Architecture Research Task
examples of early architectural photography:
The first permanent photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras by Nicéphore Niépce, was also the first architectural photograph as it was a view of buildings. Similarly, photographs taken by early photographer William Henry Fox Talbot were of architecture, including his photograph of a Latticed window in Lacock Abbey taken in 1835.
Original plate (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right). The photo was found to be taken at his home from a second-story south-facing bedroom window.
Niépce captured the scene with a Camera Obscura projected onto a 16.2 cm × 20.2 cm pewter plate thinly coated with bitumen of Judea, a naturally occurring asphalt.
The Camera Obscura Niépce used, differs from a traditional analogue 35mm or digital equivalent SLR because it had a completely different printing/developing process method. A very long exposure in the camera was required. Sunlight strikes the buildings on opposite sides, suggesting an exposure that lasted about eight hours, which has become the traditional estimate. A researcher who studied Niépce's notes and recreated his processes found that the exposure must have continued for several days.
If working with a DSLR to capture architecture, using a wide lens or standard 18mm - 55mm is good enough to capture the whole building.
Brunetti exhaustively photographs each architectural detail close up, from small stone sculptures flanking a stained glass window to richly carved doors. And he can spend up to an entire year taking thousands of high-resolution frames of one subject.
Siena, Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, 2008–2017.
Brunetti would try to take these images at 5 or 7 in the morning so there's barely anyone around to ruin the scene. And he can spend up to an entire year taking thousands of high-resolution frames of one subject.
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