Interior photography

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In interior photography, there are walls thus white space. If your interior designer have designed the walls to be white (or shades of white,) you can bounce flash off walls to illuminate dark corners and brighten the space. Opposite is true when interior designer / architect designed dark colored walls, but you can easily bring a white reflector (or flat white board) to bounce your flash :)

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When shooting interior photography / architectural interiors, you want to keep F aperture high & ISO low on tripod to get an ambient natural shot (3 multi brackets: dark, neutral, light.) Then flash bounce multiple locations for the best interior photography lighting to post process in photoshop.

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Below compares lens vs flash bounce /natural light for interior photography

  • 17mm (hyper distorts perspective but good for small space) vs 24mm (my go to camera lens for interior photography / architectural interior)

  • HDR in camera vs HDR in post vs moonlight flash bounce (my go to for interior photography / architectural interior)

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Thanks for reading, until next blog!

Xoxo- Liv

brooklyn NYC NY

Just moved back to Brooklyn, NYC NY New York. Setup desktop. Installing softwares. Itching to create new work. Can’t wait to show you! :)

Fashion photographer NYC - maiden vOyage

Here are some pierEscapes of Wall st NY NYC. Envisioning this location as scenes for a Haute couture luxury fragrance high fashion campaign. Imagine a fashion ad video featuring our protagonist, a British female fashion model ashores her first trip out to the sea. Until next blog, thanks for reading!

—xoxo, L

Travel -clevEland

Just landed in CLE airport. Here’s my plan so far…

10/23 Saturday. Ride RTA red line to downtown. Check in hotel.

10/24 Sunday. Obtain badge, lunch at healthcare design awards, network reception expo hall till 6:35pm. Explore Detroit superior bridge, tour Great Lakes brewing co, have a pint, buy grocery at west side market.

10/25 Monday. Work. Eat at Slyman’s restaurant & deli. Tour gotta grove records, Lake view cemetery. Attend networking event. Goodtime iii, rock & roll hall of fame, terminal tower observation deck.

10/26 Tuesday. Work. Lunch at expo hall. fly back to JFK

Until next blog, thanks for reading!

—xoxo, L

Travel -chicago

Our protagonist’s journey began with an internet research to boarding an airplane. She arrived at Warwick Allerton, way ahead of her check in time. “Oh man I’m starving!” She thought and asked the concierge where’s the hotel restaurant. Unfortunately restaurants and bars were closed due to covid. “But human’s gotta eat…” she thought, so she walked to RL restaurant, ate delicious lunch while people watching and checked out their cool art collections on the walls, as well as the pieces in the lobby to the escalator down to and up from the bathroom.

When she finally checked into her room, she saw the cool drone shot art and snapped a picture (image below.) “Hmm… looks like it was shot before Chicago skyscrapers developed… hmm gold colored water and black and white cityscape…love the metaphor” she thought.

She decided to walk around River North Chicago, went into out of curiosity. Apparently this used to be Starbucks, they operated behind, but took over this summer and just opened the store. “People still come in asking for coffee!” laughed the store saleswoman. She then walked across Streeterville towards Lake shore drive and played with her new Ronin DJI :)

Later that evening, she ate dinner, explored the Chicago night scene, and went to sleep. Art for Life 2021 is next week… perfect excuse for our protagonist return to Chicago? Until next blog, thanks for reading!

—xoxo, L

Travel -Greece

Wanderlust bit me and I jumped on the opportunity to goto Greece. Here are some seascapes of Crete. I can already envision this location as scenes for a high-end automobile campaign (luxury car driven through the sand dust, Bonnie and Clyde style into a new uncharted territory) or a lifestyle photoshoot (luxury hotel opening or condos for sale) :) Until next blog, thanks for reading!

—xoxo, L