Architectural Photo Shoot

I  recently did a little interior architectural photography for a local custom home builder, Artisan Homes. They needed a couple of shoots of kitchens they have done for an advertising campaign  they have coming up in the new year.

This first kitchen shot is pretty basic, it was lit with only two speed lights.

The first 580Ex was to camera left. I set it on a light stand and used a shoot thru umbrella to soften the light so that I didn't get any harsh shadows.
The second 580EX was on camera right, it to was on a light stand but was bounced into the corner of the ceiling, again in order to minimize any harsh shadows.

The second kitchen was a little more complex, they wanted to have the entire kitchen in the shot but not the eating nook, which made the space to shoot in very tight.

I used 3 lights for this shot, an Elinchrom D-lite 4 with softbox to camera left, then a 580 EX with shoot thru umbrella just off of camera right and then a second 580 EX bounced off the ceiling far camera right.
In order to get the entire kitchen in one shot I had to take 3 separate photos, each over lapping the other and stitch them together in CS5.

I think both kitchens turned out great and the clients where very happy with the final images, which is all the matters.

Both images where taken with a Canon 1DMk3/ 16-35 f2.8 L .