K-7 Building Photographs, Day Two of Three

This is the second post examining some building photographs from last week -- why they work, why they don't, and how they could have been better.


Paragon apartments building, near AT&T Park. Made from 16 or so photos. Corrected with lens correction. Also sharpened. I left a lot of the sky in to add some image drama. It looks vertical, but that's an effect created by the lens distortion filter. The clouds' drama was also amplified by the lens distortion.


A single shot, in-camera HDR. Took three similar shots with different bracketing. Borrowed a better sky from another shot, overlaid it, and reduced the transparency to hide the merge and make the color cast more consistent. Not an exciting shot, but workable. The plants in the foreground are a nuisance which can't be avoided from this perspective.

One nice thing about this shot is the elevated position -- about 25 or 30 feet above the BoA Building's parking lot. This leads us into an important lesson about photographing buildings: When possible, an elevated position balances the perspective better, leading to a higher-quality result.

1- When possible, photograph a building from an elevated position.