Tips for Architectural Photography

in monomad •  7 years ago  (edited)


I’m alway surprised at how hard architectural photography actually is. With street photography you deal with moving subjects and you have to make quick decisions, while with architectural photography your subject is still and usually you have all the time in the world to photograph it. Still its very hard to photograph a building in an original way, and your photo can easily turn out as an tourist snapshot instead of an interesting and cool photograph. Here some tips to create interesting architectural photographs, accompanied by some photos I took of the Heydar Aliyev museum in Baku.



Tip 1
Take shots of the building in different weather condition or at different times of the day as this can make a great difference on your shot.


Tip 2
Don’t try to get the whole building in the frame. Sometimes it can be cool to use a wide angle lens and get everything in, but I’m shooting with a micro 4/3 camera so I don’t really have that option. I rather look for cool angles and isolate a part of the building.


Tip 3
Add people to the frame. A great way to show the scale of what your photographing is by putting a person in the frame. Try to avoid getting whole groups of tourist in there, but wait for a quiet moment and get a lonely wander in the frame. 



Let me know what you think!


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Sick shots!
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Thanks for the support!

LOVE AND RESPECT for you ......i should follow your tips....

Great tips, mate! As an Architect myself, I have to agree on all 3 solid tips you gave. Every structure has their strongest feature and that's one thing to exploit by the photographer.

And by the way, just by looking at the curves of that structure, that's got to be Zaha Hadid's work right?

Thanks! Yess you are correct!

She's my favorite!

Excellent photography & such a wonderful view. @studlovers

Wonderful, the beauty is in the details ;)

Thank you!

I agree adding people to the frame does compliments the photographs.

It sure does!

Nice . Agree about getting just one lonely wanderer in there. Do you ever use tilt shift lenses ?

No I havent, but I shoot micro 4/3, do they make tilt shift lenses for those?

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Really nice shot and useful tips ;)

Thanks for sharing your tips and great photos of a one of my favourite buildings! :-) You can check out my shots of that place here if you want!

Will do!

Very useful tips. Second tip very important. To take good photo people should look at the building as art. Try to find some interesting part of one big thing

Beautiful work. Do love black and white for architecture photography. Minimalism is spot one!

Thanks!

👍 Bruikbare tips! Really nice images in black and white, that show that these tips work in practice.

Bedankt!

Beautiful architecture shots! And good tips too. Trying to capture the essence of a structure is difficult

Thank you!

I think Samyang do.

Great entry and I agree with all three of your tips. I love taking architectural photography myself and it trains your eye to find the perfect angle to create an interesting shot.