This post documents a specific problem I encountered while photographing a California Closets installation at the Tribeca home of interior designer Athena Calderone — and how a combination of AI generation and post-production discipline produced a result that would have been impractical to achieve any other way. It is a continuation of my earlier post on controlled AI workflows in architectural photography.

My photoshoot with HGTV host Ty Pennington of Rock the Block at his New York City apartment for California Closets. A behind-the-scenes look at a high-profile interior and portrait shoot.

Over the past year, I’ve developed a controlled workflow for integrating still-to-video AI into my architectural photography practice. My goal has not been to generate architecture, but to extend the precision of architectural photography into motion—without introducing the physical compromises that traditional video capture often requires.

Cover Photoshoot with Puzzle Mastermind Will Shortz

In December 2020, I got the assignment for a celebrity cover shoot with Seth Rogen and his wife, Lauren Miller Rogen, in Los Angeles. The story was highlighting their nonprofit organization educating about Alzheimer's disease.

A couple of weeks ago, I photographed the mayors of White Plains, NY (Thomas Roach), New Rochelle, NY (Noam Bramson), and Yonkers, NY (Mike Spano) at my studio for a cover story in Westchester Magazine titled Power Players.

Most finished images of my architectural and interior design photography are composites of several exposures to improve the dynamic range and contrast. The exterior retail photograph below of the California Closets flagship store in New York City is a rare example of an image based on a single exposure. Move the slider to see the image straight out of the camera and after retouching.