Hotel rooms

oh, the wonders of adjustment layers in PS CS2!!

handheld, with diffuser over flash sitting on a bracket above the camera. This is the tub I sat in while shooting out into the room for images 6622 and 6628. PS CS2 to the rescue

flash on bracket again, shooting through the glass enclosing the bathtub of room 6649. In PS CS2, knocked down the reflections on the "not quite clean" glass!

one of the earliest shots in the series. Bracketed in 1/3rd stops, so graphic artist would have a range of densities to work with. Single strobe, with umbrella, to camera left.

middle of the room, working toward the huge wall of windows. Still have the single strobe on camera left, fired with an infrared synch.

just short of the wall of glass windows, with no serious overexposure of the Christmas tree. Still firing the single strobe with the infrared synch.

grab shot, showing the great view from the Executive Lounge on the 8th floor.

IMG_6542

Really tight space to photograph.

shot during the planning stage. No supplemental light. Shot from the balcony, handheld, with my back against the balcony railing.

trusty strobe with umbrella in corner of the room, to camera left. Ceiling had two "dropped" areas, restricting how high I could get. The area behind the closest chair was just large enough to walk between the chair and the sliding glass doors to the balcony. img_6562 was taken from the balcony while I awaited the ladder that this shot was taken from.

shot handheld seated in the bathtub! area of bathroom totally open to the sleeping area. shuttered doors available to close off one area from the other. Strobe just out of sight to camera left. Img_6628 is a bracketed exposure from the same vantage point.

different density than IMG_6622, in the same sequence.

slightly better angles than the file (IMG_6634) that I adjusted in PS CS2. Handheld, with diffused flash on a bracket above the camera. This is the bathtub I shot from for IMG_6622 and IMG_6628

shot handheld seated in the bathtub! area of bathroom totally open to the sleeping area. shuttered doors available to close off one area from the other. Strobe just out of sight to camera left. IMG_6622 is a bracketed exposure from the same vantage point.