The human brain is a beautiful paradox. We have been bestowed with the grace of visualization and connect with what we could only imagine. We thrive on the visual narrative relating to an event with the version that suits us. To hold onto this visual connection, we capture it. Capturing a moment is freezing the moment right there to be replayed later.
For many, it’s a still,
for me -
it is where the
corner of my house
is lighted every
single day -
With different
shades to fill in.
An architect visualizes your imagination and creates a design for it. What adds value to it is a visualization of the space’s senses. A visual connection is knitted the moment a space is fathomed through an architect's lens.
Photogenic spaces are an architect’s niche; They create a perception of an existing form. The frames that they play with, are designed through and through during the process.
Photography isn’t just a tool, but a language for an architect. We communicate our perspective and induce a thought by hitting the right frames per second. Architectural photographer creates images that are as bold and imaginative as the structures they are capturing. Great architectural photography must make the most of a structure's design and environmental setting.
The five years of extensive architectural studies inculcate sensitivity towards our built environment. To understand the perspective of an architect, and to deliver the perfect essence and purity of form, photographers need to have that understanding.
Photography isn’t just a tool, but a language for an architect. We communicate our perspective and induce a thought by hitting the right frames per second. Architectural photographer creates images that are as bold and imaginative as the structures they are capturing. Great architectural photography must make the most of a structure's design and environmental setting.
To produce the best outcomes, all you need is a unique perspective. You don’t need expensive gear or cameras to capture the beauty you visualize.
The foreground and background create an interesting play when captured with depth. This is added by selecting the right frame. A frame-within-frame creates an interesting composition, making it more inclusive.
The human mind cherishes an image that can be deciphered easily. A balanced proportion makes up for a perfect composition.
Light plays an important role in any photograph. It massively improvises the quality of the final product. Working in different time zones sets the subject in a different perspective.
An architect spends his entire life designing for humans and their needs. Given this, a human can be a part of your subject to make it more receptive and establish a scale. Apart from plain buildings, adding a human can sensitize the composition.
Establishing a human in the composition creates an eye level. This increases the connection a viewer holds with the image.
Playing with eye level can produce creative outcomes. A bird’s eye view or looking through the lens of an ant will add a different perspective to your regular lens.
In a frame, look for things apart from the buildings that create it. The tangibles - texture, and material, will give you an insight through the intangibles - feel.
The after-processing is equally important for any given composition. Basic editing skills through different low-end soft wares, that help you enhance your output are a must.
As a photographer, you should be able to put up a neutral vision for your audience and instigate a thought process. The final interpretation will be a result of an architect’s vision, your lens, and the common thought in the viewer. Architectural Photography is about a balanced transcription of a three‐dimensional world onto a small flat surface. It is also the testimony of the interaction between two closely related yet somewhat distinct disciplines, whose interplay has grown entangled recently.
