From the course: Architectural Photography: Exteriors
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Shooting an exterior detail shot of a large modern house
From the course: Architectural Photography: Exteriors
Shooting an exterior detail shot of a large modern house
So I'm standing on the cantilever deck where we did the exterior detail. And I wanted to do a couple of things with this shot. One, I wanted to show the proximity of the deck to the house. The curved nature of the rail, the way it's designed. But also, I wanted to be able to see inside the house, the Eames chair, way out in the front corner. It's really a room with a view chair. At every opportunity, I like to create a chair or a place for the viewer to put themselves that is just the ultimate spot in the space So the camera placement really was dictated by being able to see the chair, in relationship to the concrete column, that the chair is next to. So I had to see in the window, but I wanted to get the relationship between the chair and the column, to be really harmonious. And that dictated exactly where the camera went. So after I got the camera there, there was no loading necessary whatsoever. Because there's so much gloss, it became a single exposure shot. The chair is primarily…
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