Some people (photographers mostly), like to call architecture a man-made landscape. If real landscape photography is about capturing the dignity and nobility of nature, architecture photography is about bringing out these qualities in human-constructed buildings. Architecture photography is all about finding a way to describe the craftsmanship evident in a beautiful structure.
To do this, you don't really have to go around hunting for really beautiful buildings. Have you seen how those old squat lowrise buildings in old Europe can often be photographed in a way that brings out how much life and culture there is in that land? All you need is the right way of looking at a building. Let's get a little deeper into the ways in which you can approach architecture photography.
You know how photographers like to focus on that gargoyle on the Chrysler building as a dramatic way of showing you how a huge building like that can have small and charming details as well? You could do this for practically any building – find some kind of beautiful part of it and photograph it at close quarters. You need take those three dimensions and depict them on two. There are all kinds of new ways of looking at them.
To do this, you don't really have to go around hunting for really beautiful buildings. Have you seen how those old squat lowrise buildings in old Europe can often be photographed in a way that brings out how much life and culture there is in that land? All you need is the right way of looking at a building. Let's get a little deeper into the ways in which you can approach architecture photography.
You know how photographers like to focus on that gargoyle on the Chrysler building as a dramatic way of showing you how a huge building like that can have small and charming details as well? You could do this for practically any building – find some kind of beautiful part of it and photograph it at close quarters. You need take those three dimensions and depict them on two. There are all kinds of new ways of looking at them.