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jatin.architect
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 Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject: can anyone teach me photography online? |
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| I'm an architectural student.....wanna learn photography.....so if ne1 has the power to teach it online plz do tht favour |
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AP
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:54 am Post subject: |
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| Surely that's an impossibility. It'd be like learning the trombone over the internet. Why not just buy a good book? The internet can't solve everything. |
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Kevin
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject: Architectural photography basics |
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Here are some quick basics on architectural photography.
1) The biggest single issue that distinguishes most architectural photography from other photography is the dominance of the two-pont perspective.
If you study the classics of architectural photography by the likes of Ezra Stoller ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810938162/artificeinc ) and Julius Shulman ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3822872040/artificeinc ), you'll see that most images are carefully composed as two-point perspectives, with some one-point persectives, and just a few three-point perspectives.
Most of the tricks of the trade have to do with getting those two-point perspectives, and getting them right.
2) Probably the next set of issues have to do with lighting, which is important and distinctly different between the exterior and interior.
Outside, the sun is generally very important. And since the subjects in architectural photography tend not to move around a lot, that means being conscious of and working with the time of day.
3) Even though photography of architecture is often called upon to present a somewhat stylized or perfected, idealized view of a place (not unlike fashion photography or product photography in that regard), there is usually also a documentary component to building photographs. (Pure art pics of buildings would be a different category than architectural photography.)
As a result, relatively small apertures with long depth-of-field are appropriate for most exposures. That's in contrast, for instance, to candids of people, where it is often very effective to use wide apertures for the shallow depth-of-field effect known as "bokeh", where the subject is sharp and the background blurred, concentrating attention on the subject.
4) The primary equipment specialization for learning architectural photography is a wide angle lens, or a very good very-wide-angle-zoom.
You need wide angle for much interior photography, to work around limited viewpoints in urban conditions, and as an aid in achieving two-point perspective using off-center camera aiming.
And for architectural photography your wide angle lenses need to be good ones, because the straight lines in many building views (and parallel ones, in two-point images) create a very low tolerance for barrel distortion. A bunch of good technical camera review sites online go through many lens options in detail.
http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/reviews/ef-s_10-22_review_2.html
Some start-up camera advice is here:
http://www.designcommunity.com/forums/topic-13033.html
And here are a few example images...
In a classic two-point perspective, the direction of view is looking along a strictly horizontal vector, neither up nor down (actually a tiny bit off upwards in this example, but close enough to give you the idea):
Photo, Courtyard · Allewelt House · near Modesto, California
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Allewelt_House.html/cid_20060413_kmm_img_3316.html
Nearly one-point perspective, just a touch off-axis to one side, into two-point:
Photo, Rear Facade and Garden · Allewelt House · near Modesto, California
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Allewelt_House.html/cid_20060413_kmm_img_3288.html
Three-point perspective, looking up at an angle:
Visual excitement in the circulation spaces.
U.S Federal Courthouse, Eugene, Oregon
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/cgi-bin/awimage?dir=2007/0103&article=design_1-1.html&image=13320_image_2.jpg
Uncommon one-point perspective, looking straight up:
Photo, Courtyard Roof · Allewelt House · near Modesto, California
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Allewelt_House.html/cid_20060413_kmm_img_3406.html |
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