You can take an architecture photo almost anywhere.
Everywhere you look around you can already see something cool architecturally.
But how do you make a cool picture of that?
In six steps I explain what to look out for and how to make a beautiful architectural photo.
Step 1: is to do a good research, which subject you want to photograph.
Step 2: is to bring the right material.
Step 3: is to find the perfect spot on location.
Step 4: is to photograph and adapt.
Step 5: check your image.
Step 6: is to select and edit your photo
In these 6 steps I take you with me how I work.
I'm Luc Büthker, I'm an architecture photographer.
I work for various magazines and architects and I always try to make
an interesting, exciting image.
With this video I hope to inspire you so you can make a very cool image of yourself.
What do you need to make a fascinating architecture photo?
Of course your mobile and laptop to do research on the building and the weather conditions.
In addition, you also need your laptop to edit
and select your images.
What's also handy is to take the camera with you, well the most handy
is of course a wide-angle lens, certainly a preference
I myself choose the tilt-shift lenses that's always my preference.
And although what you should definitely take with a lap is a tripod.
Think carefully about what kind of building you want to photograph.
Do you want something new or old?
Just walk through the city and see what you like. It's important to do good research.
If you want to photograph a building,
Make sure it's accessible.
Look for example if you can come in or if you can drive
with the road to it.
In addition, it is also useful to know when you want to photograph?
Sunrise, sunset or what light you want.
Take a good look at the position of the sun and which facade
is in the sunlight or can be in the shade.
Also check what kind of weather it will be.
These are all things that need to take rain into account. Do you want to be in the sun?
Do you want to be in the light? Do you want to be in the dark?
You have numerous apps where you can easily see what kind of weather it's going to be.
It is therefore important to do good research.
I'm starting out to cost you an incredible amount of time, but the more you do,
the more you do, the better you get at it.
I take a picture with a full frame camera.
But of course you can do it with any camera you have in your hands.
The advantage of a full frame camera in my opinion is a larger dynamic range and a larger angle of view.
What architecture certainly can't do without is a wide-angle lens.
We have the 15-35 here.
The advantage of this is that you can go really wide and also
a bit less, but it's actually a kind of wide angle zoom lens.
The advantage of this lens is definitely the angle of view, so it certainly goes with it.
The camera here is a 24-105 in it.
Advantage of this one is that you have a nice wide lens
So you have a nice wide angle but because of the 105 you can still zoom in.
So you can take a facade in detail or see a building in its entirety.
So it goes with me.
I photograph myself with a 44 millimeter tilt shift lens
that's one of my fixed lenses in my bag.
That always go with me, actually always on my camera, so it goes with me too.
One thing that can't be missing in architecture photography. Is a tripod.
and tripod is actually.
the place where you actually stand.
Put it all in place and just as well have a quiet look at the images you are about to make.
So certainly I never shoot without a tripod
Then you can take it easy, take it easy. So this one will always go with you.
Once you're on location, it's important to find the right place.
Take into account the directions of light, directions
of lines in the image and of course the building itself.
It leads interesting angles. So find the most interesting angle.
In addition, your foreground is very important, what do you want your viewer to look at?
Do you want them to go along with a line, towards the building or away from the building?
And what is the function of a building?
What do you want to show? That's very important.
If lines run towards the building in the foreground, your image is enhanced.
It becomes interesting for the viewer to look at the image.
So that's always great to use.
The most important thing when photographing such a large building
is of course to get the whole building on it.
The top of the building shouldn't fall off.
I have a trick I use the tilt shift lens
But you can also point your camera up a bit and then you can put
in Lightroom or in Photoshop.
Then you still get a very tight building, because the lines have to be straight of course.
The building doesn't fall for
Architectural photography is actually quite simple, for me then...
I actually just have two default settings.
ISO is at its lowest ISO 100.
For example if your camera can go up to 50 then ISO 50.
I never go higher than 400 and an exception eight hundred
Besides my aperture 8 or 11 I have the perfect sharpness of the lens
and I have an image that I can have the whole building in focus.
And then I just play with the shutter speed what the light allows at that moment.
Dare to look at the perfect position for the image.
Seems you can really make a difference with a
step to the left, to the right, to the front, to the back
Think we're going to move a bit.
Of course with cameras you have a live function
that you can easily see what a step to the left or to the right does.
Yes, I think we've found a perfect position here to make a very
great image of a building.
Ideal is of course to use all those level lines that can be turned on. Be sure to use them too.
So you can never perfectly level your image at all times. But small bits help.
And of course you can always set it a bit later in your post-processing. Let's have a look.
If you think you have a good picture.
Check it out, it's razor sharp, it has everything you want.
And if not, just a few more, because you're here now anyway.
it's easy to make a few more than a few too few.
Besides that you really shouldn't be satisfied with the setting.
Come back another day.
Maybe the light is different people.
Then you can give a completely different picture.
The last step is of course editing and selecting your images.
Yes, the most important thing I'm looking at is of course, the whole building is on
. An advantage is, if it's okay, you've already paid attention to that while photographing
so you don't have to pay as much attention to that. Because that image is already correct.
Then it's actually often searching for which image do you prefer?
Then we've found the cool image that we're going to edit
When editing I mainly pay attention to the colors, the exposure
of the sky in relation to the subject.
Of course you never want the sky to be completely white
You actually want to be there, but we did see some detail to see if there are clouds
First of all we had some pretty nice colors that we can see again.
And of course you don't want things to be black or overexposed
if you have followed all this step.
Then a nice architecture photo should come out anyway.
If you want to get started with architecture photography yourself,
follow these six steps.
Step 1: Research into an interesting subject.
Step 2: Bring the right material with you.
Step 3: Find the perfect spot on location.
Step 4: Photograph and adjust if necessary.
Step 5: Check the image.
Step 6: Select the best photo and edit it after
I think with these steps you're ready to photograph yourself.
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Thanks for watching and have fun photographing.