Landscape Photography

The effect of recent technological advancements in the world of cameras and lenses can not be overstated. When I first started my architectural photography business back in 1954, cameras were unreliable experimental machines and lenses were not only incredibly expensive but incredibly fragile too. Post processing was a thing of pure science-fiction; in fact sometimes you were lucky to get a usable print at all. That didn't stop us though; architectural photography was in our blood, and we were determined to tell the story of the buildings around us.

Over 50 years later and the architectural photography landscape has changed phenomenally. For years now you've been able to buy disposable cameras off a peg at a supermarket, and in recent years digital cameras have been integrated in to nearly every other piece of technology we use. Of course most people with an interest in architectural photography won't be using these super budget devices, but this added access to the technology has removed many of the barriers to people interested in taking up the activity.

At the enthusiast end of the market things have changed too, with top end equipment now being capable of capturing images that seem sharper and more colourful than that which our own eyes can see. Perhaps the most important difference nowadays is the addition of computer post-processing, which can allow the photographer to present their subject in ways impossible to recreate in real life. Although the most extreme examples of this fall outside the realm of architectural photography, with the technology available today we are limited by our imaginations only.

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