Architectural Photography - Learn & Share
Sep 18, 2016 21:22:41 #
If I like a building i will try to capture it even though I am not an architectural photographer.
This is the new library at Macquarie Univesrity (Sydney, Australia). With my wife singing in the university choir I get to spend a fair amount of time there.
Both pics shot, during summer evenings. Perspective correction is done during post processing.
#1 is from the south - single hand held shot with a standard zoom. A lot of the library is under the garden/lawn
#2 is from the north - hand held, 5 shot HDR PP'd in LR. A different day to pic #1. Notice the small figure for scale.
This is the new library at Macquarie Univesrity (Sydney, Australia). With my wife singing in the university choir I get to spend a fair amount of time there.
Both pics shot, during summer evenings. Perspective correction is done during post processing.
#1 is from the south - single hand held shot with a standard zoom. A lot of the library is under the garden/lawn
#2 is from the north - hand held, 5 shot HDR PP'd in LR. A different day to pic #1. Notice the small figure for scale.
Sep 18, 2016 21:24:06 #
mallen1330 wrote:
Architectural photography encompasses several sub-genres. We've seen some historical and rural landscape examples here so far. Here's some urban abstract or urban patterns. Google "urban abstract photography" for many greats....
Oh yes, those fire escapes are wonderful!! I am so attracted to contrasty (graphical?) black and white to begin with and these are mesmerizing.
We had a black and white share thread last winter in which someone posted a stark set of stairs curving up a water tower. I will find it (and that person) and see if we can get it posted here.
Sep 18, 2016 21:25:22 #
mallen1330 wrote:
Architectural photography encompasses several sub-genres. We've seen some historical and rural landscape examples here so far. Here's some urban abstract or urban patterns. Google "urban abstract photography" for many greats....
Well seen for pic #1.
Sep 18, 2016 21:25:25 #
RichardTaylor wrote:
If I like a building i will try to capture it even... (show quote)
Thank you, Richard! The light is so attractive on these beautiful buildings.
Sep 18, 2016 21:28:19 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Thank you, Richard! The light is so attractive on these beautiful buildings.
Thanks - it is easy with subjects like this.
Sep 18, 2016 21:35:09 #
I loved the quirky distortion from my ultra-wide angle lens and had no interest in "correcting" this one - lol
Sep 18, 2016 21:35:44 #
minniev wrote:
I liked that it gave me three overlapping structures, but unless I brought out the shadows a bit you couldn't see the plants. The plants seem so "Iceland", where the architecture really could be anywhere. That's about the best I can do 
Thank you!
Sep 18, 2016 21:36:36 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
I loved the quirky distortion from my ultra-wide angle lens and had no interest in "correcting" this one - lol
Good find.
Sep 18, 2016 21:38:55 #
rehess wrote:
I hope museums count. br br This is one of my fav... (show quote)
Nice shot. I like taking photos of the historic buildings I visit, and I always question whether to keep the signs in. Some are more problematic than others. This one looks designed to "fit" in with the setting and works. Do you try to do it one way or the other or does it vary case to case?
Sep 18, 2016 21:40:10 #
RichardTaylor wrote:
If I like a building i will try to capture it even... (show quote)
Wonderful building and very nice images. You got a lot of detail in that first shot. Your HDR is nicely done, I like the figure included.
Sep 18, 2016 21:40:12 #
Many, well at least my, architectural photos overlap with "street" since I like to portray the context and scale by including the human element.
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Sep 18, 2016 21:40:40 #
RichardTaylor wrote:
Love pic #1 - what great architecture.
I would like to second that it is indeed special.
Sep 18, 2016 21:46:09 #
mallen1330 wrote:
Many, well at least my, architectural photos overlap with "street" since I like to portray the context and scale by including the human element.
Have I used the word "mesmerizing" here yet?
I could gaze at #1 and #3 all night!Sep 18, 2016 21:46:43 #
minniev wrote:
Nice shot. I like taking photos of the historic buildings I visit, and I always question whether to keep the signs in. Some are more problematic than others. This one looks designed to "fit" in with the setting and works. Do you try to do it one way or the other or does it vary case to case?
I don't have a "usually". In this case, the only framing that worked for me included the sign.
added: on this particular day, I was working under a self-imposed discipline to use only one lens - a Soviet-built 37mm "Mir-1" M42-mount lens - which really limited my options.
Sep 18, 2016 21:48:44 #
minniev wrote:
Wonderful building and very nice images. You got a lot of detail in that first shot. Your HDR is nicely done, I like the figure included.
Thanks. The library has a great art section and a good photography section.
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