Furniture Photography

From my research I have gathered a few key points when photographing furniture. Some furniture may be made from material or have a textured surface and would need harsh angled light to properly display the textures. Other pieces of furniture may be reflective or glass and therefore would need large soft light sources.

camera angle and perspective would also be important to display the key features on each piece as well as a view point that is realistic to where we would normally view furniture.


Image 1



This is a location example of furniture photography. In this image we can see shadows on the right side of objects and in the corner of the room. This typically indicates a large diffuesed light source on the light side of the image either being natural light from a window or a large soft box to replicate natural lightt. I like the simplicity of this image and that the whole environment gives you a feeling of warmth and comfort that of which a bath is intended to portray. The camera seems to be approximately 4m away with a relatively wide focal length of possibly 24mm or wider, cropped into a square format.

Image from: http://www.allaboutyou.com/home/planned-to-perfection-32667

Image 2




This image is a studio example of furniture photography. Firstly we can see that the background has been graduated (maybe a little bit to hot in places) and has some fall off light onto the side of the chair which helps to futher display the type of material used on the chair. Alternatively there may be a side light used for this. There is also a main key light which seems to be high slightly to the right which gives a few reflections on the front of the chair. This angled light helps to define the patern on the material but there are still some black spots with minimal tonal detail. The photographer was positioned much closer maybe 2m away at approx 30mm and the camera is relatively straight on to the chair.

Image from: http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://us.123rf.com/168nwm/digitalgenetics/digitalgenetics1003/digitalgenetics100300225/8120143-3d-armchair-studio-render.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.123rf.com/photo_8224271_3d-white-leather-couch-studio-shot.html&usg=__VumYXd8m9RgRVWil2Lbi_3IHU1w=&h=168&w=168&sz=7&hl=en&start=76&sig2=jFmMYkPMc_7cpYDAGykhhg&zoom=1&tbnid=msErHAey__hIlM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=119&ei=KX5CTusPxqCZBYKj0KAJ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dvintage%2Bcouch%2Bstudio%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D547%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=578&page=6&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:76&tx=76&ty=46