This single bedroom serviced accommodation on Huntly Street Canonmills is just a five minute walk south of the Royal Botanic Garden. According to Wikipedia: “Formerly a small village, Canonmills owes its origins and name, in the same way as the Canongate, to the Augustinian canons of Holyrood Abbey who operated a mill here from the 12th century.”.
When I photograph properties during the day, I generally keep the lights off. The reason is that there is usually enough natural light coming into the house or flat that a resident wouldn’t need the artificial lights to function.
And if you look at interior design magazines, such as “interior designer”, you will see that they adopt this policy. This property is the exception that confirms the rule. Even during the day, one needs to have the lights on to live in the flat, because there isn’t enough natural light coming through the windows. This is especially true in the dining area, kitchen and bathroom where there is no natural light coming in whatsoever.
In order to avoid blown out highlights in the dining area photographs of this Huntly Street Canonmills property, I had to blend images with different exposures, just like I need to do when there is a window in the frame.
