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architecture, art, black and white, blogging101, Canada, daily, photo101, photoaday, Photography, Places
Parliament Buildings
I looked at my email on Blogging 101, then headed off to check what theme was on the daily post (well it was Places when I checked at 8am GMT this morning!
), I then headed over to my email for Photo 101 and when I saw that it was on architecture, I had a little jump for joy, as I knew I could do a post to incorporate all three 🙂 All these photos were taken whilst my family was on holiday in Canada last year visiting my relatives.
Parliament Buildings (original)
The brief for Photo 101 was “”Study architectural forms, and also train your eye to look for shots that will translate well in black and white.”
I have taken quite a few photos of architecture since I started shooting in digital, it is not the genre that I feel most comfortable with, mainly I think due to lack of practice, but that does not stop me taking photos 🙂
Reflections of old
Reflections of old (original)
What is your preference, do you prefer these in black and white or colour, do my conversions work? (all of these were processed in Lightroom). I would LOVE to know what you think.
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church (original)
I have a few sites that I bookmarked as of interest on architectural photography, so thought I would share three of them here as I know it is something I would like to practice. After all there is architecture all around us and the UK has some very old examples as well as new for me to practice on:
- Photoblur – I loved the abstract nature of the photographs here and the 10 tips are very good.
- Exposure Guide – some good tips on architecture as well as other genres
- Light Stalking – a nice article with some good points
Expressing my vision 
The first B&W photo is really good 🙂
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Thank you @Drahul 🙂
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beautiful!
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Thank you @guenbt 😄
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Awesome post! Loving the black and white. Great job
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Thank you so much for saying so Lydia 😄
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Looks great!
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Thank you 🙂
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The black & white conversions work well…I love reflections so it’s number 2 for me…as a side note, I liked the bookmarks you posted, I think number 3 is exactly the same as number 2 tho’..? May I kindly ask, how do you do a link with just a word, for instance, the word Lightstalk takes you straight to that page? I have to write the whole url out…haha…(as in my last post).
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Thank you Angela, I am presuming you are referring to the two Canon links? One is USA and the other Europe and I have found different articles on them, so use both sites.
For the links I typed the word/words I want the site to link from, highlighted these, then using the “insert/edit link” button in the top row, right hand side of the editor (which will become active when you highlight), pasted in the address where I want that word to link to in the box that pops up. I always then use the option to get it to open the link in another tab. Hope this makes sense?
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I like both. They each have their own beauty in their own unique ways, depending on what emotion you would like to convey. But most architecture subjects would stand out well in monochrome just for the simplicity of lines and structure.
Did you use a filter here? I have a filter but don’t really use it because I really don’t know how to exploit its features. I thought I used it correctly but didn’t see any difference. 🙂
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Thank you, I used a polariser with these. I have a few filters but have not really experimented that much with them so far.
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Haha, I had to google real quick what a polarizer was. Polarizing filter, it says. I think thats what I have. I haven’t used mine in so long I forgot what it was called! 🙂
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🙂 worth having a play with, I have a circularising one and use it a lot with landscape type photos.
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I being Canadian actually l like the first shot of the parliament bldg. in black and white. It seems gloomy and sinister just like the parliament. OOPS I didn’t mean that (or did I?)
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I know what you mean Donna, thank you 🙂
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