Though it was great for the external photos, the bright, low winter sunshine led to some rather challenging interior kitchen shots. For the images below which look out onto the back garden, a fast shutter speed and lots of internal flash was needed, in order to remove the glare and shine of the exposure.

For the kitchen shot below, I flipped the lights around and created 'morning sun' coming through the window on the right. I used a very high shutter speed to block out ambient light coming from the left and to keep the breakfast bar area dark. By doing this, the eye automatically travels through the image and focuses on the centre of the kitchen.

The property was The Old Rectory, a gorgeous period home in a little village about five miles north of Ludlow. It was such a lovely place to photograph and you can see that it was also my first twilight shoot of the year!

In the last few weeks of 2019 once the property market had slowed down for Christmas, I took the opportunity to prepare some fresh new marketing material, ready to send to potential photography clients in the new year.

A key part of this involved experimenting with some new lighting techniques to really take my images to the next level, something I have written about here.