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Architectural photography I am teaching photography in a art school. How can I teach them to visualise architecture as a graphic form? What approach should I take?
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Romen Vargas |
I'm no expert at this but I'll give it a try. Try to get them to think in forms of lines when they photograph something. For example if you are photographing Big Ben (the clock in London). Do they want to shoot it up close with a wide angle lens so that the you have _leading lines_ towards the face of the clock. Or they want to shoot from a flat angle from far away to get a 2 dimensional feel to the photo. Another example would be a tower. Do they want the lines of the tower to be parallel (in which case they shouldn't tilt the camera up) or do they want the lines of the tower to converge up the top? Like I said I'm no expert, but I tend to look for lines within things (not just buildings) that would help guide the eye to what you want to be the focus of the picture.
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John A. Lind |
First, still photography is all about light. I think of it as "painting" with light and capturing a short span of time with it. Second, I think Romen has got the right ideas. I've done architectural and composition in photographing it is all perspective, lines, texture and vanishing points, and where to put them in the image . . . the "rule of thirds" is usually very important . . . and the contrast that makes them prominent in light and its direction! Third, hard surfaces and bold, straight lines have a sense of power to them often associated with masculinity. Soft surfaces and curving lines have a sense of serenity to them often associated with femininity. Fourth, architecture without living things is "cold." People (or animals) add a "warmth" to it. If people are interacting with it, it gives the architecture a "purpose" and can "tell a story" about it. I won't say one is better than the other. Whether it is the "cold" or has the warmth of living things there, is completely up to the vision of the photographer for the image(s).
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