_dp_labf
Hi, are your presets available?
Hi Marilou, presets are in my books www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078NLRKNM?ref_=series_rw_dp_labf