[Thinking Artistically]
- use line to lead the viewer's eye through an architectural image
- lines help divide the image into sections
- a building's visual relationship to it's surroundings can reveal a great deal about it's "personality"
- pattern - the repetition of any of the elements
[Camera Settings]
- image sharpness and capture the smallest details
- selecting a smaller f-stop = greater depth of field
- the bigger the negative = the more detail it will capture
- slower film = the most detail
- finer grain film captures more detail = sharper prints
[Film]
- color films = emphasize color and setting
- black & white = emphasizes values, shapes, & textures
- commercial photos = magazines/brochures = color
- artistic photos = black
[Lighting]
- incandescent = slightly more orange
- quartz = somewhat yellow
- fluorescent = greener
- daylight = a lot more blue
- our eyes adjust to the different types makings them all seem plain white
- can't use more than one filter at a time to correct color
[Lenses]
- wide-angle = get back far enough to get the entire scene
- wider lens = more distortion
- upward = bottom of the building looks drastically wider than the top
[Camera Support]
- tripods = balance & stability
- monopods = work for walking around and shooting details
- long shutter speeds = need maximum support
[Filters]
- sky & clouds merge into a light gray shape = using orange or yellow filters will separate them
- bring out textures, more tactile or touchable quality
- polarizer = darkens a blue sky to increase the separation
- reduce/eliminate reflections in shiny, nonmetallic surfaces
[The Big View]
- big view = wide-angle view
- shows you the whole building
- perspective distortion = appears as strong converging lines in a building
- farther = less distortion
- far away = the sides of the building look parallel & straight
- shoot straight = flat & 2D
- front is side-lit = reveal more textures, forms, & shadows
- side = 3D = reveals depth, height & width
[Shadows]
- lines, shapes & values
[The Detail Shot]
- individual elements of a buildings interior or exterior
- reinforce the importance the craftspeople gave to the work they created
- more abstract
[Interior Views]
- overall shots of whole rooms or smaller details
- limited on where to place the camera
- look better when everything in the picture is in focus = greater depth of field
- as close as 4 feet & as far as 20 feet
- higher f-stop = more depth of field
- slow shutter speed = use a tripod
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