Photographing Buildings - Working Angles

[numa1930]

Hello to all, I'm new to the forum and I wanted to make my second post here with a photo I took yesterday in Milwaukee WI of a building that I have to include on a website that I maintain.

I'm new to photography (1 month) and I just purchased my copy of Aperture last week.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

All the best

Gregory

[Stephen]

Re: Photographing Buildings - Working Angles

Hello to all, I'm new to the forum and I wanted to make my second post here with a photo I took yesterday in Milwaukee WI of a building that I have to include on a website that I maintain.

I'm new to photography (1 month) and I just purchased my copy of Aperture last week.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

All the best

Gregory

Gregory, is it OK if I call you Greg it sounds less formal. Welcome to the DPNow forum. I see you are a Mac user too, there are not many of us on this site so it will be intersting to hear how you are getting on with Aperture. I tend to use Lightroom, and though that's mainly because it was first purchased in my PC days, I found that Aperture was not offering me anything extra worthy of note so I stuck with LR.

I like your photo, it benefits from a nice blue sky and great relections on the river. You have managed to keep all your verticals spot on with no distortion.

I read in your post earlier that you had used the vignetting tool. I think this is good. However I think the effect could be used even more in the bottom right if only to take the eye away from the litter (trash) and other rubbish in the water and amongst the bushes. You could even crop some of that out, but it may spoil the aspect ratio of the shot.

I like the way the branches break up the sky, but there is what looks like a mark on your sensor along the top of the image and this should be cloned out.

[kennykodak]

Re: Photographing Buildings - Working Angles

i agree with Stephen. first and foremost, you do have a piece of dust on your sensor. try to dislodge it with a squeeze bulb and Never use a can of compressed air. it leaves a residue that makes cleaning it even harder next time. ideally this shot should be redone after leaves are on the branches. this will make the client look environmentally friendly and more inviting. also implies life. if this is not possible i would crop as mentioned by Stephen and photoshop out all of the limbs i could.