Two ways to make sure that the key elements in your room are given emphasis involve color and lighting.

eg. if you want to call attention to a dark dining room table, a bright vase of flowers placed on top of the..

table surface will help guide the viewer's eye to that object..clever!

Similarly, when on, a table lamp casts warm light on the surface of the table on which it sits and the objects in the immediate vicinity.

Where most interior photographs fail is illplaced clutter that detract the viewer from what you are trying to achieve.

It is said that photographing interiors is "Ten percent creativity and ninety percent moving furniture."

The reason for this-the average interior, no matter how tasteful, usually has too many items in it to read well in a photograph.

Get rid of the mountain of cushions, the ugly telephone, the bin, last year's tv guide, the yellow pages - you catch the drift!

In interior photography, less really is more.

A 2nd destraction other than clutter is line placement.

Nothing destroys our perception of a room more quickly than a photograph where vertical and horizontal lines are crooked.

The key step to avoiding this is to make sure that you point your camera straight ahead and don't let it tilt down or up.

Depending on the angle of your camera, there will be times that horizontal lines may tilt.

That is less serious than the vertical lines that are created by the corner of a room which must be straight up & down.

We hope that these tips help and inspire you to have a go at a different discipline of photography. Enjoy!

If you are interested in perhaps combining a career in photography with interior design, have a look at our sister school:

The Interior Design Institute - www.theinteriordesigninstitute.com.au

The cost of rights managed images on Getty never cease to amaze me - $12,000 for the use of 4 images.

We hope everyone has had a chance to play around shooting interiors because as mentioned before there is a huge lack in online libraries.

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