I was commissioned to shoot a short timelapse sequence to become part of a rather fab 3-d architectural movie being produced by one of my clients www.uniform.net
While I’ve experimented with time lapse and stop motion in the past, actually executing a brief was so much trickier than doing it for ones personal fascination. The result of [...]
One of my pictures has been featured in an excellent article on Tilt-Shift lenses by Nick Wilcox-Brown on the Canon Professional Network website.
As it happens, the picture selected is one where I’ve used “tilt” to do the opposite of what an architectural photographer *should* be using such a lens for. Its a technique called ‘reverse [...]
Aaron Hibbert sent me an email in which he asked me the following…
“I really want to do interiors also. Is it all wide angle lenses?”
In the interest of internet sharing, I decided to answer him on this blog, hope you don’t mind Aaron…
The question of wide angles in interiors, or for that matter architectural photographs [...]
Sometimes its a good idea to get some extra height, many buildings look better photographed from a slightly higher vantage point, usually I can achieve this with a high tripod and a step ladder. We recently hired a Snorkel Scissor Lift to photograph a farm complex along with its farm machinery. Our client needed us [...]
The platform is large enough to accommodate 3 people, the camera and a laptop on a stand. I found that it was better if I was alone if I wanted to cancel out the vibrations. The slightest movement set the platform swaying when it was at 6m height.
PDF LinkThis is an academic paper on the perception of sharpness in digital photographs. I find this fascinating because it confirms a belief that I have developed about why images scanned from film can still look better than a digital image of apparently the same number of megapixels.
To my eye, digital images look unnaturally smooth [...]
