Shoot the city scenery

Many tourists like to photograph the "urban forest" with magnificent buildings and beautiful external walls, from which the urban scenery is formed. The convenience of shooting architecture is that photographers can compose compositions calmly and choose different perspectives.

For professional architectural photography, it is best to use a shifting lens, which can adjust and prevent the deformation of the building. But ordinary photographers don't have this condition, so they don't have to be strong. Shooting buildings with different focal lengths will produce different image effects. We call a lens with a focal length of 50mm a standard lens, and the photos it takes are the same as our vision, which can best reflect the objectivity of things. Based on this focal length, the longer the focal length, the worse the perspective effect. The shorter the focal length of the lens (28mm or 24mm), the greater the deformation of the building, but the perspective effect is good, which can better show the depth of the picture and obtain a wide range of clarity.

Modern urban buildings are dense, and it may be difficult to move back and forth due to site restrictions, so short lens focal length is often used. Generally speaking, we usually use a wide-angle (24mm) to a standard (50mm) focal length. The advantages of shooting high-rise buildings with short focal length have been explained before, but the main disadvantage is the deformation of the buildings (big and small), because the appearance of the buildings is mostly straight, and the deformation is more serious when shooting from behind. So, short focal length is not suitable for shooting focal length? That's not true. We can go as high as possible to reduce the deformation of the building, and sometimes we can consciously shoot back near the building with a wide-angle lens to artistically exaggerate the dramatic effect of modern architecture.

Generally speaking, vertical picture shooting helps to show the grandeur of buildings or the depth of streets, while banner picture shooting can better show the forests of buildings.

From the point of view of the photographic light of buildings, the forward light (front light) or semi-side light is often used, which is beneficial to express the specific details of high-rise buildings; The front light makes the building have a great contrast between light and shade, showing a three-dimensional effect. Most of the external walls of modern buildings are embedded with glass, which is dazzling. In order to reproduce the details clearly, a polarizer should be installed in front of the camera to eliminate the reflection of the glass.