Architecture and urban landscape

Architecture and urban landscape

• ·         Photographs are indirect portraits
• ·         The material and style of the buildings provide clues in which hoe peoples life’s are
• ·         Indirect portraits
• ·         Modern societies can also give us clues about our own lives
• ·         Great way to examine the formal aspects of design
• ·         Same styles of composition work for both kinds of subjects
• ·         Photography can be formal or informal
• Looking back
• ·         Architecture if a popular subject for photographers
• ·         Early films were notoriously slow and needed hours of exposure for one image
• ·         1840 Charles Negre an artist and painter living in Paris, France began to use photography to create studies for his paintings
• ·         British photographers Frederick H. Evans is considered to be one of the greatest aritexture photographer in history
• ·         Eugene Atgets a former French sailor and actor turned to photography in the late 1890 when he was 40
• ·         Paris and it surrounding towns had amazing architexture
• Thinking Artistically
• ·          Photographers can simply be a visual recording of buildings appearances
• ·         Focus on just the details of a building
• ·         They used lines to lead the viewers eyes though a building
• ·         Divided you image into different section for a better picture
• ·         Observe the space that surrounds the objects and building
• ·         The structure setting is really important
• ·         Reveal a great deal about a buildings personality
• ·         Buildings have patterns and have repetition
• Value and Texture
• ·         The difference or range of value is called contrast
• ·         Accentuate texture which is tactike or touchable.
• Film
• ·         Architectural photographs can be either black and white or color
• ·         Generally architectural photo’s cane be divide into two types commercial and artistic
• Lighting
• ·         Lighting and the color of  the lighting is really important t=in these types of pictures
• ·         Incandescent light is slightly more orange and somewhat yellow
• ·         Making the various types of light all seem like plain white
• Lenses
• ·         Keep in mind that the wider the lens the more distortion you get
• ·         You see an exaggerated perspective with  the bottom of the building drastically wider then its top
• Camera support
• ·         If you like slow and fine film and a lot of depth you need a slow shutter speed
• ·         Balance and stability
• ·         Lightweight tripods are usually not very stable
• ·         Single legged camera supports might work for walking around the shooting details
• Filter
• ·         Black and white there are some filters that can improve your image
• ·         Yellow and orange filters make the sky look better
• ·         Nice tactile or touchable quality to your print
• The big view
• ·          Photographers use a wide angle lens that captures the entire scene
• ·         Perspective distortion
• ·          You see less distortion in professional photography
• ·          They should also decide to take the picture from a portrait or landscape angles
• ·         Architecture photographs relies on the big view
• ·         Shooting from the side usually creates a three deimeional photo
• ·         Combined with the side lighting it visually creates the picture
• The detail shot
• ·          Detail shots in indvidual  buildings interior or exterior create and detailed shot
• ·         Individual element of a building from the entire structure requires a observant eye
• ·         A telescope lens is good for detail shots
• ·         Coulums are a great detail shot for architecture
• ·         City with modern buildings are really good for new detail shots
• Interior views
• ·         The exterior photographs tend to provide indirect portrait of the creators of buildings
• ·         The big view is important
• ·         You will need a wide lens to get entire room
• ·         When you take a detail shot and provide great depth and detail
• ·         For interior you will need to be about 4-20 feet away for good shots
• ·         Another complication occurs when you want detail in photohgraphs
• Berenice Abbott (1898-1991)
• ·         THE VALUE OF BEING A SELF TAUGHT ARTIST IS WHGAT SHE DID
• ·         At the age of 20 she moved to Paris to become a sculptor
• ·         Her work cauterized by exquisite lighting and interesting poses and precise
• ·         His realistic, care boned approach to photography with a new and fresh outlook