Do you guys take more photos inside or outside?

It's all about the light right ... after some yrs I am looking at getting some lights to take some general photos of friends and family. No fashion or modelling types however ...

 

I know just a few that does a bit more of macro and food stuff, chit chatting along at cafes and restaurants, meet ups etc ..

 

Do you guys take more photographs inside or outside? Inside is inside a studio, a building, a church, a mall, a hall, cafe, indoor gymnasium etc ...

 

 

Cheers.

Both. I often use natural light, even indoors. Light coming in windows can be wonderful, almost like a soft box. It can also be unflattering, so you gotta be careful. If you place your subject in a good position relative to a window, you can get some very nice pictures. You can always add a bit of fill flash as needed to deal with shadows.

 

Outdoors, I just go around the city with people I want to shoot, scouting out interesting locations. Sometimes the lighting situation can be challenging, but challenging is good.

 

For me, no, it's not all about the light, though I understand what that means and why light is important. For me it's all about the personality and a story I can tell about the person I'm photographing. The light serves that!

It's a hobby for me and I'd rather not invest the money, time, or energy into lights. I have a decent bounce flash but that's about it. That said modern cameras have gotten pretty good at dealing with low light and I've invested in some faster lenses so often times the existing light is sufficient, - even for film.

 

I live in a cold climate so a lot of life happens indoors. At the same time, the changing seasons makes for excellent outdoor photography. I take a lot of pictures both inside and out.

I prefer outside natural light over a studio or indoors any day.

I shoot waaaay more outdoors. However, I just received 10 rolls of Kodak P3200 film, so I'll be doing some indoor shooting in the weeks to come.

If I'm shooting for fun I prefer outdoor work at the right time of day but if it's for hire I'm often indoors so have the lighting for both.

 

Rick H.

I just returned from a week long trip to Hawaii. After preliminary editing, I count a total of 714 photos, of which 5 were taken indoors. 254 of the total were taken underwater. So, I guess that I have a strong preference for outdoor photography.

Maybe the question should be: do you spend more time editing indoors than you do photographing outdoors.

It's all about the light right ... after some yrs I am looking at getting some lights to take some general photos of friends and family.

 

It can be a useful tool. I do both flash and natural light photography. I have done it professionally and for friends and family. I wouldn't consider not having speedlights shooting a wedding or event. Good light used correctly can allow you to produce great shots. You don't need flash all the time, but there are times it is highly desirable and times it is necessary to produce acceptable images. There are even times you will use combinations of natural and artificial light. There is a bit to learn about color temperature and mixed temperatures of light, speedlights, gel packs, soft boxes, bounce, high speed sync, first and second curtain flash. There are so many possibilities. It is a great tool.

 

It may not be all about the light, but the light is really important. :) Good for you expanding your photography skills.

 

Have fun.

I photograph about equally indoors and outdoors. I'm with Fred on the light, its more about the situation and the story when photographing people. The light is a part of it, so I almost never use flash unless I'm shooting an event and there is literally very little light in the room. In that case I use bounce flash from the camera mounted flash off the ceiling. Even in the film days, I would shoot in a living room with lamp light with Tri X with the general rule: 1/30 sec wide open (f 1.4 with the 50mm lens). Check out my 70s folder to see how that turned out. Nowadays, with digital, shooting indoors at iso 3200 is my standard with no real loss of image quality due to noise/grain, and that gets better with each generation of sensor in the cameras.

Indoors in Winter, because I hate cold grey weather, and outdoors the rest of the year. I had lights, but threw them out years ago when I moved. Now it's mostly just light from windows or lamps, etc. I may buy some new lights next year as Winter here is quite long especially this year.

When I shoot inside, I too prefer 'natural' light.

When I shoot inside, I too prefer 'natural' light.

 

Hmm... why is Vincent

cutting a hole in the

ceiling...?

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Hmm... why is Vincent

cutting a hole in the

ceiling...?

Actually, skylights aren’t great, since all the light comes from above, which can be very unflattering. I find windows/doors more often to be better sources of indoor natural light, with exceptions, of course. :)

Maybe 50/50. I seem to be ok with HP5 at 800 indoors with good light. No flash.

Outside, by a large margin.