Chapter 8 notes

• Architectural photographs are indirect portraits.
• if you focus on the details of a building, it can be an exploration of abstract images.
• important key: use line to lead the viewer's eye through an architectural image.
• observe the space that surrounds the objects or buildings in your photographs
• also consider how a buildings surroundings can help make your photograph stronger
• learn to look for pattern in your photo
• architectural photography usually has as much sharpness in it as possible, no blurry
• big view- the wide angle overall view. this means that the photographer was farther away from the building being photographed or the photographer was using a wide angle lense
• perspective distortion-appears as a strong converging lines in a building, where the sides of the building angle in toward each other instead of looking parallel as they are in reality.
• farther you are from the building, the less distortion you'll see
• Detail shot-features the individual architectural elements of a buildings interior or exterior