Home Interior: Photo Shoot for my new Website (including the bloopers)

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Photo Shoot for my new Website (including the bloopers)

This week I completely re-arranged my living room for a photo shoot. My Web Designer/Brand Manager recommended that I get more ‘lifestyle’ feeling photos that say more about me than just a ‘head shot’ for my new website. So since my dining room is not yet finished, I couldn’t be photographed sitting on my sofa in the middle of the room (where it is now), so I pushed it up against the wall. . . and left the right side blank for copy since these photos will be on my new website.

Sofa is custom made, Fabric: Poly/cotton velvet from Pace Fabrics

I didn’t know if he would want me sitting on the Barcelona, so I moved it into the dining room too. Here it is set up with lights from another angle.

Wall Colour; BM Natural Linen 983/CC-90

Here is my awesome team, Marvin Magallanes at Cielo Brand Associates, Jennifer Houghton, my photographer and my friend Jill McDonald from Reflections Interior Designs who came to spend the day with me to help out!

Above photos by Maria Killam

You can see I left my raspberry wreath up on the mantle, until I do something spring like with it, I like the hit of colour. Can you believe just one photo took 3 hours? This is a sneak peek of the process. My idea, and it was bad (but that’s why I have a stylist now) was to do something casual like this photo of Sarah Richardson:

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So I got into my favourite jeans and a long sleeved t-shirt just like she was wearing. . .

She took one photo and it was back to the drawing board (my closet). . . eeeeeeek! As you can see by this shot, the lighting hadn’t yet been adjusted.

This dress looked really awful as well because your eye goes straight to the big pattern on my chest. Definitely NO.

Here are two of the final photos. Marvin ended up picking the outfit that worked the best in the end. An excellent art director as well as web designer!