Use the navigation tools to zoom in to see the detail… This is a view of downtown Charlottesville Virginia on a summer day in 2011 taken from the summit of Montalto, which is adjacent to Monticello. Historic landmarks like the Rotunda at UVA are visible as well as newer landmarks like the Charlottesville Pavillion. The…
Category Archives: Architectural Photography
Architectural images often require some retouching to help focus the viewer’s attention on the structure and its architecture and away from irrelevant visual distractions. Scroll down to see what was done to take this photo from the “before” version to the “after” version. 1. The lawn hadn’t been established and was enhanced using Photoshop. 2….
Simply put, dynamic range is the range of brightness values, from shadow to highlight, in a given scene. Cameras don’t have nearly the dynamic range of the human eye. When a scene is high in contrast, the camera can’t record all the disparate brightness levels. Either the shadows will be recorded as pure black or…
There are many ways to capture the source images for stitched panoramas. These range from hand-holding to using specially calibrated panorama heads. Today, I’ll discuss an approach that uses the shift feature of Canon’s 24mm tilt shift lens to create a vertically stitched panorama. One reason for creating a panorama is to capture an entire…
All photographers face the challenge of finding a unique perspective. Typically this means choosing a particular lens, an unusual camera angle or special lighting. As an architectural photographer, sometimes the challenge is more mundane: getting around foreground obstacles that are blocking the view of the subject structure. One tool in my arsenal is an extra tall…
