How To Photograph Small Rooms (on Yachts)

In this video, I'll show you how to photograph, edit, composite, and retouch architectural photography that, in this case, was taken on a yacht. This style of photography and editing can be used to photograph any small space.

[matuszewskistudio]

Nice work there! Two things woth concidering about your workflow;
1. correct the perspective first using lightroom (guided) - you can copy and paste it to another donor photos if your first selection is lacking
2. import the files to photoshop as smart objects so you can fine-tune white balance and exposure.
Hardest thing about the process is batch developing the images and with these two tips it's much easier. Cheers!

[MichaelRoachWV]

3:00 You can also flash at the windows, overexposing the interior, and then use darken mode to blend it. Commonly referred to as a “window pull”

6:00 Highly recommend opening as smart objects in photoshop and then dragging them in. It can save a lot of time if colors / exposure needs tweaked

[adrianrubindecelis]

Great video! Made me miss the CTC with Mike Kelley, hope you do another one soon!

[thomasleftheris]

HUGE HELP FOR ME !!! EXCELENT JOB !!! GREAT INFORMATIONS ! SIMPLE EXAMPLE ! THANK YOU ! GOD BLESS Fstoppers

[FStoppers]

Lee, you know you can hit ALT and click between the adjustment layer and underlying layer to pin it as a clipping mask right? -P

[happysunshinemedia]

really cool. unique workflow compared to how I do things. Love seeing different approaches, and the final image is wonderful

[corysilkenphotography]

Nice work! So, as a "full time interior yacht photographer" (or something like that), I have found a shift lens is invaluable, like a 17 T/S, with the sometimes odd heights of things. And getting the boat off the dock is definitely essential for those window views! And it looks great to put a photo of that boat on the tv...

[benjaminleavitt]

This was a great video. Loved the open in photoshop as layers tip

[adrianomoreira]

Great!

Wow, don't forget to include subtitles in all videos. Facilitates understanding for someone from another country like me.

Thank you and congratulations!

[billabonggay]

Love that tutorial, more like this please :)
Thanks!

[michaeldougherty]

Very good, I still don't all of it, but amazing!

[arunashamal]

One thing I've learned doing Real Estate photography is you can make a great image awesome if you dodge and burn.. once you done with everything dodge and burn it, it elevates the image like you wouldn't believe.

[jeffreywolff]

Wonderful tutorial - thanks for this 👏

[corbinpearce]

Aside from the whole tutorial being really cool showing a lot of neat tricks, I love the final crop in 16x9. Since every camera shoots 3x2, or 4x3, I think too many people get stuck using those crops, or maybe 8x10. But with screens being 16x9 generally for computers and tv, we know it's a good ratio, and I think it looks great for photos as well.

[karolchomka-media]

That's Sunreef Yacht! Great to see a yacht from my country - Poland. Do you also shoot a video with this yacht?

[nooch]

It's much better to increase the shutter speed for your flash shot rather than stopping down (assuming that you're not already at your max sync speed, which if you're shooting at f8 and ISO100 is unlikely). Stopping down hugely deceases the power of the flash which is a problem if you're in a bigger space or only using a speedlight. This problem occures constantly in real estate (not having enough flash power), which is why we shoot at around f7.1 - f8 and ISO200-400 (rather than say f11 and ISO100). It's all about that flash power baby! (it helps having an 600watt studio flash if you really want to be a lighting badass). Also, by changing the f-stop between images you're also changing the sharpness of different exposures and the look of the diffracted light, which isn't the biggest deal but it's something take note of.

[waynedennyphoto]

Lmao, I see everyone is giving you PS tips, so let me add one more! At 11:05, you start dragging the guides (and then skewing the photo) to get a level shot, but if you use the geometry section in camera raw you can drag two lines for vertical and two for horizontal and it'll automatically do it for you. It's wildly efficient! Even if you forgot to do it initially, you can use Camera Raw as a filter to do it to the final image.

[vistasuprema]

That new Laowa 10mm would have been nice here :)

[LumiereNoirePhotography]

Nice result, thanks for the explanations. I think i would have closed the bathroom door. and erased the electric cord on the right. You could probably have also recentered the speaker on the ceiling.

[bitcrafter]

I'm curious, how's the Mac been for you? Are you a convert now?