I guess there are many reasons why you might want to photograph your house, although, sure, if you want to do it exhaustively it’s because you want to sell it, rent it, show it, or because your best friend knows how good he is. you’re with that camera in your hand and you want to ask for help to do it?
Anyway, since you’re going to do it, you’d better do your best, because, especially if you’re trying to sell it, you’ll know that houses go through your eyes. Don’t even bother thinking about a house that doesn’t have pictures or a house that doesn’t look good. So, let’s take some tips to get the best performance out of your home for some reason.
- Yes.
- It’s not very photogenic.
- But I decided to start with this tip.
- For fear of saving it for last.
- Would you have already done all the other tips to the letter.
- And would you have to do it again? essential for an image to be pleasing to the eye.
- So forget about unmade beds.
- Shoes on the floor.
- Books piled up in any way.
- Take a look at the rooms before you go to work and analyze them.
- Rearrange.
- Hide? you have to make everything pleasing to the eye.
Find out (if it’s not your home) when you’ll have more and better natural light, and go at that time, the photographs should be based mainly on this type of light, trying to make it as homogeneous as possible.
Since natural light is much more powerful than any light you can have at home, to try to compensate for the exterior and interior try to turn on all the lights of the house, if the difference between the outside and the interior is still very noticeable (burnt windows or too dark interior), try pulling the curtains to act as light diffusers.
Since we are looking for the best possible image quality in the image, I advise you to lower the ISO to a minimum, usually the cameras place this value between 100 and 125, this is where they work with superior image quality, avoiding the noise they generate. higher values can produce.
As a general rule what we want is that the piece we want to photograph is clear and clear, for this we pretend to have as much area of the image as possible focused, and the way to do it is through openness. In this case, we recommend that you close the opening at an approximate value of f/8 of/11. At this point, you will have enough depth of field to make everything clear.
The use of a tripod in indoor photography is almost mandatory for several reasons, two of which derive from the previous two points: A minimum ISO means that the sensitivity of the sensor is quite low, that is, you have little light, which forces you to look for it. through another of the exposure triangle variables (speed, ISO, aperture). The logical thing would be to open the diaphragm so that more light penetrates you, but unfortunately this causes you to lose depth of field, and we have already commented that you are not interested; Instead, you must close the iris to get the largest focus area of the scene. Therefore, we have only one variable left: the speed of the shutter. And the only way to get more light through speed is to keep the shutter open longer to allow more light to enter, which means that any kind of movement that occurs when the shutter is open will be part of your image, that is, you will have a blurry photo?
If you still do not know what white balance is I recommend this article where it explains it perfectly, in short, the white balance serves to compensate for the different shades of the different lights, that is, each light has the ability to dye the scene with a color, although many times we can not see it with the naked eye. The white balance compensates for these tones, leaving the image with a neutral tone.
and forget about white balance, aren’t you sure what RAW is?Don’t worry, here’s all the information you need about it.
Are mirrors, windows and other reflective surfaces very dangerous?Be careful not to inadvertently reflect on any of them. To fix this, the easiest way is to find a new angle or a new perspective.
If you have it, this is the perfect time to talk about it, wide angle lenses have the peculiarity of having a very open angle, that is, they allow you to frame a greater proportion of the scene than any other lens. what we want is to show the house as clearly as possible, this goal will be of great help.
Unfortunately, not everyone is lucky enough to have a great angle between their businesses, but don’t worry, are all the gaps filled with a little imagination? To get the widest possible angle of the scene, it is best to try shooting from the corners of the room.
At least in general scenes, ideally show the scene from the level of your eyes. This will make it more natural for the viewer. Then you can (or should) improvise other angles and points of view to complement your images in a more artistic way if you feel like it.
Do you pay special attention to the lines of the door frames, windows, paintings, paintings?A crooked line can completely spoil the scene. Hashing and contrapage accentuate this effect, trying to keep the camera at a right angle.
Generally, we do not recommend using the camera’s built-in flash, that’s no exception. The light is hard, you can’t direct it, flatten the image and change the colors, in images of this style you will only get a foreground probably too exposed and a background too dark, if you want to use it as an extra flash to compensate for the natural and interior light of certain details, do it, otherwise it is better to keep it closed.
Once you have your wonderful general images, focus on finding a corner or a comfortable and photogenic detail that enhances the beauty of the home, you can buy flowers, put the table well, photograph interesting furniture, etc.
In all these architectural or landscape images in which you have time to plan and move around the scene, a good composition is fundamental, the composition balances the image and makes it pleasing to the eye, do not hesitate to move or move a piece of furniture. (if you can), looking for balance in the image.
With these tips and your own art, I’m sure the next time you photograph a house, the photos will be worthy of the Ikea catalog. Take the test and tell us? Oh, and as always, you’re doing us a big favor if you post it on social media so someone else can benefit from this information. Greetings and the next one?