[GH85Carrera]

If you really want to see the difference from a real professional photographer and everyone else, look at food photos. A friend of mine specializes in food photography for print advertisements as TV commercials. It is expensive and time consuming to make it look really good.

The same thing goes for interiors. One of my former customers shot for Architectural Digest and other top level architectural magazines. He would take all night to shoot a house, often over the course of a week. He would go around and replace each bulb to be the correct brightness and color temperature. If a bulb was too dim in an area, he would shut off the other lights and let that one area get more exposure. His average exposure time was several minutes up to 20 minutes. That way you can stop down the lens for more depth of field. About the only time he shot in the daylight was for the rooms with big outdoor views. He often had to use huge sheets of color correcting mylar to keep the outside the proper color temp for the film. He almost never shot daylight film, it was always tungsten balanced 4x5 transparency film. Now days it is just a button push on the camera.

With modern digital cameras the difference between the top professional’s results is something you will see, but the majority of customers will never notice it. It will be “good enough” and a LOT cheaper. Professional photography is a very tough business anymore.