Notes pgs.179-189

ARCHITECTURE & URBAN LANDSCAPES

• architecture photos are indirect portraits
• materials, style, and scale of a building all provide clues to the context of the building. 
• when you take pictures of buildings, you create indirect portraits of the people who live there
• can be formal or informal

LOOKING BACK

• why photographers loved architecture in the early beginnings of photography
• buildings don't move
• a lot of detail, varied tones, and values
• needed long exposures
• Charles Negre
• artist and painter
• used photos of buildings as "sketches" for his paintings

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• Frederick H. Evans
• considered one of the greatest architectural photographers
• took photos of English and French cathedrals 
• Eugene Atget
• self-taught photographer
• used old-fashioned equipment

PHOTOGRAPHING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

THINKING ARTISTICALLY

• can be a "sketch" of a place and the emotions connected
• exploration of abstract images
• use leading lines
• pay attention to space around a building
• a buildings relationship to its surroundings can give it its own personality
• pay attention to pattern

CAMERA SETTINGS

• sharpness very important so you can see small details
• greater depth of field
• slower films

FILM

• black & white vs. color
• color emphasize color and setting
• b&w emphasize values, shapes, and textures
• commercial vs. artistic
• commercial - magazines, brochures (color)
• artistic - B&W

LIGHTING

• color of lighting very important in interior architecture
• different kinds of lights
• incandescent - slightly orange
• quartz - slightly yellow
• fluorescent - slightly green
• daylight - more blue

LENSES

• wide-angle lenses
• camera and lens leveled
• tilt upward to distort images

CAMERA SUPPORT

• tripod and slow shutter speed
• balance portability and stability
• monopods

FILTERS

• yellow/orange filters can separate the sky and the cloud and bring out textures. 
• polarizer
• can darken the sky
• reduce reflections