Photographing small bathrooms is usually a challenge. It can be difficult to get the camera into the best position and your reflection is visible in mirrors and glass doors. Plus, a wide-angle lens creates lots of distortion in a small room.
A shift lens can sometimes be used to prevent your reflection appearing in a mirror or glass door. But getting all or most of a tiny bathroom in a picture usually requires some photo magic.
For the bathroom above, three photos were shot and later blended together to show a reasonably non-distorted bathroom with no one reflected in the mirror.
It’s always preferred to shoot just a single photo of a room because blending images can take a long time and the results may not always be good. So a photographer might use a fisheye lens to capture the entire view of a small room.
Fisheye lenses have that telltale fisheye look where the edges of the photo are wildly curved. A fisheye photo can often be “de-fished” to produce a reasonably normal looking photo. But de-fishing software is far from perfect and fully correcting a fisheye image can sometimes require a lot of work.
A customer may not always want pictures of a small secondary bathroom, preferring only photos of a larger and better looking ensuite bathroom. But when a small bathroom has to be photographed, there are ways to get good results.
