Comments on: Wed. Inspiration - Architectural Photography

By: Real Estate Photography

Real Estate Photography — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:29:38 +0000

once again thanks you guys are supervb in work,
if you are looking for real estate photography visit at: http://www.sydneyrealestatephotography.com.au/

you article is much helpful for me
thanks matt

By: Bill Millios

Bill Millios — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:52:08 +0000

Martin (and others)

I happen to know that both Thomas and Scott’s work is all in-camera - no HDR, no multiple exposures combined in Photoshop.

They’re actually coming out with a DVD soon that will explain their techniques.

By: Doug Cranmer

Doug Cranmer — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:28:17 +0000

Matt–

Thanks for a really great post recognizing some fellow real estate photographers. Scott and Thomas both involved in a phenomenal online real estate photography community which is a great learning resource at:
http://photographyforrealestate.net

And the associated Flickr group where members of the community display work at:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/photographyforrealestate/

A number of real estate shooters also post setup shots (which Scott Hargis did on a recent shoot of his) which help others learn good positioning technique for using multiple off camera strobes as I and many other real estate photographers typically do.

Another really excellent architectural shooter is M. James Northen whose portfolio is at http://jnorthen.com/.

I’ve used the Kelby 7-Point System (usually a few of the points) on a number of my images with nice results. Keep up the good work “Photoshop Guys”, Photoshop TV rocks.

Doug Cranmer
http://CityLifeImages.com

By: Thomas Grubba

Thomas Grubba — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:10:00 +0000

Hello Matt,

Thanks so much for the recognition. With all the hours I put in I’m glad someone noticed.

As for Martin’s comment - I shoot a mix of ambient and strobe, mostly SB-800’s. If you or anyone else wants to view more of my work and some details on the lighting, please visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7442799@N08/ for my personal profile or: http://www.flickr.com/groups/photographyforrealestate/ for the Photography for Real Estate Group. They have some excellent members and discussions about lighting interiors and HDR.

Thanks again,
Thomas

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:03:00 +0000

Matt,
When you get more info about shooting architecture will please share what you learn? Maybe do some step-by-step tutorials on set-up ,lighting and exposure.

-Thanks

By: jk driggs

jk driggs — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:02:46 +0000

Matt,

Once again —thanks! you guys are a well spring of info!

Another photographer you might check out is my friend (and former employer) Alan Blakely. He does great architectual work!

http://www.blakelyphotography.com

jk driggs

By: Toby

Toby — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:00:07 +0000

Hey Matt!

Thanks for the links to Scott Hargis Portfolio and the interview! Nice portfolio and lots of information in the interview - great!

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:27:03 +0000

I find a lot of the regular architectural work to be like so many real estate displays, competent and descriptive, but not exactly in tune with the ‘architecture’. Randy’s was certainly the most interesting of the three.

The Portugese work of Fernando Guerra however was really good to see - thanks ZM for pointing that out.

I’m still in awe of some of the work of the Swiss photographer Hélène Binet http://www.helenebinet.com/. Although her own web site is not the best, you can get an idea of her breadth here: http://www.arcblue.com/search/helene-binet/12/1/.

From the UK, Tim Soar has some good work also: http://www.soarportfolio.co.uk/

By: ZM

ZM — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:17:40 +0000

Try to take a look at:
http://ultimasreportagens.com/ultimas/index.html
It is the site of a Portuguese photographer, almost totally dedicated to architecture photography. I think he is one of the best architecture photographers in the world.
Thank you for your suggestions.
ZM

By: Martin Chamberlain

Martin Chamberlain — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:56:45 +0000

Matt,
You mentioned analysing the mix of available and artificial light. Another very useful way of dealing with extremes of dim and bright natural light (for example, a shot of an interior but which includes a window view) is to take a number of shots (on a tripod) at different exposures (varying the shutter speed, not the aperture) and either merge them in HDR in Photoshop or just manually layer them with masks to use the optimum part of each image. Looking at Thomas’s interior shots, I would guess this is what he’s done.

Cameras can’t cope with the dynamic range of the eye (yet!), so this is just a way of exending the range to achieve a correct exposure throughout the image.