Property — 2026
Property photos Heidelberg: a house in Pfaffengrund
Property photos of a bungalow in Heidelberg’s Pfaffengrund: bright, calm and with straight lines, so you can find your way around the house before you set foot in it. A small confession: AI lent a hand with the two exterior shots, adding an evening sky, a greener lawn and a tidier terrace – I actually took the photos around midday on a grey day in February.
A bungalow in the Pfaffengrund garden suburb
Pfaffengrund in the west of Heidelberg was built from 1920 onwards as a cooperative garden suburb for working-class families, and it’s still full of greenery today. The house here is a detached bungalow with a garden and terrace, bright inside, with oak parquet and an open-plan living and dining area. I took the photos in February 2026.
Orientation first
With property photos, what matters to me is orientation. Anyone clicking through the pictures should understand how the house works: where you come in, how the rooms connect and which way the windows face. That’s why I like to shoot from a corner or through an open door into the next room. Views like these, from one room into another, show more than any single shot.
And the rooms should look as bright and as spacious as they really are. For white walls and pale wood, that mostly takes even light.
Exposure bracketing and straight lines
Inside I shot with a wide-angle at 16mm, each view as a bracket of three exposures that I then merge into one picture. That way the view out of the window isn’t blown out and the corner in the shadow isn’t black. Then I straighten the verticals so that walls and doors don’t lean – no converging verticals, in other words.
To be honest: AI in the exterior shots
At midday that day the sky was grey and the lawn was patchy. So AI helped out with the two exterior shots: it created the evening sky, made the lawn greener and thicker and tidied up the terrace and steps. The interiors are real photos, edited like any other photo. I’d rather point that out, because anyone looking at a house should know what’s real.
- Location
- Heidelberg
- Year
- 2026
- Genre
- Property
