Interior Photography in Hadapsar, Pune

Designer and client

A designer wants the work shown. A client wants their home shown.

Those are different photographs of the same rooms, and the difference is rarely discussed before somebody is standing in the space with a camera.

A designer wants the decisions visible — the joinery, the proportions, the detail that took three attempts to get right.

A client wants the space looking lived in and pleasant, which frequently means the exact styling a designer would remove.

Both sets can be shot in one visit and it takes a little longer rather than a lot.

What causes problems is arriving without knowing which is expected, and producing one when the other was wanted.

It is worth the designer and the client agreeing beforehand, and worth telling us if they have not, because then we shoot both by default.

It is worth asking whether the client has any objection to the space being photographed at all.

Designers occasionally assume agreement because the project went well, and clients occasionally agree reluctantly because they feel they should.

Neither situation produces a good shoot, and both are easily avoided by asking directly rather than assuming.

It is also worth agreeing who is present on the day and what they can decide.

A designer and a client both on site with different views about styling is the slowest possible way to photograph a room.

One of them, with the other's agreement, is considerably faster and produces a more coherent set.