Digital shooting and postproduction have made a day shooting architectural interiors vastly more productive. Case in point: A series of custom workstations in an empty but elegant office suite photographed here for Golub and Company's 225 West Washington property for a short-run sales piece aimed at potential high-end tenants.
Starting with an existing light shot to establish what the actual room light looked like, additional captures of the same scene were made to show the woodwork in the best light, as well as lighting the hallway on the other side of the high decorative grate to open up the space. The circular flourescent bulbs were then removed from the brass uplights and the scene reshot without their blue color cast on the ceiling.
The various captures were then reassembled in post production, keeping the lighting open and bright. The glow of the brass uplights was recreated digitally without their color cast, and various details were retouched to clean up any clutter.
Once the image was completed, it was uploaded to an ftp server for immediate client download. Shooting time for the room itself was about an hour, with postproduction another hour. This job was delivered the same day it was shot.