Shooting real estate interior photography requires lots of experient with a keen eye, a dedication to understanding lighting, and an ability to make even the most lackluster rooms feel bright, inviting, and livable. Today, Nice Color will share with you some powerful tips to capture well-lit, sharp and beautiful interior images.
1. Real Estate Interior Photography should Focus on the Details
Interior image shooting decide weather your propety is worth this price or not. So it plays an important role in creating the soul of the house. Interior photography shoots are very collaborative and detail-oriented. You need to spend enough time with meeting the client and styling too. This great attention to detail allows it to demand higher rates. The end goal is always to produce eye-catching interior photographs.
2. Work With brackets of images
One of the great ways to take beautiful real estate interior photography is using HDR brackets of images. First of all, you should take 3-4 bracketed shots to get all the details of the photo. This way, you can layer them for a subtle natural-feeling HDR final image when photo editing.
Especially with window pull image, you need to prepare bracket of exposures for any shots that include windows. This gives you darker frames that you can use for showing the view outside the windows. And middle exposures that help to balance out the bright highlights.
3. The help from Live View
Live View is a neat function that uses the LCD screen to display exactly what the camera sees at any time. This tool is available in the majority of modern digital cameras, though additional functions or modes might vary from camera to camera. Thanks to Live View now you can preview the image in advance. It is a efficient way for you to save more time with capturing test shots.
It’s worth noting that shooting via Live View and shooting via the electronic viewfinder offer two very different experiences, so even if you own a mirrorless camera with an EVF, I’d recommend trying out both options. You never know which you’ll prefer!
4. Use wide-lens (but not too wide)
When it comes to an interior photography, then you should choose a wide-angle lens. I recommend it should be in the 16-24mm range on a full-frame camera will work great.
Thanks to using a wide-angle lens, it makes rooms look spacious and it also helps reduce distortions and improve color, clarity, and sharpness. As a result, you can create professional-grade interior shots that are bold and detailed.
5. Use one- or two-point perspective
With real estate interior photography, normally, professional use one-point perspective and two-point perspective to guide their work.
A one-point perspective involves shooting so the sensor plane is parallel to a wall. It’s a great way to set the scene, and it can show various walls leading toward a point in the distance. By using just a vanishing point, a horizon line and a series of straight lines, you can create a realistic and complex rendering, which looks like it’s 3D, in a number of simple steps.
When you take a shoot into a corner then a two-point perspective angle should be better. It’s a nice way to show lots of details and emphasize the cohesiveness of a room. As the name suggests two point perspective takes advantage of two vanishing points rather than just one. This allows for more flexibility with a scene as the front plane of the object does not have to face the viewer directly.
Using a Tripod
A tripod is one of the most necessary tools that professional real estate photographers choose to get high-quality HDR images. In real estate interior photography, a tripod is a portable device used to support, stabilize and elevate a camera, a flash unit, or other videographic or observational/measuring equipment. All photographic tripods have three legs and a mounting head to couple with a camera.
A tripod gives you higher and lower angles that are difficult to reach when working with a hand-held. Photography is easier when you have a tripod set at a center column, and you can move it from 0 degrees to 180 quickly. Your camera can directly face the ground or at 90 degrees if you want that angle.