Interior Design Kitchen Photography Tutorial - Photographing & Editing

[@wendysaade3360]

Recently discovered your videos and plan to binge-watch them all. TY for creating them-they are so helpful and educational. Your work is so amazing, and it's great to see your process and the effort you put into your editing.

[@aldobelenda907]

Something I do when desaturating, I use a general saturation mask with +33 and paint what was desaturated, that way I lose the yellows, blues, oranges, but I rescue only the colors I need that get the impact in the photo, such as lamps, wood, golds, etc.

[@bl4841]

the rogue color section was a really valuable tip. appreciate that !

[@chrisrestrepo1526]

Great video! If you want to remove a couple clicks from you workflow - You can make a lightroom preset that just enables lens corection and remove chromatic aberration. You can then have that preset applied to all imported images by default so you dont have to worry about applying it in lightroom.

[@hamishharrison2382]

Great tip, thank you!

[@ODashbo]

This was very helpful. I like that you show how subtle some of your adjustments are. I tend to be heavy-handed and then it looks goofy, like you say.

[@simonmoore3727]

Lovely polish! Thank you Matthew - excellent and laid back presentation too.

[@ZoeChing1319]

Loved watching this video, I feel like we edit similarly and see a lot of the same types of small, subtle details. Cool to see your workflow and compare it to my own. Thank you for posting this!

[@eyeconikmedia2058]

was editing side by side with you on one of my images! thank you again for all that you're doing to grow this industry!

[@ladybuilder]

Hahah cabinet maker here researching best way to photograph my work. Yes plumb cabinets are vital for a job well done 😅

[@claudiamartinez9652]

Thanks for the video! great to see your judgment on site to what to block and how to process the image in a subtle way.

[@space_tamnik]

Thank you Thank you Thank you. Best Photography Tutorial Ever!!

[@jordanashley9534]

Love these tutorial videos Matt! Keep 'em coming!

[@hannahlozanoagnone9811]

These videos are so helpful! Thanks so much!

[@JoshxIZ]

I like the hue saturation thing u did to see what colors are present...i have seen other ppl on yt do that. I mostly just use the hsl tab in LR but I would like to move it over into photoshop and mask those colors in or out.

[@rikunorakari]

Nice video Matthew! Thank you for these very great tips and tricks! Greetings from Finland ❄

[@ovideoagency75]

Thanks for sharing this videos I really learn something today I start my own business this year and for sure I will use your advices to my next shooting ( I use to install kitchens for 13 years) now I star to shoot kitchens for my ex boss. Much appreciated yours videos big thanks 🙏 greetings from Paris

[@wymangentry]

Great tutorial! The only thing missing (and I hate to be a critic because there's so much value here) is that you didn't really talk about the shots themselves. Meaning why you decided to only use two ambient layers and no flash. What the thought process was in exposing, etc... That being said I love how detailed you are in explaining your edit process! Thank you for putting out such great content!

[@1ZeeSnake1]

Amazing ! Thank you very much for the sharing the knowledge 😛

[@berthasanchez4029]

Love your videos ! Thank YOU

[@jamescalandrino7997]

Love this edit tutorial. Always watch til the end for your content, keep it up!

[@xcubelabsharish1643]

Hey Mathew, in those bunch you can add me as well. Although I didnt comment for the edit you finally did, what I did was took screenshots of those images and I myself tried combining images. Mixing the lighting of those 2-3 images to get the best image possible. eg - Flambient etc.

[@jakemiller8402]

Another great video. Really like your style.

[@jaredmarkfincher2196]

So great Matt! Thank you!!

[@mikestewart4733]

Hi Matthew....great video. I've noticed on several of your bts shoots that you hand hold black fabric to block light from specific directions. Given that you do this with some frequency is there a reason you don't carry a stand and/or crossbar to hang the fabric (especially for when it's higher or wider than you can reach)?

[@epectase6314]

little changes make big changes 🤯

[@prashastipal7558]

Do make tutorial for polarizers for architectural and interior photography

[@jayspot8894]

Lately I have been doing a Hue/Saturation layer for each color then group them into a folder. Probably overkill for some images but it does a bit more fine tune control.

[@aldobelenda907]

My cherry on top is back in LR, create a virtual copy of the psd and adjusting some things, contrast, exposure, etc Instead of color efex pro. It's the same adjustments but without more plugins.

[@yeyestudios1]

Your videos are legit so helpful! Thank you so much and I was wondering about the color effect pro; I’d it already installed in photoshop or you downloaded it?? 🙏🏾✨

[@vanodyssey1659]

Great video, but did you not "auto align" layers before you started work? I forget to do it all the time!

[@V1ZNS.]

Awesome video

[@kuzmanator]

Thanks again for the great content as always, I always learn little tips that help my own workflow. This question is less in regard to your computer setup, do you have a preferred brand for monitor for editing and a color calibration routine? If not a quick answer is this something you'd consider doing in a future video? Much appreciated.

[@oleglozovoy]

Hi Matthew, Thanks for what you're doing here on KZbin. Extremely valuable content! I have a question not specifically related to this shot of a kitchen. What do you do in terms of post-processing when a client wants to get a photo of the interior with an outside view seen through the windows? Basic luminosity masking of several brackets usually leads us to kind of a mushy low-contrast look where window frames almost blend with an outside view. Would love to get any tips from you on this point!

[@CHODOSPHOTOS]

Cool, but I’d rather stack exposures in Lightroom and paint in the light without switching over to Photoshop. I tend to only open PS for detailed removals or cleaning up something.

[@sebastianbraggaar9726]

Hey Matthew! Thank you so much for your videos!! I’m starting off in architecture photography and using primarily your videos to learn, since I like your style of photos! I just have one question: How do you deal with White-Balance when you merge pictures of natural light and the ones you added flash? I have a hard time getting the correct colours between shots...

[@MatthewAPhoto]

You have to know the white balance of your flash and sometimes I will gel a flash to match the temperature of the lights in the area I'm shooting

[@vanodyssey1659]

Alao, would you not liked to have shot the room with those stunning lights on?

[@brsaravia]

Hi Matthew, wich lens did you used? Thanks

[@CTcoreytrevor]

Your edit is far simpler than I imagined. But like you said the heavy lifting is done on the set of the shoot and I know that takes practice and knowledge. The one thing that surprised me a little was your white balance process. With an interior design shoot like that I would have thought you would use a grey card or something. But let me ask you: if you wanted to get your white balance as close to perfect as possible (in case there was no room for any inaccuracy), what would you do? would placing a grey card in the scene be acceptable? Would that be a surefire way to do it? Or would you manually set white balance in camera according to your eye? As you can sense I'm very dedicated to learning how to get perfect white balance, haha. :) Thanks man.

[@MatthewAPhoto]

I have used a grey card before, but if I don't have one on me, I try to remember things in the space that were neutral grey or white. And then I'll reference those. I've had several people comment about white balance recently, so I think I'm going to make that a topic for an upcoming video.

[@CTcoreytrevor]

@@MatthewAPhoto I would really like that a lot and everyone would benefit and be interested to see that video. I think getting colors as accurate as possible is so important. Personally I never want to guess or rely on my memory.

[@lumosnina]

Aren’t you using Sony? Is Effect Pro is available to use even if you do not shoot with Nikon?

[@MatthewAPhoto]

Yes. Its a Photoshop plugin

[@bobby350z]

Liked the video. I like the less editing approach.

[@thirstygreek]

Does anyone else think the pendant lights should be on? It's easy enough to remove the color cast in post from them

[@epectase6314]

I'm confused, you did use a light outside the window right?

[@MatthewAPhoto]

Nope. No flashes used for this shot

[@mikestewart4733]

Which filter/effect did you select in Colo Efex Pro?

[@DarioVenturini-photography]

Detail Extractor

[@MatthewAPhoto]

Detail extractor + pro contrast

[@northtosouthmedia]

MINT!!!!

[@alanabley525]

I look forward to all your videos and enjoy your excellent communication style but there is something I don't quite understand. You often mention that you don't want to make anything look fake but what's more fake than window that don't show anything? That's what windows are for, they show views.

[@justink4267]

The blown out window look is something you see in high end architectural photography, sometimes. It's usually done to focus the attention on the interior or hide an ugly view through the window. Matthew was probably referring to a style that reads as natural in relation to color, contrast, and light and shadow.

[@alanabley525]

@@justink4267 I'm completely aware of what you and Matthew are saying and have always left some color in white walls, especially when lights are left on and make the floors look realistic too etc. We do this to try to mimic what the eye sees, but then you turn around towards the windows and leave realism behind; the eyes see something outside. It's just that I see an inconsistency in the approach where you strive for realism in one area and completely ignore it in another. I've watched everything he put out and value the information but the windows look fake; There's no other way to say it.

[@MatthewAPhoto]

Photography is a creative medium so it's up to each photographer's tastes and preferences. There's no hard set rules to this stuff. That being said though...I don't think you'd open AD or Dwell magazine and see many interior images with excessive window pulls.