From the course: Architectural Photography: Exteriors

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Getting a grand vista shot of the home

Getting a grand vista shot of the home

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Getting a grand vista shot of the home

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So we just got the contextual shot of the house shot away from the house grounds on the bluff just down the coastline a bit. And that will put the house in context. We'll now see the ocean, the rocks, the cliffs. We really know now where this house is. That's in contrast to what we did last night, when we were photographing the exterior of the house with the windows glowing. Because I wasn't able to shoot over any real landscaping. I'm going to hide, basically, by using darkness. To hide the foreground, to allow, then, the shape of the house to really come forward, and to be the star of the show. So we never got sunlight for the breadth shot, that's what I was really hoping for, we're waiting and waiting for the perfect time to be able to make that happen. And it never came. So I went ahead and did the shot. Got the angle done, but normally I would have waited. We'd call today a weather day, and we'd wait for tomorrow hoping for better sunlight. I wouldn't go home with the shot that I…

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