How to shoot urban buildings?

Lead: Architecture is the crystallization of human wisdom and the concentrated expression of urban culture. Every eye-catching city, in addition to unrepeatable scenery, architecture is an eye-catching element. Let's take a look at how to shoot a good building with me.

Beijing Yinhe SOHO, a beautiful building complex, not only created a flowing organic interior space, but also became a striking landmark architectural landscape in the adjacent East Second Ring Road. One theme of the design is to create an inner world by drawing lessons from China's courtyard thought. At the same time, it is a completely 2 1 century building: it is no longer a rigid rectangular block and the space between blocks, but creates a continuous and coevolutionary shape and continuous movement of internal streamline through the mutual coalescence, fusion, separation and reconnection of plastic and circular volume. Beautiful Galaxy SOHO, futuristic, pure, white, multiple keywords appear in your mind, a perfect experience. Only when you are in it can you feel the shocking beauty of Galaxy SOHO.

Grasp five key points to shoot the building well

1. Shoot in the early morning or at dusk, when the lighting conditions are the best.

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The choice of light is also one of the most important factors in shooting architecture. My suggestion is to choose early morning or dusk as the latest shooting time, when the light is softest. Beautify buildings with light.

2. Shooting up, down and head-up shows the all-round aesthetic feeling of the building.

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Overhead: the internal structure of a building.

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The external structure of a building.

Looking for the aesthetic feeling of geometric lines inside buildings

Shooting the lines inside Yinhe SOHO Building can generally show the width of the space inside the building, so it is best to use a wide-angle lens. Angle of view is also critical. I went up to the roof of the top floor and bent down to take this photo. The shooting time was before 10 in the morning. When the sun is not very strong, if you wait until noon, there will be obvious shadows.

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Looking up: the structure inside the building.

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Looking up: the structure outside the building.

To find a local structure with a sense of lines and frames, we should not only pay attention to the overall structural beauty of the building, but also pay attention to its local structure. When shooting in the morning, we should strive for innovation in composition, light and scenery.

Break the conventional composition method

The 1 figure below shows its tension with a wide-angle lens. The following two pictures are enlarged with telephoto, which reflects the beauty of the lines of the building. Avoid messy lines in the picture.

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Zoom in on the details of the building with a telephoto lens and combine the lines with the sky. Become the main body of the picture.

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Head-up: symmetrical composition method is adopted. When shooting buildings on indoor floors, the topic of symmetry center should not be sloppy, and it needs to be estimated from top to bottom.

3. Walk around the building and find the best shooting angle

Use reflection or reflection to enhance aesthetic feeling.

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The immovability of buildings may make people think? Shoot or not, right there? . However, as long as you turn around from different angles, you can make the building have a completely different visual sense. In the middle, reflection? And then what? Reflection? Most people are used to it.

If we take architectural glass as the focus of framing, we must first have keen observation. If you have selected a building as the shooting object, you can walk around several times, find some places where you can shoot by reflection, wait for the best opportunity after the landscape investigation, and shoot after the light and other conditions are met.

In the afternoon, the angle of the sun becomes oblique, and the sunlight becomes soft without strong feeling, which is most suitable for expressing the aesthetic feeling of the building. Coupled with the reflection of the ground, the reflection of the building is more vivid, and this composition is very eye-catching.

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Perspective composition method

Architectural composition needs to be concise. I use frame composition to make the structure more three-dimensional. The choice of lens is 35mm or 50mm focal length. Avoid distortion.

4. Use the charming blue and bright artificial light source in the night sky to set off the building.

Shooting buildings at night is another taste. Use night lighting (such as neon lights, building lights, long exposure light rails, etc.). ) to set off the building itself, thus enriching the visual elements of light in the picture. Generally speaking, when shooting this kind of works, we should pay attention to the exposure balance and use a tripod to fix the shooting to avoid image shaking. If the camera can't fit the tripod, we have to use a higher ISO.

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Take the above picture as an example. In terms of lens selection, I choose 35mm or 50mm to avoid distortion, because the shooting point I choose is far away. Finally, warm colors are enhanced for cold buildings to enhance the contrast effect between the sky and buildings.

Precautions for shooting:

A. Choose weather shooting, preferably when the sky is cloudy.

B shoot up or down inside the building to get a perfect sense of space.

C. When the sunshine is sufficient, use the polarizer CPL to make the sky bluer. For the external glass of the building, the reflection can be removed.

D. If you walk more, you need to find the best shooting angle, and take photos with LED, which makes it more convenient to take photos and maximize the enjoyment.

E. look for the light and shadow effect inside the building to make the building more three-dimensional.

6. Choose sunny and cloudy weather to photograph the exterior of the building.

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Many times, the buildings we photographed are very dull and have no three-dimensional sense. There are several reasons. The sky lacks a sense of hierarchy. If there are clouds, it will increase the layering of the sky. If you want to highlight the building, you need to use a wide-angle lens. Distortion will make the building stand out in the picture. Install a polarizer CPL in front of the camera to make the sky bluer and avoid the reflection of the glass outside the building.

7. Perspective composition method

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Lines play an important role in the picture, which can guide the viewer's line of sight, make the picture have stronger visual impact, find the center of the symmetrical structure of the building to shoot, and realize multiple sense of space. The composition is mostly taken by symmetrical composition method. If you are worried that your hands will be unstable and empty when shooting indoors, you can use a tripod to shoot or improve the sensitivity.

8. Shoot after the rain and make the ground look like a mirror.

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Just after the rain, the ground is still in a state of water accumulation. Under the reflection of the sun's light, the reflection of the building in the water was photographed. Add people to the picture to make it more vivid. Avoid the camera from getting wet when it rains, and you can shoot with telephoto. Or put a raincoat on the camera. Avoid the lens from being affected by moisture.

9. add prospects to architecture

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The shooting time requires shooting in the rain or shooting in glass with water droplets. I choose to shoot indoors through the water drops on the glass, use a large aperture, close to the glass surface, and use a wide-angle lens to make the picture more impactful. In this way, the spot effect of the foreground can be realized.

10. Find the most beautiful light

The light at night is the most dazzling in a day, and the sky is blue, not completely dark. Neon lights at night add mystery to the building. Exposure is to pay attention to the LED lights, and do not expose for a long time to avoid excessive explosion. Try to control it within 10 second. If you want to shoot at a wide angle, shoot at the wide-angle end of 16-35mm.

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Sunset is the most beautiful light.

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When the street lights in the building are on and the sky is not covered. The shooting technique of night scene has been described in great detail in the first two articles.

1 1. Use reflection to increase attraction.

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Reflection enables the building to be extended and repeated, bringing changes and hazy beauty to the picture and increasing the appeal of the picture. Whether shooting buildings or landscapes, we should pay special attention to the use of reflection when there are water features around. Reflection can make the building extend and repeat, and expand the expression range of the picture. At the same time, it brings changes and hazy beauty to the picture, adds appeal to the picture and brings visual pleasure.