Mike Kelley – Where Art Meets Architecture

Mike Kelley has quickly become one of the most sought after architecture and interior photographers around because of his unique light painting with speedlights technique. Mike uses artificial light, natural ambient light, and high powered strobe light to create a hyper realistic mood that has become a staple in the commercial and advertising world. Unlike traditional techniques such as single long exposures or high dynamic range renders, Mike’s light painting technique allows him to have the most amount of control over every light source seen in his images. After seeing Mike’s before and after examples, you can appreciate how impressive his work is.

Mike Kelley is the producer of Fstoppers.com. Where art and architecture meet. A 7 hour long download on how to photograph real estate, architecture, and interiors. Mike will explain each and every technique he uses to produce his images. Three chapters cover the tools necessary to succeed in the different niche markets within the field of interior photography. If you are an experienced photographer or have never taken your camera out of auto mode, Mike will teach you the most basic steps to get started as well as walk you through some of his most complicated photo edits. You can get on the fast track to making your photos of homes and architecture look as good as those seen in publications and commercials with the help of this guide.

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What is not covered:

Real Estate Photography. In the Real Estate section, Mike will teach you everything you need to know about this genre so you can kick start your career and start producing images for real estate agents, listing agents, and general property management. The basics will be covered in this chapter.

• How to get started with minimal gear
• How to bounce flash effectively
• Using natural light to your advantage
• Properly composing your frame
• Choosing the correct focal length
• How to retain exterior window views
• Two, three, and four light setups
• Correcting pincushion and barrel distortion
• Fixing converging lines in Photoshop
• Creating a final image completely in camera

In addition to building your foundation, Mike also talks about how he found success in the real estate market, and how you can build a money making business shooting properties for sale. Photography of architecture and interior. The chapter focuses on how to create photographs for higher paying clients like architects, home builders, interior designers, and magazine editorials. With the ground work already done, Mike focuses on streamlining your process and pushing your images into actual works of art. While on location at an actual architect’s personal home, Mike walks you through eight flagship images from initial capture all the way through the final editing process. You can follow along as Mike teaches you how to create his signature look by following along with a full PSD file of twilight exterior images.

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• Mike’s Twilight Exterior Technique
• Advanced light painting and compositing
• Tethering to an ipad/iphone
• Using scrims to control reflections/specular highlights
• The “Moody Interior Twilight Shot”
• Faking warm sunlight
• Staging furniture for strong compositions

Commercial and advertising photography. In this final section, Mike shows you how to make perfect images for restaurants, hotels, wedding venues, resorts, and other commercial clients. The lighting images will be based on the use of the space.

• Creating twilight images while a restaurant is open for business
• Incorporating people into your photography
• Lighting multi room locations
• Replacing details in Photoshop
• Lighting large banquet halls
• How to create an inviting atmosphere

Mike will cover the business of commercial and advertising photography, including how to market yourself, how to build residual income through image licensing, finding and maintaining clients, and pricing your work.

The definitive workshop on shooting Real Estate, Architecture, or Interior images has been created. It’s not like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it By the end of the 7 hour workshop, you will feel like you have the tools you need to complete any job in this niche of photography.

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Not familiar with Mike’s work? We did a short Fstoppers Original with Mike and he took a twilight shot in Arizona. The full post can be found here.

There are two more lessons!

There are two new videos with Mike Kelley produced by Fstoppers. These are more advanced and focus on specific elements of the architecture photography market. If you are just starting out with real estate photography, lighting, and post production, we recommend watching WAMA 1 first, but if you want to learn everything Mike has to teach, we have bundled all of the tutorials in this series at a discount.

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