There're a few things I've learned about shooting bathrooms over the years. First and foremost, designers are often proud of them and want them shot. Bathrooms are also usually quite small, and its my job to make them feel much bigger. Bathrooms often are full of amazingly reflective surfaces, so hiding lights and my camera and glares and other unsightly things which get reflected and bounced all over everything is a challenge. For any photo nerds reading this, I use a circular polarizing lens filter to cut some of this, and then the rest is careful Photoshop work. Oh, and no one wants to see toilets in their images, so typically, shooting a bathroom involves me crammed into a corner somewhere that the toilet isn't visible, glancing at no less than seven different surfaces to make sure that nothing is reflecting, and then doing yoga to get out from behind the camera/tripod/my body sculpture I've created while lining up the shot. All of that said, a well executed bathroom shot can be very rewarding to make and inviting to look at. I'm a fan of this one as its probably the first time that I've been happy about something reflecting.
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