How to shoot urban architecture

Shooting skills of urban architecture 1. Grid-line assisted shooting

For modern architecture, it is very important to keep the building horizontal and vertical; In the actual process of shooting buildings in urban scenery, most of them are shot from two perspectives: overhead shooting and head-up shooting. At this time, one trick is to open the grid line of the mobile phone for auxiliary shooting. Shooting can overlap with the vertical line of the building through grid lines, and the horizontal line is parallel to the skyline or auxiliary lines, so that the theme of the photo can be horizontal and vertical;

2. Triangle method

Using the symmetrical relationship of the building itself to compose a picture, this composition brings a more balanced, stable and formal picture sense; This kind of picture can be composed by using the composition line of mobile phone shooting function and combining with the unique symmetrical structure of the building; In urban landscape architecture photography, most people choose left-right symmetry, which can make the picture regular and steady; Up-down symmetry is usually presented by the reflection of glass and water, which is rare in the photographic composition of urban landscape architecture;

3. Diagonal method

Many times, when shooting urban landscape buildings, you can find the connection of some lines through the viewfinder, which is not as good as poor roads, scattered buildings or street trees, and will form diagonal lines; Diagonal composition can make the picture get good perspective and depth effect, and the lines of the picture can attract people's attention, thus making the picture more vivid;

4. Alignment method

Because the relationship between buildings is relatively disorderly and complex, in order to highlight the theme of shooting, our composition will put the theme of the picture in the middle of the line of sight, thus making the picture simple and clear and attracting people's attention;

5. golden section

The golden section method is also the most commonly used method in urban landscape architecture photography, and it is also the most used and basic photographic composition method in daily photography. When shooting a scene, put the subject you want to show at the golden section of the picture, which can highlight the subject and make the picture look active, and the whole picture looks vivid without losing the sense of balance;

Step 6 extend the cable

Using the direction of the lines in the picture to guide, and finally to a certain position in the picture, the composition method of this guiding line is called extension line composition; The composition of this extension line from near to far gives viewers a strong sense of space and depth;

7.s curve method

When shooting urban landscape architecture, there are not many S-shaped curves in the building itself. At this time, as the other parts of the whole picture, we only need to look for the elements of S-shaped lines in the picture with our heart; S-shaped composition can still bring beautiful and harmonious composition effect to the picture; Urban landscape photography is mostly an S-shaped extension line composed of lines of roads and some rivers.

8. Closure method

This composition method is widely used to photograph the extension of stairs or corridors, and to make composition through special spatial extension;