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Whether you want to capture your home, make images for a holiday rental site, help out with a house sale or simply create lovely architectural photos, interior photography is a great skill to learn. It can also be an enjoyable challenge for your camera and lighting skills.
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There are three key skills in interior photography. First there’s the composition. This isn’t just about picking the best camera angle and lens, it’s also about creating a clean, simple frame that shows the interior at its best. It might mean shifting the furniture, placing items in certain spots, or posing objects to create the most attractive whole.
Next is the lighting. If the ambient light is good enough, then you’ve got lucky. More often than not, the ambient light will be too dull to balance with window light, or it won’t show the place at its best. To get around this, we can supplement the ambient light with our own, by using flashes or other light sources. But we don’t necessarily need lots of expensive lighting kit. The beauty of it is, once our camera is locked off on a tripod we have the luxury to take our time and light each area of the interior separately, popping our flash in different spots until we’ve captured lovely lighting across the whole scene.
This brings us to the third key skill – image-editing. After shooting a series of frames while moving our light source around the room, we can bring everything together in Adobe Photoshop CC with simple compositing skills. Over the following pages we’ll explain how it’s done...
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