Interior Photography with Available Light:
Travel

Here's an ultra low-light picture I took for British Heritage magazine while profiling Dover Castle. It's the Battle of Britain's secret underground war room, complete with the original furnishings. If you can see it, I can photograph it.

Sometimes the telling detail can say more than the wide shot. While shooting a farm family on assignment for Reiman's Country Extra magazine, I found this hunting trophy in their living room, substituting for a hat rack. Nothing could tell the story of a country farm family better; I didn't move a thing.

Details can tell the story even in the wide shots. Here's the herb-drying basement of a restored plantation home in coastal North Carolina, with a basket of cotton framing the shot on the right side.

This final shot shows what I find so fascinating with received light interiors. This painting in an old mill shows brilliantly against the rich, golden glow of the stone wall. In fact, the spot of light on the wall is reflection from the back of the canvas!