Architecture, Patterns and Shapes

My images this month feature architecture in many forms.

You don’t have to show an entire building, just select an interesting shape, design or reflection. You can create an abstract or a distorted, refracted view of the world. Look for light. Side lighting emphasises texture, top lighting will give shadow, adding darker tones to the colour palette or contrast to monochrome conversions. Monochrome can remove images from reality and when photographing reflections, can create a fantasy world, an illusion. Look for lines, straight, angled or curved, to lead the eye around the frame, to create shape and form. Choose what you include in the frame and what you leave out, whether this is done in camera at the taking stage or a crop in post processing is up to you.

Experiment, take lots of pictures of the same subject but vary what appears in the frame, alter the angle by moving yourself around. If you have a DSLR, change lenses or zoom in and out. Change aperture to alter the depth of field and select parts of the image to be sharp whilst backgrounds ease into a slight blur. Perhaps you can change the height of the camera by getting down low or perhaps standing on a wall or just on higher ground. Try to record your image from a viewpoint that people are not familiar with because it is only snippets of construction but I wonder if you have ever considered their pictorial potential. The window reflection is from Somerset House and the archway from Marrakesh.

passionate photographers that look for unusual angles so when non photographers see your images they will question how you captured the shot, it will amaze or puzzle them, especially if they are familiar with the building. The colour images here were taken at Brighton Marina so you may recognise the

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