Architecture & Interior Photography
The right photographs can truly work to highlight the unique architectural style of any building or property. Whether you’re looking to sell a property, advertise and market your interior design company, or promote your architectural firm, you can benefit from the excellence in architecture photography services offered by Deborah Scannell Photography.
As a former Interior Designer of 23 years and now an established architecture photography professional, Deborah Scannell appreciates the nuances and features that make different structures stand out. And when you choose to work with Deborah Scannell Photography, you’ll benefit from collaborating with someone who values clients and strives to exceed expectations, no matter the project at hand, every time.
Deborah’s approach to shooting for the various trades are quite different. She believes that understanding your clients vision is paramount. This will accomplish a favorable outcome and produce images closely in alignment with the clients vision. Her methodology although specific and technical, is adjusted on each shot by shaping her lighting based on the various moods that are to be evoked. Knowing this going in to a shoot is crucial because this will help inform the final composite. Call her to schedule a consultation or for more information about our services.
Methodology
Post-production: This is as important as the shoot itself. I strive to “get it right in the camera”, but knowing how to process your images in a workflow that is fluid and consistent is vitally important. The color temperature, exposure, and mood should all be relatively consistent. I use Lightroom/Photoshop to accomplish. I also HAND-BLEND images together to capture the dynamic range of the room and scene, however, it is done light-handed to produce clean, crisp, eye-popping imagery with no cartoony, muddy, flashy and unnatural results.
Interior Pano’s: capturing the vertical rise of an interior to capture the entire double story from ceiling beams to floor, or an amazing stairway that needs to be told in its entirety. Each section is hand-blended together first, then the top and bottom sections are seamlessly joined using Photoshop.
An Exterior Pano: comprised of 3-8 vertically shot images of a mountain range scene, processed and stitched together in Photoshop for a smooth and seamless Panoramic. My equipment: I shoot mainly with the brand new, state-of-the-art, full frame, Sony a7 IV and Laowa Tilt-shift lenses as well as Canon TS lens for perspective correction. This lens enables the photographer to tilt or shift the lens so that we can have perspective control. I sometimes will shoot this into a pano, that once stitched together, does not look like a pano because it is not shot in horizontal mode like a typical panoramic shot. Kind of hard to explain in words but I am able to literally move the lens up and down or left and right without changing the cameras position at all. The lens actually moves off it’s axis from the camera. I use as many lights of various power to craft the lights and bounce them in various ways to light the scene. When done right, the result is an image that does not look like it is lit, which is what I am after. I do not like “Flashy” results, only a well lit scene to make it look as natural as possible and knowing how, when and where to put your lights is key.
Twilight Capture: This is an 1-2 hour endeavor on site. It starts a few hours prior to sunset. I start shooting and continue all through the sunset, light painting the house when the ambient level decreases. At the end, when it is dark, I shoot my final brackets. In post all the images – up to 50, are merged and hand-blended into one final image pulling in the perfect amount adjusted color of the glow from the interior window lights. All of the frames are layered in in Photoshop and the composited into one final image. The end result is spectacular and dynamic.