Before & After

In Architectural photography, in spite of the fact that its primary goal is to ensure that designs are presented in the most flattering manner possible, is really a puzzle that needs to be solved.

Consider each puzzle piece to be a picture. 

My duty as a retoucher is to smoothly blend things together, ensuring that they not only make sense but also look amazing.

Tilt-shift lenses are not your average or standard lens, but rather the tool of choice for professional architectural photographers. Without having to reposition the camera, we can now see what was before out of view.

 

Picture 1:

 

Here, you can see how we had to compromise in order to take a photograph from which you could appreciate the scenery. The ceiling is obstructing our view in an annoying way.

As we can see in the before and after pictures, the ceiling was completely taken out and replaced with what we would see if we were standing in the area.

 

 

Image 2:

 

All the components that went into the final product are visible in this picture.

What you see here is the maximum framing that our camera’s lens allowed us to record. Each of these optics has a large field of view. That means there are no other ways to take pictures of the rest of the scene without moving the camera.

In other words, if you move the camera, the view will shift and thats is not the solution.

You can notice the lights on the wall, the smoothed out reflection of the refrigerator, stove, and other appliances, and the fact that the camera was unable to capture the button section of the scene.

Photographing an architecture is more than just taking a pretty image. It involves breaking down a scene into its component parts and photographing them so that they can be pieced back together later.

 

 

 

Image 3:

 

In this picture, the components of the puzzle and the impact of the tilt shift lens are both quite easy to spot and identify. The final picture is made up of three separate frames that have been combined into one.

You may have seen panoramic photographs of landscapes with lengthy edges, and this is the same precipice that was utilized in those photographs.

When conducting aerial photography for our customers, we almost always follow the same general guidelines. Our work consists primarily on producing highly detailed panoramic pictures of towers or the views from those towers.

Do you see the individual pictures that went into making this composite?