How to Use Flash for Interior Design Photography 

Would love to see your post processing of the last images. Awesome shots and love your videos!

Great video! Thankyou so much. Honestly appreciate all your videos and the knowledge that you share with us all

Love how you explained in the end! Thanks much for the tutorial.

Sweet video as always my friend. Awesome photos! And the Plum cabinets in the kitchen is my favourite one too.

Great video! Very detailed and easy to understand. Thank you and keep up with the great works!

You made that plum kitchen look amazing! Definitely need to up my flash/blending game.

Another awesome video! Lighting is a big question mark for me when shooting interiors so I love this topic and this video was super helpful!

Hi Matthew, thanks for the great videos. The last example, just made me understand why it is so difficult for me to have good photos of a specific medieval room with dark ceiling and beams. Best

Awesome video once again Matthew! Thanks for this!

Excellent and informative presentation, Matt. Really nicely done! I appreciate your putting this together. The one tool here I’ve never used is gels. Maybe it’s time for me to add that to my repertoire! I can see how they were helpful in that final shot.

Amazing work and your process is very well explained!

Hey Matthew, this video helped a lot. thank you so much for sharing

This was a fantastic video. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Great tips. These tips are gonna help me for my upcoming shoot. Thanks a ton Matthew.

Just discovered your channel. I've watched 7 or 8 so far. Very helpful and great explanations!! thanks! Tod

Really well done video - THANKS! You must have a TON of patience to put these things together. Is there any chance you could sometime try a "Chinese lantern" style diffuser on the AD600? I'm asking because I recently saw someone use a collapsible Godox D50 of that type (20inch diameter when open - yipes!), and he managed to entirely light a good size room JUST RIGHT (my humble opinion) - virtually a finished product - in ONE FRAME, with window exposed right. He was using a AD400 (I have the 600). I know, crazy, but what a huge time saver that would be. I'll look for the video. Imagine handing the client your memory card and saying, "Here you go. Have a nice day." Ha - fantasy world for sure. Thanks so much for your channel - so very helpful every time.

you shoot so beautifully and you get stunning homes!

Well, it all makes sense when you break down. Appreciate it.

Beautiful work man! Well explained too!

Excellent work and informative video. Thank you.

the last one is a great play, great job

My colleagues from Russia generally don't use flash when photographing interiors, they prefer natural light, however I use it sometimes, I don't like dirty windows with flare and unnecessary reflections! Thanks for your video!

awesome tutorial as always man! I wish you went a little more into detail on the last example with how you shut the blinds above the sink to cut out the exterior light while you shot your flash frames. I would have liked to hear how you how you eventually shot with the blinds opened and masked them back in!

Your style and theories resonate so much with me. I’m tired of and can’t stand the HDR look that basically looks like a computer render, plastic, stale, and lacks any kind of character needed to accurately represent beautiful, interior designs and architecture.

this info is gold. thanks!

Thank you for an insightful video. Before your video, when shooting architecture, I had only considered the customer. The customers included the following: Property Owner Property Seller Property Buyer Architect Builder Interior Designer Real estate agent Publisher Now, thanks to your video,, I also consider the photographer as a customer.

Hi Matt, Always look forward to your videos. I may have missed it but do you have a video on focusing techniques for interior design?

Great video again, thank you

Great work Matthew, can you please show us how you set your focus to get it sharp around the frame?

Personal taste and style all good but maybe budget is a question too when you consider shooting 20 "brackets" and edit for days? Especially as a beginner when all of it takes ages.

Excellent video. 👏

IM SO GLAD I FOUND YOU!!!! Just booked a hotel client and was panicking! So stoked to take some awesome pics!

Matthew, thank you so much for sharing your professional skills. I do have a question, never do you mention how you determine/set the power level of the flash (trail and error, flash meter, slaved to camera exposure, etc)? You are correct, you style is A.L. (another level)! Keep up the great work!

Hi Matthew. Thank you for all the content, it is inspiring and has helped me loads. I’m just wondering if you use a remote trigger to release the shutter on your camera or does your Assistant do it for you? Also, how do you review your images. Do you shoot tethered? Onto a screen or a laptop or even an iPad? Thanks again for all of your help with these videos man 📸

just when I was needed to hop in the shower and get myself ready for work, THIS!! Here I shall remain haha

Can you make an explanation video just for the last shot? , it looks very tricky and interesting

Matt Anderson!? Man As soon as I saw the intro I knew it was you. Haven't changed much! It's Will Armstrong. Glad to see you doing your thing in Photography. I've been in the space too for like 16 years. Crazy!

A photographer I frequently work with uses flash, but often so subtly that I'm often wondering why we set it up at all. Of course this means post work is pretty intensive in terms of color correcting. Personally, I've been wanting to go a little heavier on flash. Right now, all I have are a pair of AD200's-great lights, but not great for using with bigger modifiers. Would love to see a gear video breaking down which lights and modifiers you use... In this video I think I see you using a 400 and a 600-would I be able to get by with a 400 for most scenarios or do you find yourself using the 600 enough to make hauling the extra weight worthwhile? Thanks!

Great video

Good tips🎉❤

Hi Matthew. Thank you for your amazing content. I can see you use sony and godox. So do I and I find the white balance, with flash, to be super warm not giving the real colors of the space. How do you handle that? Canon doesn´t have that problem using godox products. Thanks

Amazing!!!!!

Hey Matthew, very helpful description of using flash and stacking. I have a client who wants the flooring and cladding to be in focus, as it is usually reflective using a flash gives a lot of glare and reflections, is there any specific technique you would recommend for getting marble and granite part more in focus in the shot than any other object.

Philosophy of natural lighting. Interesting.

Thank you!

Hey do you think if you had covered the window with diffuser cloth, or diffusing shower curtains the lighting would have came out softer. How much softer will a diffuser cloth on the windows make the light? Is it a good idea?

Great video as always! What lights/flash do you use?

Do you have any videos of you on location? Carrying out your flash photography techniques recorded?

Good video

By the way, are you using Lightroom HDR or Luminosity masks in Photoshop?

Which camera we can use in interior photography ?

Hi! Random question not regarding lighting but on something else you mentioned briefly. You said one of the sets was for both a designer and general contractor. I was just curious if you or anyone else in the comments does this often and do you just have them split the fee together for the shoot? I do have a flat rate and then charge per image so I wasn’t sure how you or anyone else handles that? I’d love any advice 😊

How do you blend the photos together without getting you or the flash in the final image

Hey Matthew, do you have a video that demonstrates editing an image similar to that last one you showed in the kitchen?

What flash soft box is it that you're using? I have an ad200 and would love to incorporate a soft box

How do you source the white balance

Great work. Just curious, are you using Sony or Canon? What model?

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Seeing this makes me thing I know nothing about shooting interiors 😅

Do you charge more for Shoot & Share bookings?

Great always super to pick into others brain 🙂🧠

Soo you don’t just bracket images and merge them in Lr to post process in Ps?

Please make a video on interior photography without natural light when there is no any natural light source

What is he referring to when he says "lighten mode"?

Listen my Canon 5D Mark II definitely doesn’t shoot like that straight out of the camera. I’m a believer that the camera DOESNT make the shot, the photographer does but, I also think by the look of this I need to upgrade my camera.

At the risk of sounding like a delicate flower, maybe take it easy with flambient/window pull/real estate snobbery. I don’t think it looks particularly good, and definitely not realistic, but it is what lot of paying clients want. I’m trying to learn anything that can help make me better. I stumbled across your account and I’ve binged a bunch. I’ve learned a good bit and I appreciate the work you put into the videos. However, the insinuation that there’s only one way to do it is off putting. I know this leaves me open counter criticism but I’m writing this out with the hopes of being constructive. It would be easier to just drop a dislike and look elsewhere but I’m hoping this doesn’t get taken the wrong way.

Thank you!