Using strobes with interior photography
Ok, so here are shots that I used to get my final image (also posted below).
1 was used as a base.
2 was used to get some details on chandelier
3 was used to remove softbox reflections
There was still a lot of small corrections but basically the setup for this shot was: 1 octabox on the left and one softbox on the right. If behind me there is a wall then I usually bounce off the wall but here the wall was far behind my back so I couldn't go for that solution.
I have also tried umbrellas but I have felling that octabox gives better results although I've never tried side by side comparison.
Most of interiors I do should show nice (sea) view so these are situations I just have to know how to deal with better than this. In this case the room wasn't that large but largeRoom.jpg is example of larger room (it's even bigger then on this photo, behind me there is still lot of space) and here I used 2 strobes and one speedlite to get this shot, but I ended up waiting for blue hour and then using strobes just as fill light.
KCook: No, I haven't tried playing with barn doors yet, I am not sure if I am going to like such small source light, it would give me sharp shadows on objects, I was even thinking to get larger octaboxes
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