Regular readers of this blog (and there are more of them every day which is great!) may recall that I recently moved house, and it has been my intention ever since to photograph the house, using the off-camera lighting techniques that I’ve learned over the past year or so. The opportunity to do so has not yet arisen, but it is a near-term goal. In the meantime, I decided to post a photograph of a slice of luxury that I was lucky to enjoy this time last year.
While I will be aiming to use off camera speedlights when I photograph the new house, and balance them with the ambient light outside and the tungsten lights inside, this particular image does not have any artificial light added, and is entirely lit by the ambient light in the room.
The room is at the Tanjong Jara resort in Terenganu, Malaysia. It is not too far from the fishing village that I posted a few months ago, and was my home for a few nights at the end of an enjoyable visit to Malaysia for Ayesha and John’s wedding. Incidentally, today is their first wedding anniversary, and it seems to have become a tradition here for me to post a shot from their wedding to mark it, so check that out tomorrow.
Ideally, when photographing the hotel room at the Tanjong Jara, I would have chosen the optimal time of day for the light outside to balance nicely with the light in the room. In this case however, the time of the shoot was simply the time we arrived at the resort – the aim of the photograph was to record the room in all its luxury before we, inevitably, messed it up with our half unpacked suitcases and beach towels hung out to dry.
As it happened, the time of our arrival (and so the time the photograph was taken) was just before 3pm, which is far from ideal as outside was much brighter than inside. I helped my case a little by shooting RAW, which subsequently enabled me to recover some detail in the window.
Other than that, I exposed to keep the lamps from blowing out to white, and that was sufficient to give a nice warm feel to the room and, hopefully, convey that sense of luxury.
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