custom homes
Recent winner of two awards (first place distinctive design, gold winner pick of the parade), B.L. Rieke’s Savannah plan had it all. During my initial client walkthrough, I knew I wanted to arrive early enough to get the lanai + gold course view in perfect light. See how the sun is behind the beam? Yep, that was planned! We shot a handful of wider shots as well as plenty of details to tie the gallery together. Shot for B.L. Rieke Custom Home Builders.
Have you ever been on any of the Parade of Homes tours around Kansas City? What are some of the features each of the homes have in common? There is one feature in new luxury homes that is very popular. I'm talking about tall ceilings.
I was recently tasked with shooting a living room that features 18-foot ceilings with a floor-to-ceiling window. Usually with tall ceilings there will also be beautiful wood beams at the very top. Capturing these beams is important for showing what the room is all about. The beams add a luxurious character to the room that is just as important as any other detail.
How do you photograph tall ceilings in a way that shows the overall space without simply pointing your camera straight-up causing goofy distortion?
Use a tilt-shift lens! A tilt-shift lens is a special lens designed for capturing these type of pictures without making the image look abnormal. The lens allows the photographer to take a "normal" shot and a "shifted" shot. These two shots are then combined to make the final image which shows the entire room as well as the tall ceilings.
Let the pictures do the talking...
Here is the normal shot. The viewer cannot see the wooden beams or the ceiling which defines the room.
Here is the shifted image. This was captured by using the tilt-shift lens' shift feature allowing me to capture the ceilings and the wooden beams. Since we can't see the living room we will stitch this image together with the normal image to get the final image.
Here is the final image with the normal image and shifted image stitched together.
