What are the shooting themes of architectural photography?

Architectural photography is the photography of buildings and structures, and only snapshots can be taken with a small camera. Most of them use large cameras with swinging structures to shoot. The following is the knowledge about architectural photography that I carefully recommend for you, hoping to help you.

Shooting thematic architecture photography has a wide range of shooting themes, which can be a building, a building complex, a region and a city; It can be the whole building or a part of the building; It can be outdoors or indoors. Photographers should be good at finding representative shooting subjects according to the use of photos. Such shooting themes are generally as follows:

A bird's-eye panoramic view reflecting urban and rural characteristics;

A large landscape reflecting the outline of urban and rural areas;

Street view or square public space;

Architectural groups;

A landmark building.

A building with personality can be manifested in its function, scale and shape, the texture and color of materials, and specific components, such as roof, colonnade, doors and windows, flower beds, steps and so on.

Beautiful buildings (beautiful external environment);

Historic buildings under special protection;

Environmental sketch, including sculpture sketch, landscaping and so on.

Realistic classification of works

Realistic architectural photography requires faithful expression of the architect's design intention and architectural function, and objective and true reproduction of the facade, side elevation, perspective and interior decoration of the building. In the past, architects or real estate developers often used architectural renderings to express the elegance of buildings, but they used more on-site photos, which would be more convincing. Realistic photographic pictures are usually used for commercial photography.

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Freehand architectural photography belongs to the category of artistic photography, which mainly expresses the photographer's subjective feelings about architecture. Photographers embody their own photography ideas by observing and expressing buildings. This way of shooting can completely get rid of objective restrictions. According to the photographer's understanding and feeling, the beauty of rhythm, color and composition of architecture is expressed by various photographic techniques.

Visual elements The form, line, scale, texture and color of architecture are the main components of visual elements in architectural photography. In most cases, the above elements will not appear in the same position on the screen at the same time, especially when the photographer needs to highlight a certain feature of the building. What visual elements need to be highlighted in a picture depends on the purpose of the photo and the photographer's creative intention and style.

Form can make people feel the depth of architectural space and the real world of three-dimensional space. When using plane photos to express three-dimensional buildings, the strength of its performance will largely depend on the use of visual perspective and shadows to improve the sense of space of buildings.

The outline building is a three-dimensional shape, but it often appears in the shape of two-dimensional space in human vision, and its most typical and simplest shape is silhouette. When the building is in backlight, the light comes from the back of the building. Under the strong light, silhouette becomes the main visual element of the building, while other elements such as space, texture and color are hidden in the shadow. When shooting, we should be good at using all kinds of perspective, light and shadow, and use and emphasize the expressive architectural outline to show the visual image of the building concisely, clearly and vividly.