Professional Interior Photography
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When shooting interior photography, there’s often a huge range of light in a room. From the light outside to the darkest corners of a room. Often it’s more than your camera can capture in one shot. Bracketing is your friend here. Make sure you bracket at least a second exposure that’s a bit darker. Like that, you can soften the brightness of the light and keep the lighting looking even.This means you’re taking a normal exposure, a shot 2 stops underexposed, and one 2 stops overexposed. This exposes your photo for the highlights in the room. Your raw photo might look dark, but you’ll be able to brighten it up when you edit without creating blown-out highlights. The purpose of it all, is to merge all of these layers, and when it’s done well, you end up with a perfectly lit shot of the room. A professional interior photographer will be able to help you bring out the beauty, style & soul of your interior design.
You’re flipping through a commercial ID magazine or scrolling through your Instagram feed. Gorgeous interior photography catches your eye. But architectural or interior photography is different than real estate photography. Part of it is because there’s more time and energy put into each part of the process, including post-production. This is usually the job of an experienced interior photographer.
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Keep your verticals vertical. Our brain is capable of realising that doors are vertical even if we see them from an angled view, but the camera is not. Using a tripod and a tripod head with bubble levels makes it easier to keep the lines straight. Most cameras have an electronic level, but not all. Even then, some only work for the horizon line, and don’t show tilt. There’s also a question of tolerance too. I find a little hot shoe bubble level to work great, and you see exactly when the camera is level, both side to side and up and down.
When you are doing a series of professional photos in one single interior, shoot them from the same height. It creates a more balanced overview of the space, and that’s a lot easier on the eye going through the photos. Otherwise, the viewer will feel like he or she is hopping up and down through the room when looking at the pictures. This means you can keep the camera aimed out straight to keep the walls vertical.
While the perspective distortion you get can be corrected in post-production, it’s much easier to get it right in camera. That is why prefer some interior photographers like to hold their camera at chest height, between the ceiling and the floor. That way, you will look over the table and countertops. This is another reason to use a tripod as well. Is there a lighting feature that you want to show in photos, such as recessed lighting? That’s the only time that you’ll want to consider having lights on for interior design photography.
Light bulbs cause terrible shadows and colour casts. These will appear on walls, floors, and furniture. It’s distracting and takes away from the actual interior design elements. You’ll also want to do several bracketed shots at varying exposures. That way, you can layer them for a subtle natural-feeling HDR final image when photo editing. Use natural light whenever possible. Of course, there are situations when there is no light entering a room, So bring down the dynamic range so you can use bounced flash to fill in the shadows.
An experienced interior photographer will flash at the ceiling and walls behind, it can lessen the shadows in the area in front. It’s possible to do this on-camera, but it works well off-camera too. You can even just hold the flash in your hand pointed at the ceiling. Light has to come from natural directions and flash disturbs that feeling.
