Learning Outcomes
The aim of is to teach students to create successful images of exterior architecture, and interior architectural design., by a highly competent creation of digital photographic image with accurate exposure, proper color correction, and excellent printing output. The successfully use of specific digital tools for the architectural image (free-transform/HDR) to correct distortion and capture mixed lighting with multiple exposures.
General Competences
- Comprehensive understanding of architectural lighting.
- Heightened sensitivity to light and how it strengthens architectural design
- Ability to use High Dynamic Range (HDR): multiple exposures to create dramatic architecture/interior images without additional professional lighting.
- Control of Parallax (Free Transform Procedure) to correct distortion and perspective so buildings do not look like they are leaning to one side or falling back.
- Creation of exceptional images with light and architecture, including dusk imagery.
- DSLR settings for architectural photography: RAW, shutter speed, aperture, ISO sensitivity, exposure, bracketing to overlay images, stitching
- Documenting Architecture: applying the knowledge gained in the course to an exterior or interior photoshoot
- Editing architectural photography: creating a strong selection of images to communicate a building
- Post-production tools with Lightroom and Photoshop: lens correction, white balance, layers, masks, adjustment layers, verticals, framing and more
Course Outline
This course is a thorough architectural photography through theory and practice.
Special photography techniques with natural and artificial lighting, special digital techniques, panoramic photography, indoor photography. Through lectures and practical exercises the student becomes familiar with photo shooting techniques and the equipment necessary for creating architectural photographs of interiors and exteriors. Students will also learn image post-production tools used in architectural photography -and will be introduced to the practice of editing architectural photography, necessary to create a concise and strong documentation of a building.
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Architectural Photography: Composition, Capture, and Digital Image Processing by Adrian Schulz
- Urban Photography by Tim Cornbill
- Professional Architectural Photography by Michael Harris
- Course notes
- Online resources
Course bibliography is dynamically formulated and is always available at the beginning of the semester through the Foundation’s asynchronous education platform.