- Architectural photos are indirect portraits
 - How do you bring the personality out?
 - The Materials, style, and scale provide clues about who the people were and what their lives are like.
 - Framing help focus on certain buildings, and create variety.
 - Looking Back...
 - Early films were notoriously slow and need long amounts of time for exposure
 - This is why Architecture was a perfect subject! (It didn't move, and any amount of photographers could find something new to accentuate)
 - Elements of photography can be easily found in buildings
 - Fredrick H. Evans
 - Famous architecture photographer
 - A large part of his work focused on cathedrals in London
 - He depicted emotion with light
 - Told people to "Try for a record of emotion rather than a piece photography"
 - Worked primarily in platinum papers (Early form of developing process)
 - During WWI, platinum was used for making bombs
 - He dropped photography forever rather than changing his process
 - Three Types of Architecture Photography:
 - Interior
 - Big Picture
 - Small Detail
 - Ezra Stoller (1915-2004)
 - Influential architectural photography in 1960's-2000's
 - Left his career of Architecture to take pictures instead.
 - Thinking Artistically:
 - You can focus on full View of the space and the emotions connected to it, like a portrait.
 - Or focus on the details!
 - Patterns
 - Patterns are dominate in Architectural Photography.
 
-Babs
No comments:
Post a Comment