Location shooting can be very difficult depending on where you end up but bringing a studio to a location like the design center is usually much easier than most.

1. The guys at the Boston Furniture Collaborative are kind enough to keep a roll of 12′ seamless hung in the 20′ wide hallway for me most of the time
2. When you flip the light switch all of the lights go out
3. I have more than 150′ to back up and finally,
4. There are ample wall sockets to plug into with easy breaker (and restroom) access.

The list may seem strange to some but, combined with a hard working assistant, these things make life a vacation for a photographer. There is one window to worry about when you have to burn in ambient light, like I did for this piece:

…but it never gets direct light and it comes from a narrow spot in the hall that can easily be blocked.

Even with all of these great advantages to the location, it is still not a studio and requires a bit more post production than I would like.

Here is the original. (I have already done the basic LR adjustments)

And this is just for a side by side comparison, before and after post process.

Before

After

There are more photos from the shoot but this piece required the most effort because of the lack of a controlled studio. For this shoot I was also without an assistant and this was a rather large, shiny piece of very expensive furniture. All said and done it was a great day and the images came out beautifully.

Some locations can result in what seems like an endless effort in photoshop. The design center is thankfully not one of them but as I was walking down the 150 feet of hallway to turn out the overhead lights for what seemed like the 150th time of the day due to my lack of an assistant I couldn’t help but think of studio space and how much easier a controlled environment is.