Architecture Photographer

Douglaston Architecture Assignment

Recent architecture and interior photography assignment in Douglaston Queens for a long time architect client. On this assignment, I photographed the home as it was nearing completion. The final touches were being worked on (paint, hardware, and cleaning), so the home could be handed over to the homeowners. For this reason, we staged the home props to make it feel homey and inviting.

Points of interests on this residential home shoot were:

  • Kitchen with its dark wood cabinets and contrasting blue center island

  • Natural light

  • Fixture choices throughout the home (kitchen and bathrooms)

Long Island Architecture & Interior Photographer | Douglaston Manor

Recent architecture and interior photography assignment of a just completed home in Queens, NY. This project was documented and stylized for long time client, Kevin Wolfe Architecture. Most of the the homes I photograph for Kevin are located in the historical part of Douglaston Manor. This home, while not in the historic district, still holds the same traditional, simple, and always well thought out design Kevin is known for.

I love photographing individual parts of a home and capturing each space’s mood. On this assignment, the focus of the home was the kitchen. The homeowner’s son is a professional chef and when he comes back to his mom’s home in Queens, entertaining and spending time together always occurs in the kitchen.

Prior our photoshoot, I removed some clutter off of the counter tops and I cleaned the surfaces. I staged a few simple props like the flowers and lemons to add both color and depth. The yellow of the lemons and the flowers multi-colors brought a subtle touch to this otherwise white kitchen.

At the end of our shoot, Harley, the homeowners dog was eager to jump in. He 100% brought some life to this kitchen.

Douglaston Manor Home - Kevin Wolfe Architecture

Douglaston Manor, NY | Recent architecture and interior design photography work of a completed home restoration project. I photographed the above photos over two full days and a third day is now scheduled to capture the remaining parts of the home; man cave, basement, mud room. Living on Long Island there is so much potential for Architecture Photography.

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Douglaston Manor - Kevin Wolfe Architecture

It’s always a change of pace photographing interiors for an architect and an interior designer. In just an 8-10 hour day I might only photograph 6 rooms and walk away with 250 photos. Those 250 photos will then will be culled, edited, and delivered as 40 finished images. When photographing interiors each room must be meticulously staged with chairs, blankets, flowers, books, and whatever else you’d find in a home. Photographing interiors is a complete 180 from my usual university work, which is fast paced do to time constraints.

On this particular shoot, the homeowner was not living in the home and it was empty of furniture. Pam, our interior designer / stager, brought in all of the furniture, books, lights, plates, blankets, and whatever else you see in the above images. Our ability to work as a team proved vital to capturing vignettes of the home in just one day. As Kevin and Pam staged one room I’d shoot the room they previously built. Then, I’d move on to the next room and they would deconstruct the previous room, moving some of those props to the room I’d later photograph.

Architect - Kevin Wolfe Architecture