Ever flip through the pages of HomeStyle magazine and just marvel at how put together and cohesive a bedroom, living room, kitchen, or even a bathroom is? Well, from working on interior shoots I can tell you a lot goes into making those spaces photo worthy. Honestly we might need to take a photo of the designers’ car trunk before unloading it so you can see the amount of detail pieces brought: from flowers and greenery-real and fake-to food spreads, magazines and books, platters, picture frames, and more! So no, don’t feel bad if your living room doesn’t match that seen in a magazine.
On these shoots, it is pretty typical for us to spend time getting caught up in the details and adjusting the angle of the flowers or moving a lamp 5 inches to the right so it looks centered in the camera.
Courtney Aleksa has mastered the art of finding beauty in the details-and angles. Within her work style, she opens up rooms to make them more spacious and take in the natural light…all while maintaining as much of the home’s original history as possible. On our Winchester session together, she had the space photo ready before we even walked in, granted the home-owners were out of town for the weekend giving her the time to make arrangements, but that shoot finished much earlier than expected as we moved from room to room.
You can check out some of her open-styled modern interiors below!
