My Technique to Photographing Your Home ListingThere is a multitude of different techniques that can be used to photograph a home and make it presentable. Unfortunately, there is a just as many ways to make a beautiful home look horrendous with poor technique. From using the different types of cameras from cell phones, point and shoots and DSLR's to the different techniques on lighting from using 1 exposure, multiple exposure fusion (HDR High Dynamic Range), 1 flash on camera or multiple flashes off camera. All of this equipment and lighting techniques are very relevant today because all are used in real estate photography by somebody either agent or photographer. Today I will be talking about the techniques that I currently use to make your home listing awesome. My equipment includes a professional DSLR camera with multiple high quality lens from wide angle to telephoto to be able to capture large and small spaces as well as those great detail shots. All of this is supported by a heavy duty tripod to give maximum clarity and sharpness. To light my scenes I use up to 4 flashes off camera which helps to accurately expose the interior and retain the window exposure. By using flash I am also able to accurately portray color and eliminate any color cast created by lamps and outdoor ambient light. To give you a better idea of my lighting techniques here are a couple of examples.
Base Exposure As you can see with this images we have a very high contrast situation where it would be impossible to balance the window exposure with the interior exposure without using either exposure fusion (HRD) or flash. For this scene I use multiple off camera flash units to help balance the window light with the interior light. I first setup a light on a stand from the right to help light the room as seen below.
Flash from Camera Right 1 Flash added from Camera Right By adding one flash from the right side of the image I have illuminated the whole scene and am on my way to balancing out my window light with my interior exposure. But I feel like the left side of the image is still a little too dark so I add another light from camera left to help balance out my whole scene.
Adding Flash from Camera Left
Final Image Final Image For my last example is a bedroom scene with the same lighting technique to bring out a nice balance between the window exposure and interior exposure.
Conclusion While photographing your listing I am using professional equipment as well as lighting techniques to make you home stand out over your competition. I prefer to use multiple flashes to better expose the scene while retaining color accuracy and nice balance of window and interior lighting. In a future post I will compare and contrast Exposure Fusion (HDR) and Multiple Flash setups and give you my reasons for choosing to use multiple flashes in my technique.
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