I thoroughly enjoy architectural photography shoots and the challenges they bring. Having studied engineering, I fully appreciate the processes involved and the significance of the end results.

From commercial offices to industrial power stations. From themed restaurant chains to accommodating hotels. The nature of the architecture I'm commissioned to photograph is varied. Man made interiors and exteriors are carefully and thoughtfully designed, using all manner of architectural technology and materials. The interior and exterior architectural photography I produce needs to clearly represent that.

Buildings and interiors

Buildings and their interiors are very often things of beauty as well as form and function. They interact differently with natural light at different times of the day. Interiors and exteriors interact differently again with artificial lighting after dusk. Light and dark, shadows, shapes, forms, symmetry, asymmetry and how they all interplay within a given environment is always unique. How we experience these spaces can often alter our perspectives and our moods.

That's the beauty of great architecture. Hence, it's important to capture the very essence of a building or interior in order to effectively convey this.

Therefore, as an architectural photographer, I'm required to pay particular attention to lighting, colours and textures. Also, there are the dimensions of physical scale and proportion to factor in to each carefully crafted camera frame. All this, while fitting in to whatever slots and slivers of available time there are to be had in often busy working environments.

Panoramics or panoramas

For many years now I have been providing some clients with panoramic views of internal and external spaces. Each is 'stitched' together from a number of high resolution single frames. These, then produce single 'cylindrical' renders of buildings and landscapes. Because of the data cature of the individual frames, these renders can have file sizes comfortably in excess of 500mb. Hence, they can be enlarged to cover entire walls. This is how Nat West has used many of my panoramas, as part of their recent major nationwide branch refit.

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