Here at Cramer Imaging, we have several different images which show our photos hanging on the walls of different rooms. We've had some questions lately about how we get those pictures. Do we have access to all those different rooms and all that furniture? Did we hire someone to do those photos for us? Today, we're answering that question.
While it would be nice to create and decorate a room to create a staged shot (like those we use on our website), the reality is that doing so would not only be a lot of work but also be extremely expensive and labor intensive.
I don't know about you, but interior design is not my forté, unlike landscape photography. I can do well for my own home but I'm not a professional designer by any stretch of the imagination.
There are even complications which might make this process even more difficult and time-consuming such as needing to find a place with a nice window and view.
There are even further considerations as well such as: if we were to use the same room over and over, we would need to get new furniture and re-decorate it again and again to try and make it look fresh every time. However, it would come to look like the same room in all of the staged photos. To do a wide variety of staged shots properly, we would need something like access to 50+ rooms and we would have to continually decorate them so that every aspect was fresh and interesting. That's both a LOT of work AND extremely expensive.
So what do we do? That's where the internet and Photoshop really help us out.
That's really about it. Now, I could go into some of the more technical details of skewing and making the photo look like it's behind glass, but most of that explanation covers pretty standard photoshop skills and beyond the scope of this article. Our staged photos show what our photography looks like in otherwise fully decorated rooms. Using the stock photo option, we can show you exactly what you want to see but we don't have to create a fully decorated room to do so.
The Problem
While it would be nice to create and decorate a room to create a staged shot (like those we use on our website), the reality is that doing so would not only be a lot of work but also be extremely expensive and labor intensive.
- We would have to find a space we could decorate.
- We would need find, coordinate, and set up ALL of the decoration minus the art: painting/wallpaper, furniture, table decorations, etc.
I don't know about you, but interior design is not my forté, unlike landscape photography. I can do well for my own home but I'm not a professional designer by any stretch of the imagination.
There are even complications which might make this process even more difficult and time-consuming such as needing to find a place with a nice window and view.
There are even further considerations as well such as: if we were to use the same room over and over, we would need to get new furniture and re-decorate it again and again to try and make it look fresh every time. However, it would come to look like the same room in all of the staged photos. To do a wide variety of staged shots properly, we would need something like access to 50+ rooms and we would have to continually decorate them so that every aspect was fresh and interesting. That's both a LOT of work AND extremely expensive.
The Solution
So what do we do? That's where the internet and Photoshop really help us out.
Original Stock Photo Staged Photo With My Image Added
Original Stock Photo Staged Photo With My Image Added
That's really about it. Now, I could go into some of the more technical details of skewing and making the photo look like it's behind glass, but most of that explanation covers pretty standard photoshop skills and beyond the scope of this article. Our staged photos show what our photography looks like in otherwise fully decorated rooms. Using the stock photo option, we can show you exactly what you want to see but we don't have to create a fully decorated room to do so.