Aaron, when you do interiors, do you find yourself sticking to one focal length?  I use a wide angle adapter which brings me to 22.4mm equivalent at the wide end.  I find myself staying with 22.4mm.  This allows me to use the same barrel distortion correction in Photoshop on every shot, I then can crop as necessary.  The bottom line is that it saves me a little time.

Does that 10-22mm lens give you much barrel distortion?  Your photos look like they've been tweeked some.  I'd like to know the typical process you go through in Photoshop.

Maureen, I like the night photo. It gives the house a look you could have never gotten during the day.  In order to give this shot different look, try a little earlier in the evening as Aaron said, turn on all the lights in the house so every window lights up, use a tripod and don't use the flash.  I think would like the result.

I've always shot with the pool lights on.  I really like the use of reflections from the pool you have shown.  Thanks for sharing.

This is the same house, but you can't even see the pool.  I just liked the sky in this one.

Jane, let me ask about substituting skies.  When the division between the sky and non-sky elements of the photo are well defined, such as in my previous post, it's not that hard to insert, but when you have a tree in the photo which you can see the "gray sky" through some of the leaves, I have had problems making it look natural.  What advise can you give me here?

I got to thinking about the possibility of lighting the front of the house during a twilight shot.  So I gave it a try with some halogen work lights.

What do you think?  Has anyone tried this?  How could I make this photo better?

Aaron, I was concerned about the lights being too bright and tried to figure a way to bring them down.  Since there are a total of 4 500W lights,(2 on each stand) I've got 4 steps there.  I could then get some 250W bulbs and then I will have several levels to use.  I'll let someone else figure out the possible combinations.  The shot here has all 4 500W lights on.  I tried one shot with one light from each stand, but I liked this one better.

My brother suggested purchasing some color balanced bulbs.  Does anyone know where I might find some?  I don't mind the yellow worklamps.  They give a fairly warm look.

Great photos Frank.  Most of the tips offered here will work for your V570 or any camera for that matter.  The 22mm (I thought it was a 23mm, but who's counting) is just about perfect for interiors.  DSLR users know the 18mm isn't as wide, that's why they use the 10mm end of a 10-22mm lens.  This would be a 16mm equivalent to 35mm film cameras.  I see you used a tripid for the exterior of the building.  I think that's the most important thing with these types of shoots.  I would stay away from the flash as much as possible.  If you must use a flash, try the slow sink (fill flash might be the same thing).  This will keep the shutter open longer to better saturate the photo.  The tungsten white balance settings will keep the interior lights from looking so yellow and create that rich blue look out the windows. It looks like to me you have it down.

I tried out some new techniques this past weekend.  I used my PAP gear and the work lights which helped to highlight the front of the house.  I think more skilled manipulation in Photoshop could yield a little better results, but overall I'm pretty pleased.

The change in this session over my first attempt is that I kept both work lights together.  In my first attempt, the worklights were spread out which gave me shadows going in two directions.  Keeping them together allowed me to vary the amount of light all coming from one source, eliminating weird shadows.