Lens Selection for Interior Perspective: Avoid Overly Wide Angles

Create an interior visualisation using a restrained focal length, resisting the temptation to make the room look bigger. Show the space photographed at an equivalent of about 28 to 35 millimetres rather than an extreme wide angle, so the proportions read honestly and the furniture at the frame's edges is not stretched or distorted. Detail the consequence: less of the room is visible, so the composition must be chosen rather than simply capturing everything. Show one corner of the room and one window rather than three walls, with the crop cutting through furniture at the edges as a real photograph would. Detail the verticals as perfectly parallel with the camera level, and the camera height at about 1.4 metres — slightly below standing eye level, the convention for interiors. Show the depth of field as moderate, with the far wall slightly soft. Detail the composition as balanced around one clear subject, with the rest of the room supporting it. Photorealistic, honest proportions, restrained, eye-level interior view.