2009-07-23_00145

I always found architectural photography challenging. Nature is more forgiving, but what man created is too "geometrical".

This image has good lighting that helps to convey the main feature: the stone used to decorate the façade of this building.

What is missing:

• The building has no base - i.e. a sidewalk or a small portion of the street might have helped; if you look at the image, there is enough sky space on top that could have been reduced in order to get to the street level (assuming this was the widest angle you could use).
• The perspective is distorted - without a special lens for architectural work (e.g. tilt-shift lens) the only option left is the perspective correction that can be applied later in post-processing; don't forget to shot in such a way that you can crop after correction without losing parts of your main subject. Again, using a wide angle helps. But getting farther away from the subject (if possible) helps even more (the perspective distortions are lower at narrower angles).
• The wire on the right top corner could have been eliminated in post-processing as well (e.g. using the healing brush in Photoshop). This is a really minor issue anyways.

See my attempt to fix the last two issues. And always try more that one shot of the same place using different compositions, lighting, exposure. Then you can select the better one.

I hope this helps.

Thank you.

This camera has no interchangeable lens, so this was the best I could do.

I guess I wanted to eliminate the parked cars on the bottom.

Now I am doing two photos from the same position, because I am also uploading on facebook; indeed, they are different.