This interior has a lot of white furniture, high ceilings, and big windows. The impression one gets when entering the room is of “elegant lightness”, and this is what I wanted to show in the image.
I mixed natural ambient light from the windows and flash light, and I did this by finding a right balance between them, in order to make it look natural. Using only the ambient light was definitively not enough, as I wanted the view into the green garden to be seen. By making the whole image brighter without using any flash, I would have lost that nice detail, which is a part of the whole setting and is a nice contrast to the white of the interior.
The lightshaper I used was a Litepipe P, hidden in the right corner of the room. It was used vertically without reflector in order to have some direct light as well as some indirect light, which bounced into the corner of the room. A Softbox would not have worked the same way, firstly because the light of a Softbox is not 360° and secondly for space reasons (a Softbox is much deeper and needs more space).
The wooden frame of the image, a sliding door, also needed some additional flash light and this was achieved by an indirect P-70 reflector in the front room.
This picture is shot with a full frame DSLR camera at ISO 100 and a focal length of 35 mm. The exposure time was 1/3 s and the aperture f/ 8.
