As soon as I stepped into this property, I just knew the session was going to happen without a glitch. The late afternoon light was perfect, the interior staging was flawless, and the home itself was just gorgeous.
I thought I’d share my favorite from the session:
This was a great property! The contemporary styling was such a refreshing visual experience from the traditional staging and theme of a lot of homes I photograph.
The orange dining room had to be my favorite, following by the ultra-clean tones and textures of the kitchen.
At last! Spring season is finally showing up and exterior shoots are looking all the more lively.
Spring is one of my favorite seasons to shoot exterior architecture because, at least here in Colorado, the Sun’s position is just perfect for dramatic but not overly-bright light throughout the day.
Here’s a recent exterior from a shoot I just wrapped up. Enjoy.
I’m finally back in the office with enough time to post this quick entry and some shots from this week’s recent sessions. The photos below were from a gorgeous home that was perfectly staged. Everything just worked out–the lighting, the layout, etc.
If you attended my HDR talk last month, you might recall that I use HDR techniques extensively for my real estate imagery. 1) This provides me with a solution to blowing highlights or clipping shadows 2) Avoids the hassle for both the client/home owner and myself of dragging in a bunch of lighting equipment.
HDR images don’t have to possess the “HDR look” and can be quite effective at pulling detail where needed, or avoiding clipping in undesirable aspects. Here are three examples below (higher resolution shots and some more details to come later this week!).
Enjoy…
With all the crazy March snow storms Denver has had this past week, it was an excellent turn of conditions for today’s photo shoot. The light was great both inside and out. Here are two favorites:
Ok, I don’t have any behind-the-scenes shots–I was working solo today–but for a little info about the photos…
If you’re wondering, “Are these HDR?”, the answer is absolutely yes! Although they don’t have the giveaway HDR “look,” as we discussed in the HDR talk this past month, the mere fact of the images lacking any blown highlights, and so much detail across the entire tonality is the giveaway. And that’s the fun of HDR imagery–it still looks 100% real, but captures detailed otherwise impossible.
Situations I often encounter in interior/property photography is mixed lighting and varying color temperatures. Other than shooting with all the interior lights off, working with only ambient (i.e. window) light and making the home look like it doesn’t have working electricity, the only option is to shoot with the lights on and deal with the color “mixture”. Sure you could bring strobes, gel them with CTOs and CTBs, but that’s not the point here.
Sometimes the lighting mixture doesn’t show up all that bad and can be quickly dealt with in Photoshop. A little desaturation here, a little color adjustment layer there, and viola! But however long you get away with that, one day a shot is going to sneak up on you with a mixture the usual tricks just can’t handle.
And that, readers, is where my previous book suggestion post comes in. The LAB color space will revolutionize your correction and post-production techniques when this type of situation shows up. Dive in and get a copy of “Photoshop LAB Color” and find out the tricks the book has to offer, or look for one of my next postings showing some of my own tricks for handling tricky color lighting problems.
Wrapped up the week photographing a recent kitchen remodel and captured some amazing shots during this early morning session. Denver just had a snowstorm, so the details outside, including the trees and foliage were rather bright, but this just amplified the flood of gorgeous natural light into the room. Check out this one shot from the session.
Was busy this weekend with a property shoot at an absolutely amazing home. The kitchen was gorgeous and just sparkled in-person and in the photographs. Here’s a capture that turned out to be one of my favorites.