I lately had the opportunity to do a 1st interior & exterior architecture work.
My employer asked me to illustrate our new building for various publications and for a huge advertising place on the street.
This experience was exciting and really complicated at first: no budget so no special care done to the floor decoration, internal lightning, etc.
Some rooms (vip restaurant) were dimly lit but with huge windows letting the outside lights coming in. Cold lights from outside mixed to warm tungsten lights from inside + bracketing for hdr compositions made the final development really difficult. I couldn't produce natural tones - or even consistent colors on the different shots taken in that place. Color balance of that mixed lightning really changed when pointing the camera more to the window or more to the inside of the room.
The outside shot of the main buiding was also terrible: no sun during 2 weeks in my country (Belgium). Then some sunlights in the morning but shadows of trees darkening the buiding. Then trucks park in front of the entrance, then workers busy at the gate, etc.
I made 3 shoot atempts in a 2 weeks period before finally having an acceptable external shot....
So I really can't understand how people manage to earn money with architecture pictures ?
This will sound very naïve but, how are you dealing with all those things that can ruin a shot ? Are there specific rules dictated to the customers and asking them to take the necessary measures to clean the building from external unsuitable elements ??
But in this case, if the customer did accept and manage to avoid all those elements, if you had to travel 300km to reach the place, how are you dealing with bad weather conditions ? It shouldn't be a real concern in Phoenix, AZ, but in north of France, Belgium, Germany, weather is bad 10 months a year...
No really I don't understand how you architecture photographers manage to deal with all that :bugeyes: and I really :salute: those that succeed in.
And of course it would be great to share some experienced feedback !
My employer asked me to illustrate our new building for various publications and for a huge advertising place on the street.
This experience was exciting and really complicated at first: no budget so no special care done to the floor decoration, internal lightning, etc.
Some rooms (vip restaurant) were dimly lit but with huge windows letting the outside lights coming in. Cold lights from outside mixed to warm tungsten lights from inside + bracketing for hdr compositions made the final development really difficult. I couldn't produce natural tones - or even consistent colors on the different shots taken in that place. Color balance of that mixed lightning really changed when pointing the camera more to the window or more to the inside of the room.
The outside shot of the main buiding was also terrible: no sun during 2 weeks in my country (Belgium). Then some sunlights in the morning but shadows of trees darkening the buiding. Then trucks park in front of the entrance, then workers busy at the gate, etc.
I made 3 shoot atempts in a 2 weeks period before finally having an acceptable external shot....
So I really can't understand how people manage to earn money with architecture pictures ?
This will sound very naïve but, how are you dealing with all those things that can ruin a shot ? Are there specific rules dictated to the customers and asking them to take the necessary measures to clean the building from external unsuitable elements ??
But in this case, if the customer did accept and manage to avoid all those elements, if you had to travel 300km to reach the place, how are you dealing with bad weather conditions ? It shouldn't be a real concern in Phoenix, AZ, but in north of France, Belgium, Germany, weather is bad 10 months a year...
No really I don't understand how you architecture photographers manage to deal with all that :bugeyes: and I really :salute: those that succeed in.
And of course it would be great to share some experienced feedback !