Recent Real Estate Marketing Interiors

Several interior shots of a home in Atherton, CA, that I shot for Nancy Goldcamp/Coldwell Banker.

Living Room

Dining Room

Family Room

Contrasting Bedrooms

Here are a couple of bedrooms from a lovely house in Los Gatos, CA, that I shot recently: one contemporary style and the other traditional, in an updated Spanish adobe style house.

Palo Alto Living Room

Here is a recent shot for real estate marketing purposes that I rather like. Subjects with a limited range of colors, such as this, can be hard to make interesting as color photographs. However, there are some nice shapes and textures here that help to keep things interesting, and the book on the coffee table and the green foliage outside help to add just a touch of color variation.

90 Stevenson Lane, Atherton

Here are a couple of shots I did last month for a high-end real estate listing in Atherton, CA, for Hanna Shacham, with the Menlo Park office of Coldwell Banker. It is always fun to shoot homes that are nicely decorated. In this case, it was the homeowner's own decor, not staged furnishings. I would like to point out that photography for real estate often involves using very wide views, to give a sense of the space. If I were shooting for an interior designer or an architect, I would most likely create somewhat tighter compositions, at least for the kitchen shot.

A technical aside, the wider you shoot interiors, the harder they tend to be to light, because there is less room to hide the lights or to avoid unwanted reflections and shadows from the lights. Also, shots such as these tend to need supplementary lighting not only in the foreground space, but in the adjoining spaces as well, to keep them from looking like "black holes."

Woodside Contemporary Home at Twilight

Here is a shot from a job from early last year, of a contemporary home in the hills of Woodside, CA.

I really like the indoor/outdoor feel provided by a very large sliding glass door that opens up from the great room onto a deck looking out on the landscape below.