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NIGHT AND LOW-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY / People and Places Indoors

ABOUT THIS PHOTO This living room was photographed with a 12mm lens on a cropped sensor camera, and then the lens was corrected
using the lens correction tool in Lightroom. This helped to keep the vertical lines looking straight and true. The room was lit by a combination of light
coming in from outside and an off-camera flash set up on camera left and aimed at the ceiling and triggered with a Pocket Wizard radio controller.
Taken at 1/60 second, f/4.0, and ISO 100.

4-15

take a test shot first to see if the flashes show

up as reflections in the image; if they do,

reposition the camera or the flash until the

reflection is gone.

■   Watch the edges when shooting with a super

wide-angle lens. The distortion created by
this lens type can make objects at the edges of
the frame look curved when they should be
straight.

If you look at Figure 4-15, you will see that the

room looks nice and big and bright, and while

there is a slight convergence of the verticals in

the display case, the room looks relatively normal.

As an example, Figure 4-16 shows all the things

that can go wrong when photographing inside

what should look like a great kitchen. Here, the

reflection of the flash in the window to the right,

along with the bad angle and severe distortion