Hard won pro tips and architectural photography advice from Mike Kelley, an award-winning professional architectural photographer, and Eric Reinholdt, an award-winning architect, as they critique and review this year's APA Architectural Photography competition submissions. They discuss Eric's shortlist selections as a competition juror and a wide ranging set of topics from the use of human scale, lens choice, post-processing, color, composition, drones, techniques and much more. Categories considered + awarded: ➕ Emerging Talent ➕ Photo of the Year ➕ Project of the Year
This is a long one, but every section has information gleaned from a combined 50+ years of professional architectural practice.
▬▬▬▬▬ Timestamps ▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Intro 02:10 Emerging Talent Entries 06:15 Human Scale 08:43 Shadows 11:24 Descriptive vs. Mysterious 13:38 Why Architects hire Architectural Photographers 15:50 Styling..More or Less? 17:58 Photoshop it or, leave it? 22:00 Can't unsee it 22:38 Open Frame in Middle 23:56 Fires in Fireplaces 25:41 Photo of the Year Entries 28:18 Reframing an Iconic building 30:50 Rendering or Real? 33:55 Eric’s Photo of Year Selection 34:45 Gratuitous Drone Shots 39:00 Project of the Year Entries 39:46 Exterior vs. Interior Shots 41:05 How do you enter? 42:58 The Art of Processing 44:40 A Little More Zoom 46:09 Eric’s Project of the Year Selection 46:50 Reality of Construction 47:45 Sensitivity to the Architecture (Horizon) 49:00 “Every Corner Represents a Problem to Solve” 50:00 One shot, multiple uses 51:00 Where are the people? 51:55 Searching for a Clear Subject 53:25 Share what you know
