Kitchen from Villa Lisa

The allure of the clean white kitchen is inescapable. It is also really tricky to shoot  because white walls are a series of gradients that can look muddy if lit improperly. I shoot interiors differently from most photographers in Costa Rica because I generally work in daylight, and do not use HDR photography as it looks far too much like a rendering or a cartoon for my taste. Working in daylight requires a lot of equipment to light up the interior properly. In essence, you must produce the same quantity of light indoors as there is outside. For this shot, I used a 400WS Norman monolight with a huge softbox, and a 320WS fill light with a bowl reflector bounced off the ceiling to give the floors a nice reflection.

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