How to Use Flash for Interior Design Photography

How do you source the white balance

Do you have any videos of you on location? Carrying out your flash photography techniques recorded?

At the risk of sounding like a delicate flower, maybe take it easy with flambient/window pull/real estate snobbery. I don’t think it looks particularly good, and definitely not realistic, but it is what lot of paying clients want. I’m trying to learn anything that can help make me better. I stumbled across your account and I’ve binged a bunch. I’ve learned a good bit and I appreciate the work you put into the videos. However, the insinuation that there’s only one way to do it is off putting. I know this leaves me open counter criticism but I’m writing this out with the hopes of being constructive. It would be easier to just drop a dislike and look elsewhere but I’m hoping this doesn’t get taken the wrong way.

IM SO GLAD I FOUND YOU!!!! Just booked a hotel client and was panicking! So stoked to take some awesome pics!

Matt Anderson!? Man As soon as I saw the intro I knew it was you. Haven't changed much! It's Will Armstrong. Glad to see you doing your thing in Photography. I've been in the space too for like 16 years. Crazy!

Do you charge more for Shoot & Share bookings?

Good tips🎉❤

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Please make a video on interior photography without natural light when there is no any natural light source

Love how you explained in the end! Thanks much for the tutorial.

Matthew, thank you so much for sharing your professional skills. I do have a question, never do you mention how you determine/set the power level of the flash (trail and error, flash meter, slaved to camera exposure, etc)? You are correct, you style is A.L. (another level)! Keep up the great work!

Hi Matthew, thanks for the great videos. The last example, just made me understand why it is so difficult for me to have good photos of a specific medieval room with dark ceiling and beams. Best

Excellent work and informative video. Thank you.

You made that plum kitchen look amazing! Definitely need to up my flash/blending game.

Beautiful work man! Well explained too!

Excellent and informative presentation, Matt. Really nicely done! I appreciate your putting this together.

The one tool here I’ve never used is gels. Maybe it’s time for me to add that to my repertoire! I can see how they were helpful in that final shot.

Hey Matthew, do you have a video that demonstrates editing an image similar to that last one you showed in the kitchen?

Your style and theories resonate so much with me. I’m tired of and can’t stand the HDR look that basically looks like a computer render, plastic, stale, and lacks any kind of character needed to accurately represent beautiful, interior designs and architecture.

you shoot so beautifully and you get stunning homes!

Great video! Thankyou so much. Honestly appreciate all your videos and the knowledge that you share with us all

Great video

This was a fantastic video. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Great tips. These tips are gonna help me for my upcoming shoot. Thanks a ton Matthew.

Soo you don’t just bracket images and merge them in Lr to post process in Ps?

Seeing this makes me thing I know nothing about shooting interiors 😅

Just discovered your channel. I've watched 7 or 8 so far. Very helpful and great explanations!! thanks! Tod

Hey do you think if you had covered the window with diffuser cloth, or diffusing shower curtains the lighting would have came out softer. How much softer will a diffuser cloth on the windows make the light? Is it a good idea?

Listen my Canon 5D Mark II definitely doesn’t shoot like that straight out of the camera. I’m a believer that the camera DOESNT make the shot, the photographer does but, I also think by the look of this I need to upgrade my camera.

Which camera we can use in interior photography ?

A photographer I frequently work with uses flash, but often so subtly that I'm often wondering why we set it up at all. Of course this means post work is pretty intensive in terms of color correcting. Personally, I've been wanting to go a little heavier on flash. Right now, all I have are a pair of AD200's—great lights, but not great for using with bigger modifiers. Would love to see a gear video breaking down which lights and modifiers you use... In this video I think I see you using a 400 and a 600—would I be able to get by with a 400 for most scenarios or do you find yourself using the 600 enough to make hauling the extra weight worthwhile? Thanks!

Excellent video. 👏

this info is gold. thanks!

Another awesome video! Lighting is a big question mark for me when shooting interiors so I love this topic and this video was super helpful!

Would love to see your post processing of the last images. Awesome shots and love your videos!

Amazing work and your process is very well explained!

Hi Matthew. Thank you for your amazing content. I can see you use sony and godox. So do I and I find the white balance, with flash, to be super warm not giving the real colors of the space. How do you handle that? Canon doesn´t have that problem using godox products. Thanks

Well, it all makes sense when you break down. Appreciate it.

Great video as always! What lights/flash do you use?

Hi! Random question not regarding lighting but on something else you mentioned briefly. You said one of the sets was for both a designer and general contractor. I was just curious if you or anyone else in the comments does this often and do you just have them split the fee together for the shoot? I do have a flat rate and then charge per image so I wasn’t sure how you or anyone else handles that? I’d love any advice 😊

Great work. Just curious, are you using Sony or Canon? What model?

Flash topic is the most interesting to me. I have no problem with composition but light modification is more curious to me. Would be happy to see more videos on this theme.
Thanks for the video

Amazing!!!!!

Great work Matthew, can you please show us how you set your focus to get it sharp around the frame?

Hey Matthew, this video helped a lot. thank you so much for sharing

Hi Matt,
Always look forward to your videos.
I may have missed it but do you have a video on focusing techniques for interior design?

awesome tutorial as always man! I wish you went a little more into detail on the last example with how you shut the blinds above the sink to cut out the exterior light while you shot your flash frames. I would have liked to hear how you how you eventually shot with the blinds opened and masked them back in!

Sweet video as always my friend. Awesome photos! And the Plum cabinets in the kitchen is my favourite one too.

Great video again, thank you

just when I was needed to hop in the shower and get myself ready for work, THIS!! Here I shall remain haha

Thank you!