Being a real estate photographer in Brentwood is great! This was an enormous house I photographed recently for Edward Tinney of Nourmand & Associates. This house was just off Sunset Blvd and despite the size, I actually managed to get through this property shoot pretty quickly. This was largely due to the fact that this place was a joy to photograph!

Final delivered photograph of the exterior of the home - Real estate photography in Brentwood, CA — Final delivered photograph of the exterior of the home - Real estate photography in Brentwood, CA

Final lit and delivered photograph of the stairway

Ambient only shot of the room before we decided to move the distracting chair

Ambient only shot of the master bathroom

Final lit and delivered photograph of the master bedroom.

Final lit and delivered photograph of the bedroom.

Final lit and delivered photograph of the master bathroom

Final delivered photograph of the backyard view from the balcony.

This kitchen area was great - look at that island! I set up lights inside the room, but I also had umbrellas outside to mimic sunlight.

Ambient only shot of the kitchen with the agent inspecting the scene

One of the final photographs of the kitchen

The wallpaper in this house would probably not be my first choice...

Final delivered photograph of the dining room

Final delivered photograph of the living room with a digital fire added

A shot of me pretending to be a light stand because I left them all the way on the other side of the house.

Me trying to figure out why this flash wasn't firing.

Final delivered photograph of the living room

Final delivered photograph of the backyard

It was perfect weather that day for real estate photo shoot and this home in Brentwood was a lot of fun.

I had the opportunity to photograph a beautifully remodeled home in West Hills. The shoot was booked last minute, but that was totally fine because I was free that afternoon. The home was going to be on the show Flipping Moms on HGTV. What I didn't know before I arrived was that they were still filming the episode at the house when I arrived. Oh...

You can see the HGTV camera crew outside.

More of HGTV camera crew milling about outside and me looking like a giant next to the tiny bed.

The house was alive with activity - there was crew and equipment everywhere! Real estate shoots are usually quiet, calm experiences. This was a big difference from what I was used to, but it was actually a fun change of pace. Everyone from the crew was super friendly and the house was nicely staged.

Barb Machen and crew putting the finishing touches in the kitchen and living room.

More of Barb Machen and crew staging the house.

The final photograph of the living room and kitchen.

I don't normally do any light painting if I can avoid it. While utilizing this technique can lead to some breathtaking images, it's not always practical for most shoots. It requires extra time both at the shoot and much more during post processing. Because I could only shoot in the rooms the lights and crew weren't in, I had some some time in some of the rooms to do a little .

Ambient light only photograph of the living room.

Adding some fill light and doing some hand held flash painting.

The final photograph of the living room.

Most of the other rooms were done at a much quicker pace utilizing some bounced fill lights taken in a single shot. The sun was setting quickly and I needed to move fast enough so that it didn't get too dark outside. I love the look of twilight shoots, but if the sun sets fully the windows turn completely black and unappealing.

The ambient light only photoraph of the living and dining room.

Work in progress with a badly placed shoot through umbrella and staging flowers without a home.

First composition of the kitchen that I ended up changing.

Final photograph of the living and dining room.

Another obstacle I ran into was that some of the light fixtures didn't actually work. I had multiple flashes to combat this, thankfully, and photographing this home without them might not have had the nicest results.

It's dark in here!  I'm standing in the shower for this shot, by the way. — It's dark in here! I'm standing in the shower for this shot, by the way.

Much better! This is the final photograph of the bathroom.

Wow those little lights aren't doing much and the main light wasn't finished yet.

There we go! The final photograph of the bathroom.

The final photograph of the entrance to the home.

One of the final photographs of the exterior of the home.

I sometimes deliver a few different options to my clients. Since I had done some light painting indoors earlier, I decided to offer a light painted exterior. Usually when I'm selecting the best photographs to deliver it's usually very obvious which ones are best. This time, however, I really couldn't decide if I liked the naturally lit exterior or the one I light painted. Which one do you prefer?

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