Dressing the interior space before the final shot

Okay, now we're on the main overall shot.…In a shot like this, I normally like to place the camera…so I can see the background that I want in the image itself.…After I have the background and the camera…height worked out, then I move the furniture…or whatever objects are there to make the…foreground work, then I'm looking for any details, propping.…Or whatever else I need to do to…complete the composition.…After the composition is ready, then I consider lighting.…

After lighting is done then I shoot the captures.…And some times it will be HDR capture.…And sometimes it won't.…So in this case we've got a fairly small room.…And I wanted to make the room feel as spacious as possible, and I also wanted…to create a point where the viewer could put themselves in the room to really enjoy…the space. So I pulled the sofa right up by the…camera, and use the top edge of the sofa to dictate where the sofa was placed.…

What I wanted to do was hold just enough of the sofa, so that we could see…it, but I wanted that sweeping curve of…