Photos of a Home
Recently I was asked to do a photoshoot of a house that was currently being renovated in a very swanky part of Auckland city. The builders were proud of the work they had done on the home and wanted something as a memento. Not only did they want the main rooms shown off, but they wanted some of the finer work photographed also. I had shot some product photography for one of the builders earlier in the year for a deck-jacking system they had invented and they called me back to shoot this home.
Having never shot a house before (And when you see it, it wasn’t a small house) I was a little unsure of I could pull it off and suggested the pull in a pro architecture photographer, but the client didn’t mind and trusted that I could get the job done for them. I also hired a couple of assistants to help me at different parts of the day. Nykie from mistralphotography took up the bulk of the work and a good friend of mine Vincent Yu came in during the last hour of the shoot. I had them essentially go around and shoot little pickup shots of details and other things that I wasn’t going to shoot in the primary photography. They did a great job!
There were a couple of obstacles to this shoot. The biggest was the contrast ratios. Trying to get a good exposure from inside to out was challenging because the house had so many windows. I employed some HDR for exposure blending, flash, and avoided problematic areas as much as I could and things worked out pretty good in the end.
The second was what to shoot! In the lead up to the shoot it was hard to get access to the location because the home owners were now living in it, and were giving permission out of the goodness of their hearts. So, the builder wanted to turn up on the day to show me what he wanted photographed but he got held up at another job so I had to just go ahead anyway. I’m glad I did because I finished not long before a dinner party started to be prepared which would have made shooting the kitchen a little hard 
The images were captured, processed and delivered to the client within a week and the response was very satisfying:
“Hi Aaron……those look amazing AWESOME photos…thank you very much..”
I also added a number of images with some more stylised treatment to make things a little more dynamic.
So all in all a successful shoot and the builder said that he will get me back for his next job – nice!
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Congrats, Aaron! The photos turned out really great, fantastic job! I could be fooled into thinking they got a professional architecture photographer to do the job
But the house itself is a bit too modern for my liking – just a little bit too sparse and minimalistic.