Photographing Architecture: Lighting, Composition, Postproduction and Marketing Techniques

by John Siskin

Essential for professional commercial photographers but with appeal for anyone who enjoys architectural photography, this book explains how to build better light indoors while finding the optimal positions for capturing images. Beginning with advice on understanding angles, controlling perspective, and becoming familiar with the tools necessary for capturing interiors, this guidebook then progresses onto explanations of various types of light, methods for manipulating them, and circumstances  under which different lights should be utilized. Also included throughout the book are example shots of homes, businesses, and public spaces followed from start to finish, illustrating the challenges of the shoot, how these problems were solved, and any work that required editing after the shoot.

Genres: Photography

160 pages, Paperback

First published December 2, 2011

Reviews

[Katharina · Rating 1 out of 5]

That book didn't do it for me at all. I didn't enjoy most of the pictures and felt taken aback by comments like "the client wanted that thing in the shot - that's why it looks cluttered". Uhm, makes me wonder why to include the photo in the first place. The locations are meh- it was a bit like a book on landscape photography and just shooting a complete flat area. Yes these are houses there with interiors. I also think the houses aren't too cheap BUT the "luxury" of them looks fake. A portraiture book where all the models wear spray tan.

In one shot the middle-unit of a kitchen is so prominently coming towards you and the rest of the kitchen almost disappears behind it. It looks like the Titanic of kitchen units is coming towards you and you are praying you are iceberg enough to sink that bugger.

It's called Photographing ARCHITECTURE - not how to shoot over-priced houses full of fake antiques for a sales catalogue.

Only the indications where he had put the lights etc to take a shot were a bit interesting. For someone who has many lights. And umbrellas. And gear. For everyone else - might appreciate that it's for someone else.

[Ginger · Rating 2 out of 5]

Has a few good tips but is geared toward someone with a lot of lighting equipment. The whole book mostly focuses on lighting.