GH4 Panasonic gh4 real estate photography flash?

lovecameras said:
Don't use flash. Use a fast lens or take long exposures.
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My experience says the same thing. Bring a tripod or monopod and reduce shutter speed. That being said, I do have the Olympus FL-600R and find it handy in certain situations. It's a good size for m4/3 gear.
 
My experience says use every trick/tool in the book.

Multi exposure blending and flash.

You want IMO any flash that has manual settings 1/64 through to full ideally fired from the camera on a radio reciever

I use pocket wizard radios and Quantum flash guns.

BOth products now have cheap knock offs.

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Yes going completely natural with photos and light may be easy and may get you bright pictures but they are also going to be bla looking and not very dramatic. Photography is a lot like shooting movies and one of the keys to Hollywood shooting good looking movies is the lighting. Beauty shots in photography is no different. I work for a global manufacturing company and my team shoots all the marketing material for the company. I handle all video and interactive media and my colleague handles all photography of our products. Under no circumstances would we ever consider to use natural light. I guess it all depends on how nice you want to make the real-estate look to get people interested.
 
No - bad photography make stuff look artificial, not the tools used.

Simply flash offers superb mass/power/cost versus the constant lighting used in motion picture photography.
 
lovecameras said:
flash makes it all look....artificial. Vendors generally don't like that tacky look. Natural is king.
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Like everything we do that all depends on how you use it. If you are talking a flash on top of the camera well then yes of course it will look artificial. The photo Dustylense posted is an example of using flash the right way. Its no different than lighting a movie. One could use a LED light on top of the camera but that would always look fake compared to a creatively well lit scene. Its all about professionalism and how much time one wants to spend lighting.
 
Ianscreations said:
We can all probably agree that the use of lighting (or not) all depends upon the subject/location :)
I shot this last month using my EM-1 with no use of flash. I'm sure I could have made it look better and been there twice as long using strategic lighting, but this client was looking for professional photography during a time that allowed very limited access time.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/120831993@N07/sets/72157651726630332
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One could argue that house has amazing lighting to begin with and doesn't need as much lighting assistance as some other homes could. Great job on those photos by the way.
 
All the power you can get - get a set of monolights if you don't mind carting them around, and an inverter for a powerpack if you're worried about wires snaking around in your shoot. Speedlights are also doable but you'll need quite a few, or learn to composite in post.
 
yslee said:
All the power you can get - get a set of monolights if you don't mind carting them around, and an inverter for a powerpack if you're worried about wires snaking around in your shoot. Speedlights are also doable but you'll need quite a few, or learn to composite in post.
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I have 6 odd elly flashes - hardly ever used.

Modern cams are clean at 800, qFlash or their knock offs are far faster to use, and have 4X the grunt of speedlights.
 
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