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Interior Photography in Richmond, Virginia
Interior photography for architects, designers, and building owners across Virginia, shot on 100MP medium format to hold both the room and the window view.
Interiors are the hardest thing a camera is asked to do. A room that looks balanced to your eye contains a range of brightness a lesser camera cannot hold: correct for the walls and the windows blow out to white; correct for the windows and the room goes black.
The 100MP medium-format sensor I shoot on holds far more of that range in one frame, so a room and the view through its glass can come back in a single capture without a stack of bracketed exposures. That view is usually the reason the window is where it is, and keeping it keeps part of the design.
The work behind it
When a room’s lighting is uneven, inconsistent, or mixes colors, or when I want maximum quality, I light it one fixture at a time. The room starts dark, with every fixture off, and each light — a lamp, a downlight, a cove — is switched on and photographed on its own, then those frames are composited so every source reads at the intensity the room actually wants. That is a different thing from bracketing for dynamic range: it is about which lights are on and how hard, not about rescuing blown highlights.
Furniture gets moved and moved back. Verticals are kept vertical. On the rare space with a genuinely enormous range — an atrium, a lobby with a fully glazed wall — HDR is still there as a fallback, but it is the exception now, not the method.
Where the light comes from
Time of day matters more indoors than people expect, because the sun decides what the windows are doing. I wrote software that forecasts when conditions will suit a given building, which means the shoot can be scheduled for when the space will actually look its best rather than whenever the calendar had a gap.
Recent interior work
Commissioned interiors include both Dominion renovations in Glen Allen, the VCU Technology Operations Center on West Broad, and healthcare at Virginia Physicians for Women in North Chesterfield — work across Virginia, not only Richmond.
See more in the office and healthcare portfolios, or read what a shoot involves.