Architecture
Working with scale, line, and perspective when photographing buildings.
Architectural photography is largely about managing perspective and line. Buildings are rigid, geometric subjects, which means small changes in camera angle can have an outsized effect on how straight or distorted their lines appear.
Watch your verticals
Tilting a camera upward to fit a tall building into frame causes vertical lines to converge, an effect called keystoning. This can be a deliberate creative choice, but when unintentional, it often reads as a mistake. Shooting from farther away, or from a higher vantage point, can reduce this effect.
Details tell a different story than facades
A building's overall facade is only one way to photograph it. Details — a stairwell, a window pattern, a material transition — can reveal character that a wide establishing shot misses entirely.
