For this assignment I built (pun intended ;-)) ) on what I learnt during the landscape assignment involving using light, but this time I wanted to try to use the light to illuminate the buildings, or elements of them, in different ways.
This time I had to be careful when using wide angle lenses, to avoid parallax (or converging vertical) errors which have marred many architectural photographs. By taking some architectural photographs from a distance using the 18 - 200 mm or 75 - 300 mm lenses, zooming in to remove distractions, and frame the building vertically in the viewfinder, I could capture the whole of the building, but without any of the above problems.
Ideally, I would use a tilt and shift lens for this type of photography, like the one shown below:
These lenses enable the camera to capture tall buildings without angling the lens up towards the top of the building, causing the converging verticals distortion.
Below is an example of using both normal and tilt and shift lenses:
But these lenses are very expensive, and have limited uses, so unless I wanted to specialise in this photography I would have to photograph buildings from a distance, or correct the images later in the post production stage.
Ideally, I would use a tilt and shift lens for this type of photography, like the one shown below:
Below is an example of using both normal and tilt and shift lenses:
But these lenses are very expensive, and have limited uses, so unless I wanted to specialise in this photography I would have to photograph buildings from a distance, or correct the images later in the post production stage.
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