How to Use Flash for Interior Design Photography
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- There's no one-size-fits-all answer on how to use flash for interior photos, but in this video I go over some common scenarios and uses that I run into.
My name is Matthew and I'm an architecture & interiors photographer based in Kansas City.
IG @matthewaphoto - / matthewaphoto
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Your style and theories resonate so much with me. I’m tired of and can’t stand the HDR look that basically looks like a computer render, plastic, stale, and lacks any kind of character needed to accurately represent beautiful, interior designs and architecture.
IM SO GLAD I FOUND YOU!!!! Just booked a hotel client and was panicking! So stoked to take some awesome pics!
Are hotel clients easy to find?
Personal taste and style all good but maybe budget is a question too when you consider shooting 20 "brackets" and edit for days? Especially as a beginner when all of it takes ages.
Hey Matthew, very helpful description of using flash and stacking. I have a client who wants the flooring and cladding to be in focus, as it is usually reflective using a flash gives a lot of glare and reflections, is there any specific technique you would recommend for getting marble and granite part more in focus in the shot than any other object.
Really well done video - THANKS! You must have a TON of patience to put these things together.
Is there any chance you could sometime try a "Chinese lantern" style diffuser on the AD600? I'm asking because I recently saw someone use a collapsible Godox D50 of that type (20inch diameter when open - yipes!), and he managed to entirely light a good size room JUST RIGHT (my humble opinion) - virtually a finished product - in ONE FRAME, with window exposed right. He was using a AD400 (I have the 600). I know, crazy, but what a huge time saver that would be. I'll look for the video. Imagine handing the client your memory card and saying, "Here you go. Have a nice day." Ha - fantasy world for sure.
Thanks so much for your channel - so very helpful every time.
Did you ever find the video?
Love how you explained in the end! Thanks much for the tutorial.
Would love to see your post processing of the last images. Awesome shots and love your videos!
Hi Matthew. Thank you for all the content, it is inspiring and has helped me loads. I’m just wondering if you use a remote trigger to release the shutter on your camera or does your Assistant do it for you? Also, how do you review your images. Do you shoot tethered? Onto a screen or a laptop or even an iPad? Thanks again for all of your help with these videos man 📸
Just discovered your channel. I've watched 7 or 8 so far. Very helpful and great explanations!! thanks! Tod
Excellent work and informative video. Thank you.
How do you blend the photos together without getting you or the flash in the final image
Can you make an explanation video just for the last shot? , it looks very tricky and interesting
How do you source the white balance
Good tips🎉❤
Seeing this makes me thing I know nothing about shooting interiors 😅
Soo you don’t just bracket images and merge them in Lr to post process in Ps?
Nope. I have several other videos showing more specifically how I edit and process.
A photographer I frequently work with uses flash, but often so subtly that I'm often wondering why we set it up at all. Of course this means post work is pretty intensive in terms of color correcting. Personally, I've been wanting to go a little heavier on flash. Right now, all I have are a pair of AD200's-great lights, but not great for using with bigger modifiers. Would love to see a gear video breaking down which lights and modifiers you use... In this video I think I see you using a 400 and a 600-would I be able to get by with a 400 for most scenarios or do you find yourself using the 600 enough to make hauling the extra weight worthwhile? Thanks!
These look great - Our of curiosity, are you not a fan of using a polariser for reducing some reflections in areas of the images, and then blending these with the other images?
What flash soft box is it that you're using? I have an ad200 and would love to incorporate a soft box
Do you have any videos of you on location? Carrying out your flash photography techniques recorded?
Do you charge more for Shoot & Share bookings?
cheers matt
awesome tutorial as always man! I wish you went a little more into detail on the last example with how you shut the blinds above the sink to cut out the exterior light while you shot your flash frames. I would have liked to hear how you how you eventually shot with the blinds opened and masked them back in!
Great video! Very detailed and easy to understand. Thank you and keep up with the great works!
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Good video
My colleagues from Russia generally don't use flash when photographing interiors, they prefer natural light, however I use it sometimes, I don't like dirty windows with flare and unnecessary reflections! Thanks for your video!
Can i have his information
Excellent and informative presentation, Matt. Really nicely done! I appreciate your putting this together.
The one tool here I’ve never used is gels. Maybe it’s time for me to add that to my repertoire! I can see how they were helpful in that final shot.
Another awesome video! Lighting is a big question mark for me when shooting interiors so I love this topic and this video was super helpful!
Listen my Canon 5D Mark II definitely doesn’t shoot like that straight out of the camera. I’m a believer that the camera DOESNT make the shot, the photographer does but, I also think by the look of this I need to upgrade my camera.
What is he referring to when he says "lighten mode"?
It is a blending mode of the layers in Photoshop, it takes the lighter portion of each layer. It's great for such a job!
@@astrorickym5300 thank you! I'll have to try it out next shoot :)
Philosophy of natural lighting. Interesting.
Awesome video once again Matthew! Thanks for this!
Please make a video on interior photography without natural light when there is no any natural light source
Hi Matthew. Thank you for your amazing content. I can see you use sony and godox. So do I and I find the white balance, with flash, to be super warm not giving the real colors of the space. How do you handle that? Canon doesn´t have that problem using godox products. Thanks
Thank you for an insightful video.
Before your video, when shooting architecture, I had only considered the customer. The customers included the following:
Property Owner
Property Seller
Property Buyer
Architect
Builder
Interior Designer
Real estate agent
Publisher
Now, thanks to your video,, I also consider the photographer as a customer.
Matthew, thank you so much for sharing your professional skills. I do have a question, never do you mention how you determine/set the power level of the flash (trail and error, flash meter, slaved to camera exposure, etc)? You are correct, you style is A.L. (another level)! Keep up the great work!
By the way, are you using Lightroom HDR or Luminosity masks in Photoshop?
Sweet video as always my friend. Awesome photos! And the Plum cabinets in the kitchen is my favourite one too.
Hey do you think if you had covered the window with diffuser cloth, or diffusing shower curtains the lighting would have came out softer. How much softer will a diffuser cloth on the windows make the light? Is it a good idea?
Hi Matt,
Always look forward to your videos.
I may have missed it but do you have a video on focusing techniques for interior design?
Hi Matthew, thanks for the great videos. The last example, just made me understand why it is so difficult for me to have good photos of a specific medieval room with dark ceiling and beams. Best
Hey Matthew, this video helped a lot. thank you so much for sharing
Great tips. These tips are gonna help me for my upcoming shoot. Thanks a ton Matthew.
Great video! Thankyou so much. Honestly appreciate all your videos and the knowledge that you share with us all
Great always super to pick into others brain 🙂🧠
Well, it all makes sense when you break down. Appreciate it.
Which camera we can use in interior photography ?
Beautiful work man! Well explained too!
You made that plum kitchen look amazing! Definitely need to up my flash/blending game.
This was a fantastic video. Thank you for sharing this with us.
you shoot so beautifully and you get stunning homes!
Great work Matthew, can you please show us how you set your focus to get it sharp around the frame?
the last one is a great play, great job
Amazing work and your process is very well explained!
Hey Matthew, do you have a video that demonstrates editing an image similar to that last one you showed in the kitchen?
All my editing videos should be grouped together on a playlist
Matt Anderson!? Man As soon as I saw the intro I knew it was you. Haven't changed much! It's Will Armstrong. Glad to see you doing your thing in Photography. I've been in the space too for like 16 years. Crazy!
Hey Will!!! 😃 Awesome to hear from you. What kind of photography are you doing these days?
@MatthewAPhoto just did a real estate shoot yesterday. I'm not niched down. I basically do any photography that's not wedding photography🙄. If I had to pick a favorite, I'd say creative portrait (fantasy).
Hi! Random question not regarding lighting but on something else you mentioned briefly. You said one of the sets was for both a designer and general contractor. I was just curious if you or anyone else in the comments does this often and do you just have them split the fee together for the shoot? I do have a flat rate and then charge per image so I wasn’t sure how you or anyone else handles that? I’d love any advice 😊
I shoot for interior designers that do model homes. I am paid by the designers and if the home builder wants images I license them or just have them pay a fee for all for all of them. I don't charge per image - really charging for my time like a branded shoot.
Great work. Just curious, are you using Sony or Canon? What model?
I mostly shoot with a Sony A7r4
Excellent video. 👏
Great video again, thank you
this info is gold. thanks!
Great video
Great video as always! What lights/flash do you use?
I hope to make a video on all the equipment I use very soon.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Amazing!!!!!
just when I was needed to hop in the shower and get myself ready for work, THIS!! Here I shall remain haha
🤣 your personal hygiene can wait! 🤣
this is honestly mav favorite video of yours to date. I like how you covered the different wscernaios and their challenges
At the risk of sounding like a delicate flower, maybe take it easy with flambient/window pull/real estate snobbery. I don’t think it looks particularly good, and definitely not realistic, but it is what lot of paying clients want. I’m trying to learn anything that can help make me better. I stumbled across your account and I’ve binged a bunch. I’ve learned a good bit and I appreciate the work you put into the videos. However, the insinuation that there’s only one way to do it is off putting. I know this leaves me open counter criticism but I’m writing this out with the hopes of being constructive. It would be easier to just drop a dislike and look elsewhere but I’m hoping this doesn’t get taken the wrong way.