Interior Design
Many of you who read this blog may know that I am an Interior Designer by day. It is an interesting job and very involving, but also richly satisfying. I am employed by a company called Image 360 designs, at the risk of sounding cocky, I shall say it, we do great stuff. Recently, my photography finally met design when the boss asked me to do some shots, actually, I insisted to. I don’t regret it at all.
This is just a small showcase of designs we have done that I have shot. More shall come soon. This opened my foray into Interior design shooting.
Technical details:
For the photographer’s, you know how hard it is to do Interior Design shots because of the varying light in the room. The windows bring in a harsh light but the corners are extremely dark so what to do.
1. You can shoot using strobes to illuminate the dark areas and even out the light.
2. I don’t have any strobes so I had to use bracketed shots. Shot 3 exposures from -2, 0, +2 and merged them as HDR on photomatix pro but chose very subtle settings so as to leave them looking natural. That was the final photo has all ranges well exposed for the very dark & very bright areas
UPDATE:
Unfortunately I had to remove the photos that were previously here due to client requests. What can a man do? I am sorry for that. The future though, is full of opportunity so watch this space, more is definitely coming.
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I think today you’ve outdone yourself…wonderful shots! The interior decor is on point too.
Hold up!
I know the first two shots are from Image360. How about the other 2?
Thanks millie
@Wiselar those are serviced apartments called ‘Reata Apartments’
wow!! Muts, the interior design is on point!! Are these places in kenya? if so i really should think about contracting you guys to do some interior design for us….
Thanks Winnie, yes this is Kenya. The top red is our office. The bottom 3 are apartments near Valley road NPC
Muts,
Congratulations first for having that eye of an experienced photographer, no question your photographs are Architectural journal Material. Good!
The choice of color especially in the office space is daring but good. The Interior space of the lounge is well done. I like the simplicity of the decor, the choice of furniture complements the focus on the space i.e is the t.v, the headroom appears big and thus gives the room air! Good.
Now I just wish in your work we could also have a chance to experience the exterior of these beautiful spaces.
good shots of places I definitely would want to chill out in
the designs r just AWESOME!! how come i haven’t cn a haos that looks half as gud as that one?
Thank you. Maybe you aren’t going to the right houses. You need to visit the ones we have designed :-)
do they really make haoses like that?u have to some kinda of guru to do that.rit?
Well not really but some do. Like us obviously, it is not common though, I must admit. Not necessarily due to lack of ideas, maybe money by client. If you go to an architect or Interior Designer that are qualified, you shall get that quality of work
Sweet website, I hadn’t come across mutuamatheka.wordpress.com previously during my searches!
Continue the great work!
hey,i would like to know what is your opinion about making a small house look big?