Wednesday, September 17, 2008

How to Photograph Your Home


Apartment Therapy posted an entry with instructions on how to photograph your home. To me, their tips seem basic but I can see how it would help. I think they left out the most important tip - to use their own site, and encourage readers to reference other interior design sites or magazines for ideas. Best tip I have is to select the images you're really compelled to, and figure out how to recreate the shot. You'll teach yourself to see differently and strengthen your compositional skills.

For example, in this image, instead of shooting the sofa and windows dead on, the photographer was likely positioned at or near the corner of the rug. Just look at the lines on the ground. From this angle they were able to get a larger area of the room in the frame, and has also created some lovely leading lines.

Image from Desire to Inspire.

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