Who I work with
Photography for Interior Designers
Interior photography for designers across Virginia, shaped by your vision, mine, or a mix, holding the room and the window view together.
Photographing a designed interior starts with whose vision leads. It might be yours, mine, or a combination of the two — that depends heavily on the client — and I work with you to find what will get the best result. From there, furniture gets moved and lights get switched on and off for the camera until the frame shows the room the way it was meant to be seen.
Holding the room and the view together
The technical problem indoors is dynamic range. A room your eye reads as balanced contains a spread of brightness a lesser camera cannot hold: correct for the walls and the windows blow to white; correct for the windows and the room goes black.
The 100-megapixel medium-format sensor I shoot on holds far more of that range in one frame, so the interior reads naturally and the view through the glass survives without a stack of bracketed exposures. Where a designer placed a window to frame something, that view is part of the design and worth keeping.
Lighting that looks like somewhere real
Daylight does most of the work, which makes time of day a design decision rather than a logistical one. I wrote software that forecasts conditions, so the shoot can be scheduled for when the space will look its best. When a room’s own lighting is uneven, inconsistent, or mixes colors, or when I want maximum quality, I build it up one source at a time — each fixture switched on and shot on its own, then composited.
Details as well as rooms
Wide shots sell the scheme; details sell the specification. Both are worth shooting, and the detail frames are usually what end up carrying a portfolio page.
Licensing
The designer, architect, contractor, and owner often all want the same photographs, so pricing is per company, and the more companies that license a shoot, the less each one pays. When four share it, each pays under half the single-company price. See pricing and licensing and usage.
I credit and link to the design team on every project page, and ask the same where the images appear on yours.
See pricing, or read what a shoot involves.