Architecture Photography for Architecture Students
What is Architecture Photography?
Why do we need to document the architecture?
Who needs to learn this art form?
How should one get better in this?
What is Architecture Photography?
It's an Art Form of documenting Buildings, Structures, Monuments, or Landscapes in the form of pictures for different purposes, It includes Real Estate, Construction, Interior, Exterior, and Ariel form of photography.
The important agenda for architecture photography is to make things look more aesthetically pleasing, Informative, and appealing to the viewer's eyes depending upon the purpose of the picture.
Why?
When we try to learn this art form, a major chunk of the style of photo you are going to make, composition, lighting and every aspect around it will depend upon the question, Why?
1. To Build your portfolio as a professional and sell your work
2. To create archives & records for future use
3. For Publishing
4. For Informative and educative purposes.
Things to keep in mind :
a. For Whom You Are Shooting this picture?
b. How the design approaches you as a first-time viewer?
c. What was the thought process behind the design from the architect's perspective?
Who?
It's a S(h)elf question
Sit Down, Look Around & Use Logic?
What kind of room is this?
For what purpose this room was built?
What are you doing here?
How different is this place from your home?
Why this place is different?
Where is this room located in the country, state, locality, and building?
How?
a. Texture & Shapes
b. Lights
c. Timings
d. Composition
Textures & Shapes
Lights
Timing
Composition
2 Point Perspective
Leading Lines
Rule of Thirds
Symmetry
Layers or Depth
How to make it better?
Hold your device perpendicular to the ground?
Clean up your frame!
Experiment with the angle to get unique perspectives?
