Interior Architecture
Architectural and Design photography is a pleasant polar opposite to shooting action sports like skiing. On one of my most recent ski shoots the temperature must have been below -20 Celsius plus wind. When it’s that cold batteries stop functioning, and they need to be warmed up on location; unfortunately the warmest and best place to heat a battery on your body also happens to be the most uncomfortable. I don’t think I need to go further down that road for you to pick up what i’m saying. I was alternating between freezing the only parts of my body that aren’t already cold and hanging out the side of a parkade 20 feet above the frozen ground to get the angle I was looking for.
Compare a chaotic shoot like that to interior architectural work; indoors, warm, dry, very little risk to my own well being. It’s quite a luxury. That said getting the shot still isn’t a simple or easy matter, especially when you have a bit of photography OCD like myself; making the pictures as close to perfect as you can in camera. Shooting interior design requires many tries, tweaks and adjustments to capture great photographs which really flatters the location.
This is a great set of pictures! The other day I had to shoot a small store, and I was facing huge problems to pull something off I liked.
Looking at the shadows of the first two pictures, it looks like you’re using available light only, which seems hard to believe, regarding the quality of the images.
Are you willing to share a bit more about how you got those images?
Thanks tob, I couldn’t go through how i made the pictures in detail, it would be worth many a blog post by itself.
The parts you don’t see of these shots;
Polarizer; glare is evil. kill it with a polarizer
Skrims; big (7 foot by 5 foot) white or black cloth panels are hidden and used in these shots to remove or add light very subtly.
multiple exposure; light balance in a room might look good to the human eye, but there is too much brightness for the camera to capture in one frame. to fix this i may take as many as 5 frames, and only 1 has a light on (example last shot the lamp beside the couch would have been brutally blown out)
Having done a bit of architectural work myself, I agree it is rarely “easy” but you did a magnificent job!
@Reuben Krabbe
Thank you for sharing the information. I did use a polarizer, and multiple flashes, mostly in umbrellas or against white walls. But the scrims are indeed a very good idea, especially the black ones. Definitely gonna get some! Thanks again for the hint!
Great work!!!!
looks good, can’t wait to see mooooore!!!
Beautiful.