Week 8 : 8.4.2011 - Architectural Interiors

This week we took a range of different photographs at the newly redone Belconnen Mall. I've never really thought of the mall as much of a photographic opportunity but since its renewal it is looking a lot better. Bright colours have replaced a lot of dull greys with interesting shapes proving to be some nice abstract images.

Some key points to remember when photographing architectural interiors is;

• What available light is there?
• Artificial light? eg. lamps
• Use of artificial and mix of natural
• Use viewpoint to emphasis features
• Framing
• Animated gif.
• Converging lines
• Flare
• Symmetry
• Reflections - May need to do HDR with all the lights off take a photo of the windows to reduce reflections
• Panorama
• ALWAYS stick to the brief before you explore the assignment futher
• Tilt Shift


HDR of Glass Lift - Two different View points




I enjoyed the HDR images of the glass lift and used a wide angle lens to capture this. I used photoshop to do some minor adjustments of some converging lines.

Abstract Images










Travelator



Bus Interchange Panorama



Interior Auto WB

Interior Manual WB

Interior Auto Exposure

Interior Manual Exposure


I really enjoyed this week’s workshop and found it to be very beneficial. I now have new view on the Belconnen Mall and it was useful to test out the tilt shift. I found it interesting the difference between auto and manual exposure as well as auto and manual white balance. It just proves how important it is to know how to use your camera properly to get the most out of it and to get the best resulting photographs.