Chapter 8 Notes

indirect portraits: pictures of the buildings and homes in your neighborhood, town, and city

• these photos can give an insight to people's lives
• this is also a way to examine
• interior
• detail
• big view

in history photographers used architecture as subjects for many reasons

• buildings are stationary
• ready subjects with alot of detail
• varied tones and values
• camera exposures could last as long as nessicary

 Charles Negre switched from painting to photography as a line of work

"try for a record of emotion rather than a piece of topography""-Frederick H. Evans

• evans was one of the greatest architectural photographers in the history of the medium

Eugene Atget, a french photographer photographed paris and its surrounding towns for 30 years and produced about 10,000 images

• use line to lead the viewers eye through an architectural image
• a buildings relationship to the things around it can reveal a lot about its personality
• pattern: the repetition of any of the elements of art 
• bricks, designs in a carpet, walpaper, arrangement of windows
• smaller f stop gives a greater depth of field
• a bigger camera format=most detailed images
• architecture photographs can be either black and white or color
• there are many different kinds of lights
• incandescent lights(regular household bulbs)
• quartz lights(modern spotlights)
• flourescent lights
• each bulb gives a different color white

taking the "big picture" wide angle lenses are very useful

• the wider the lens is the more distortion you get

tripods help capture the picture with a slow shutterspeed

• using a yellow or orange filter will sperate the clouds from the sky

• a polarizer can also be used to darken a light sky or take the reflections from glass down

• big view: the wide angle 

• perspective distortion: appears as strong converging lines in a building where the sides of a building angle in toward each other instead of looking parallel as they are in reality

shadows are their own subjects and can be cast against interesting pieces of architecture

detail shot: features of the individual architectural elements of a building