The Old Estate House
Here is one of our work interior photography jobs for estate agents.
This particular home is at Bretton, basically near the West Yorkshire Sculpture Park just off the M1 near Wakefield.
It was the office for the Bretton Estate where you went to pay your rent and all the documents are stored. Because of that, it is full of huge rooms and iron-doored cupboards on the walls, a very impressive entrance and location right next to the road you.
Flambient Photography?
In this set of images, everything was taken with the 17mm tilt Shift lens to keep the walls vertical and get the maximum viewing angle of the rooms, using the flambient lighting technique.
Why Flambient?
In a nutshell, traditional “ambient light” photography suffers from the ambient light in the room being dictated by the colour temperature of the bulbs (usually Orange) and the light coming in from the window being very different (usually a cold blue look).
Flash
We get the correct colours by using Flash, which is usually bounced off a white ceiling and fills the room with pure white light. Correct coloured light means the so the wallpaper and furniture all have the right colour.
Ambient
However, flash-filled rooms look sterile and fake, almost like a showroom, and don’t feel very homely – not ideal when selling homes. Ambient light tends to be soft, shadows have feathered edges, and light from windows looks natural, but it’s the wrong colour and boy is it hard to get the view outside looking good this way (lots of editing in post needed).
So using the flambient technique, from Rich Baum in California, we do both Ambient and Flash to get the best of both worlds. In post-processing, we blend the two together to get a natural look with the right colours – it’s definitely more time-consuming but a very pleasing result.
We also did lots of detail shots, which are close-ups and creative angles using different lenses, usually the 70-200mm with wide apertures, and the exterior was photographed with the drone from all angles, All the shots here are the flambient look from, the 17mm TEe lens.
