Interior Design Photography
Architectural Project of interior design of Breitling store in Los Ageles
I mostly completed an interior design photography project for the Breitling store in Century City, a small town, in Los Angeles. The client was Ildico which distributes high-end watches and I have done a few projects for them in the past
I had three hours to photograph the architectural photography project before they opened for business. Still, since Christmas decorations were crowding the interior, I could only shoot the interior space. My cameras were Nikon Z9s, and I mainly used my 14-24 mm lens. In retrospect, I wish I had had time to experiment with a 50mm lens and stitch the images together so I could have had a bit of compression but still kept the wide-angle view.
There was simply no time and the amount of post-production involved would have multiplied greatly. In the future, I will try this technique on one key image to see it is worth executing the effect.
I did bring in the clouds using my own cloud images since the faux windows near the ceiling were only design elements and their projected clouds did not read well.
Every architectural photography or interior design photography project is a story where I seek a beginning, a middle, and an end, so I usually start with the lobby area or entryway and then work my way back through the space. I look for spaces the interior designer or architect has designed and shoot them separately, like the bar or lounge spaces below. Those are my “middle” shots. Then I see how they are integrated into the space and shoot those images as well.
Finally, I will look for a detail shot like the final shot of the display with the neon Breitling shot and the end of the series. This methodology gives me a framework to work with and speeds up my photography processs.
Everything is a story waiting to be told.
For the post-production, I usually only show the client the finished images so they see only my best architectural photography.
