Blog Notes pg.179-189

Architecture and Urban Landscapes

• pictures of buildings and homes in your neighborhoods, towns, and cities you create indirect portraits of people who live in them
• can be formal or informal
• people use elements of art and principles of design, created the buildings that make up or cities and towns

Looking Back

• beginning architecture was a popular subject for photographers
• Charles Negre

- artist and painter
- intended to se photographs as "sketches" for his painting but focused all his attention on his photography from that point on

• Frederick H. Evans

-one of the greatest architecture photographers in the history of architectural photography
-large part of work focused on cathedrals in London
-depicted emotion with the use of light
-"try for a record of emotion rather than a piece photography"


Photographing the Built Environment
Thinking Artistically

• focus on the full-view of space and emotions connected to it (portrait)
• details of buildings/abstract
• personailty and relationship to surrounds
• pattern- repetition of any of the elements of art, usually a part of every image

Camera Settings

• for 35mm f/11 to f/22
• for large format cameras like 4x5 f/35 to f/64
• slow films (100 ISO or less)

Film

• black/white or color
• color- emphasize color and settings
• b/w emphasize values, shapes, and texture

Lighting

• important in interior architectural photography
• incandescent light is slight more orange
• quartz- yellow
• fluorescent-greener
• daylight- lot more blue in it

Lenses

• using wide-angle lenses- wider the lens the more distortion you get

Camera Support

• tripods always have balance portability and stability
• monopods, single-legged camera supports, might work for walking around and shooting details but they won't work for interior photographs

Filters

• sky and clouds form uniform light gray shape
• polarizer darken a blue sky to increase the separation between clouds and sky- reduce or eliminate reflections in shiny nonmetallic surfaces