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Shooting the interior hall of a large modern home

Shooting the interior hall of a large modern home

From the course: Architectural Photography: Interiors

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Shooting the interior hall of a large modern home

So one of the really interesting aspects of this house, is the site slopes down towards the water, so the architect took advantage of that slope by doing a sloping hallway, and the hallway decreases in size. It starts wide, and everytime we get to a bedroom door, it gets a little skinnier and skinnier. What that does is, the offset allows all the bedroom doors to be seen as you walk up the hall. Which I think is a really interesting aspect, the design aspect. So, the plan was, then, to place the camera so that we could see how the doors receded as we went up. And the way I decided the final placement of the camera once I knew generally that's where it was going to go. Was I kept an eye on the second scuplture back here, and I placed the front edge of that second sculputre into the negative space created by the door behind it. That was where my camera ended up. So after I had a camera positioned, I captured a frame, took a look at it, and realized I really wanted to add a little bit of…

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