Daniel Farkas HND2B

RSA Morton Award research

Adobe Stock

Adobe Stock is the newest player in the game. Launching almost exactly two years ago in 2015, and with much admiration, it has some of the best qualities of each of the other sites while trying stay competitive in the market.They are fully integrated into Adobe CC software, specifically Lightroom. As a contributor, all you have to do is drop your photos in the Adobe Stock publishing area and it will upload it for you, ready for you to add keywords and titles. Not only does that make it seamless to upload content, but also makes it seamless for customers to test content within programs like Photoshop and InDesign. By integrating Adobe Stock into Adobe CC they make everyone’s lives a little easier. Submission Platform: Their submission platform, and content dashboard are completely modern. It’s almost as if Adobe looked at what everyone else was failing to provide and included it in their design, then built it from the ground up. It gives you individual stats on every photo, real-time sales, and a beautiful, easy to navigate interface. Submission Review Time:Adobe is ranks at the top for this one. They have been very quick and consistent to turn around images that are submitted. Submissions seem to get reviewed in just a day or two on average. Earnings:The earnings are neither good, nor bad. Adobe is a microstock site, meaning that you won’t earn much. However, while you might earn pennies on Shutterstock, you can earn dimes on Adobe. $0.20 is the lowest I’ve seen a sale for, and $3.33 is the highest (for their standard contributors). Recently though, I’ve noticed many images selling for $0.99. And in my mind, $1 per image isn’t all that bad, and can add up quickly. Content Approval: While they are only a microstock site, their pickiness for the technical execution and releases is a bit extreme. I’ve had photos rejected that were properly exposed night shots, for being “under-exposed” or a shallow DOF shot for “image out of focus”. Creative Freedom:The content they’re looking for is generic, wide market interest. They don’t want something they conveys an emotion, they want standard stock with smiling teeth, lifestyle, and bright environment.  Alamy

Magnum Photographers Jim Goldberg

https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/jim-goldberg/

George Rodger

Right time Right place

Ways of seeing 

Venture Photography

 For this brief I attempted 2 different photo shoots. My first try was the People’s palace in Glasgow green park. I have been amazed about that building for so long that I have the chance to do a proper architectural photoshoot about it. I visited the building on a sunny day in a late afternoon when the lights weren't too harsh. I used a 14 mm/f2.8 wide angle lens a 50mm/f1.4 standard lens and a tripod for the photo shoot. My aim was creating straight lines on my images. I knew that with the 14 mm wide angle lens it will impossible but there are plenty of ways to correct the lines in photoshop. I was satisfied with my images but unfortunately I couldn't use them because People’s palace is not a contemporary building. Anyway I am pleased with my images and I am also happy that I have some decent architectural images of that building. For the second photo shoot I looked up the contemporary buildings in Glasgow on Google then I decided to shoot my college building as my subject. 

      I took out a tripod and a 24-105mm/f4 lens from the store room and I shot some interior shots of the building. I chose mid day for the time of the photo shoot because most of the student were in class so most of the building was empty. I had some nice lights coming through the skylight windows which highlighted some details of the building and created some nice shadows. I decided to do the exteriors during the night time. The building nicely lit with colour lights during the night so it seemed a better idea than doing it bright daylight. After I finished both shoots I used photoshop and camera raw filter to correct my images. During the photo shoot I tried to achieve straight lines so I might have to do less post production work. However camera raw filter has a really good and straight forward option to correct vertical an horizontal lines on the images. I have been using this filter a lot , so I knew at the location shoot that I must leave enough space around my subject because I will have to crop the image.

      First I organised my images in Adobe bridge then I made some small adjustment in camera raw filter. I adjusted the exposure, shadows, highlight, colour and clarity then I used the transform tool to adjust straight lines on the images. I had to crop the images a loot because when we are using the transform tool it takes off the edges of the image. After I adjusted the lines I opened the images in photoshop. I photoshop I adjusted the image size and the colour balance then made some small corrections on the straight lines where it was necessary. For the final step I sharpened the images and organised them on A3 canvases. 

    After all I really enjoyed this task. At the beginning I was sceptical about this brief because I have never been interested in architectural photography but I must say I really enjoyed it and im going to practice it more in the near future. I would like to try a tilt shift lens in the future for better results.

Iwan Baan CityLife Milano- Zaha Hadid

Andrew Prokos

EMP Museum exterior 

Julius Shulman

Singleton house

Benjamin Antony Monn

Dave Wilson

Tilt shift lens


Perspective control lens is specialised lens that has the ability to moderately rotate the image focal plane with a pitch or yaw, as well as shew the image perspective. This is possible by additional design features that allows the lens to physically tilt, shift and rotate. Tilt shift encompasses two different types of movements; rotation of the lens plane relative to the image plane called tilt , and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane called shift. For professional architectural photography, these qualities are essential for keeping buildings squared and in focus. 
A tilt shift lens has 6 unique applications 


Miniature effect
 correcting converging vertical lines 
avoid obstructions or reflections 
sideways tilt 
increasing depth of field 
panoramic shots

Telephoto lens

Gives a more realistic compression of object in the scene and to avoid perspective distortion. As a lens focal length decreases the amount of distortion increases. Telephoto lenses flatten perspective and reduce the sense of depth.

Large format camera

Sinar large format camera Sinar’s view-cameras allow both the lens and the film back or sensor back to move in rotation or linearly in any direction, thus allowing precise image alignment corrections. The sinar camera body is equipped with spirit-levels for all axis to facilitate levelling the camera. Once the camera has been levelled it can be turned into position without loosing level thanks to its built in 360 degree rotating mount.

Photoshop and post production

In Photoshop there are many ways to correct perspective on architectural images.The simplest way to fix the barrel distortion is to use the Lens Correction filter which accesses profiles of different cameras and will apply that profile to the image you have.

Under the custom tab we can remove barrel distortion and perspective errors manually.

Types of transformations

Skew

Slants an item vertically and horizontally.

Distort

Stretches an item in all directions.

Perspective

Applies one‑point perspective to an item.

Warp

Manipulates the shape of an item.