Controversy in Real Estate & Architecture Photography! (you're probably guilty)
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- Yes it's a re-upload. Had a couple issues with the original video and needed to make some adjustments.
Lights on? Karate chopped pillows? Mix Daylight & tungsten light? One-point-perspectives are overrated? I asked photographers on Instagram to give me their unpopular options and hot takes around real estate and architecture photography. Wow, the responses were all over the place.
Here's my opinions as well as several other photographer's who attended the 2023 PMRE conference in Las Vegas. Enjoy!
My name is Matthew and I'm an architecture & interiors photographer based in Kansas City.
IG @matthewaphoto
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I'm glad that people dislike the word flambient - I've always hated it! However, it's really just compositing with flash and ambient frames and photographers were doing that for years before someone came up with the silly name. I think people who don't like flambient probably don't like the cookie-cutter way it's utilised by some photographers.
Re: number of photos - I've managed to curate a bunch of clients who just accept however many photos I deem fit for the job. At the top end (maybe up to 60 or 70 photos) it is always for a high end home with lots of rooms where my client wants their client to know that no corner was cut and there are plenty of options of photos for the portals, PR and social media. My clients are savvy enough to know that even if I supply 70 photos they're not going to put more than 15 to 20 on the portals.
Three walls - I'm suprised my good pal TC is anti-three walls! Thinking it's a bad thing makes no sense to me. Many one point perspective shots show 3 walls and I can't see any logical sense why this would be a bad thing simply because you pan the camera. I'm glad I'm not constrained by something so arbitrary!
Shooting with only a 24mm and 17mm - yeah, this seems silly to me. I carry a 24 TS-E but rarely use it as it's a bit wide for my tastes. I also use a 14-35 which I use a lot, albeit mostly at the tighter end. I also find that when I switch to my 24-70 for my first detail shot of a job I will be unlikely to swap back to the 14-35 for the rest of the shoot. I guess I do have something approaching a pathogical dislike of anything approaching ultra wide-angled interior shots.
Lights off is my default but if the lighting design is really well done, or if I don't wish to 'cheat' too much on a space that will always have poor natural light, or for a creative choice I'm happy to put lights on. For my tastes you can't beat natural light and shadows unencumbered by electric lighting.
I don't find home photography boring, period. There are always enough creative challenges to make any job enjoyable for me.
An enjoyable vid and good to see some old faces who I've not had much chat with for a few years! Thanks Matt A.
Great feedback from other photographers!
Matthew, Man this was great. Laughed my butt off. Thank you and please do more. Thank you for keeping this light and funny.
Tons of insight and entertainment crammed into 12 minutes. A brilliant video. Would love more like this. Cheers 🍻
All great videos Matthew! Very insightful and educational. Keep up the great work!
Great video Matthew, we have the same scenarios here in Sydney Aus 😂
Mathew, this was really fun. Should show it to some of my clients, specially one 😂
Cheers from Italy. If you ever end up here give a call. Will be fun to chat
What a great video! Super informative and fun. I'd love to grab a beer with some of those guys. IMO the mix of opinions really shows that there really isn't a one size fits all formula for the work, which is great. I'm glad that there was a discussion about flambient - I learned it but increasingly have felt it's not worth it in most scenarios. The other thing with it, as a lot of these people said, it just doesn't look good most of the time. People are lazy with their editing of it a lot of the time and when you can tell, it just looks BAD. You also really have to have the time for it on the shoot itself
Is this a REPOST from last month? 0:27
That's was entertaining. 😂
Please explain the proper meaning of flambient? Is this ceiling pops and window pulls, bleh! Or is this adding flash to create interesting lighting, balanced color, and mood, like most of us do, then adding in ambient light for the realism? The word is crap, bit at its roots I think describes what most of us do.
Actual flambient is the second definition you gave. I've been SHOCKED, though, at the number of 8-figure property listings I've seen that are just a photo with a ceiling pop. Absolutely insane
Sorry brother but good flambient the the holy grail change my mind 😂
and what about high key interior photos? Who is doing that!
Isn’t this a reupload?
Yeah. Had some issues with the original video file. Needed to make some tweaks.
@@MatthewAPhoto I am glad you did I would've msised it otherwise, good, no, great job on this. Photographers are 100 times cooler than architects, I love it so much!
Editing blue skies in the window pull photo’s and doing that on every photo. You can literally see that it is fake