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The ‘look’ of the lifestyle photographer

April 27, 2010

What is it about roomset photography that gets our pulses racing? Most are certainly staged well, but is it the aspiration, the dream, something to wish for, if we won the lottery that is, that keeps us continually flicking through the pages of lifestyle magazines?

Any number of home magazines will provide us with any number of different lifestyle choices. Whether it is the thatched country cottage, the Georgian mansion, or the London town house, these magazines manage to cater for every taste. Also, the format is often the same. Many articles start with an overall picture of the featured house, then subsequent photographs take us through room by room to feast the eyes and the imagination.

Of course it is the roomsets and how they are staged that is all important. The owners of the properties, in conjunction with the roomset photographer, create the magic and the rest of us drool as the rooms take shape before our eyes. The narrative of the house often takes us through how the owners have bought it cheaply, then set about renovating it, cleverly preserving its many original features but knocking down a wall here and there. We then go through to the kitchen where the bespoke hand built cabinetry fits in perfectly with the ancient dresser that was put in when the house was built many hundreds of years before. Blue and white china adorns its ancient shelves to complete the ‘look’.

Whether getting your house ready for a feature in a famous homes magazine, or just getting it ready to sell, roomset photographers in Leeds and Yorkshire will create the magic that essentially is your home.