I don't have too many tips for you, but here is one that is in my project. This is the kitchen bench in a new house that I photographed commercially. Good luck with it!
Try to have enough light so you don't need flash especially in a white kitchen. if you do need flash, use a bounce flash. Don't shoot directly at something, rather at a slight angle. Have some prope, etc dish, flowers, tablecloth, teapot on stove, and other things that should be in a kitchen, but don't make it too busy
Clear all surfaces and make sure everything sparkles :). Yes - a few props... But only a very few... The one time I took pics in the kitchen my oldest son joked for days that the place never looked so good ;)
A good wide angle lens and tripod are needed. I've done some shots of the work my husband does in making old kitchens look new. I use a 16 - 50 (???) 2.8 wide angle on kitchens. I'm not too good at it yet, but I get some good shots. Problems: lighting! HDR comes in handy if the kitchen has mixed natural and incandescent/florescent light. You can see mine on my husband's website: http://interiorcosmetics.com/
Cool. I am not sure you are going to like the answer to this as it means some work. :)
1) Keep it simple with the items in the image. There should be lots of things distracting from what is the kitchen. If you need to move things out of the room to give it a sense of space then do so.
2) Ensure you have complete exposure across the entire image. What this means is that in every room you will have areas that are over exposed or under exposed. To get around this take as many images as you need to expose all areas of the kitchen and they layer them together in Photoshop.
3) Remove highlights. Ensure that there are no hot spots of highlights on the shiny equipment that are in kitchens.
4) Use a tri-pod. It kind of goes without saying that you should be using a tri-pod or you will not be able to get the multiple images but I figure I should mention it.
5) Use a wide angle lens. Use the widest lens you can get away with. What do I mean by this. The wider the lens the more distortion you will l have at the edges of the image. Ensure when you use such a lens that you keep the main part of you subject in the middle to reduce this distortion. You will also find that you will need to fix it up in photoshop.
6) I would shoot this at F11 to ensure that the entire image is in focus, however if you are shooting an image like Aleksandra has shown then that is a different story.
7) defuse the light coming in to the room. If you have open windows put up white sheets so the light coming in is nice and soft.
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1) Keep it simple with the items in the image. There should be lots of things distracting from what is the kitchen. If you need to move things out of the room to give it a sense of space then do so.
2) Ensure you have complete exposure across the entire image. What this means is that in every room you will have areas that are over exposed or under exposed. To get around this take as many images as you need to expose all areas of the kitchen and they layer them together in Photoshop.
3) Remove highlights. Ensure that there are no hot spots of highlights on the shiny equipment that are in kitchens.
4) Use a tri-pod. It kind of goes without saying that you should be using a tri-pod or you will not be able to get the multiple images but I figure I should mention it.
5) Use a wide angle lens. Use the widest lens you can get away with. What do I mean by this. The wider the lens the more distortion you will l have at the edges of the image. Ensure when you use such a lens that you keep the main part of you subject in the middle to reduce this distortion. You will also find that you will need to fix it up in photoshop.
6) I would shoot this at F11 to ensure that the entire image is in focus, however if you are shooting an image like Aleksandra has shown then that is a different story.
7) defuse the light coming in to the room. If you have open windows put up white sheets so the light coming in is nice and soft.
Well that should get you going. :)
Good luck.