Clyde Auditorium (Armadillo)

Before

f/11 8sec ISO 100

 

• Applied lens corrections
• Added clarity and dehazed
• Sharpened with a USM
• Lightened with curves
• Desaturated slightly with a black and white layer at low opacity
• Cropped to a 5×7 ratio
• Dodged and burned. Especially the wall at the riverside which I also used another image for and masked in
• Used the clone tool to remove the red spot reflecting signage in the river as I thought it was distracting.
• Applied a high-pass filter

Print Test

 

Contact Sheet

I was there to photograph the Armadillo but when I was there thought about having a go at the Science Centre also. I took multiple shots of each on a tripod so I could mask details in.

Research

Ribbon Chapel by Eugene Wei

This is an interesting subject and I’ve seen many good photos of it, I chose this one because of the lighting and sky. I assume it was taken at dusk and the setting sun casts a beautiful light on the inside of the ribbon. The subject is in the centre and takes up most of the frame and the path leads your eye straight to the architecture.

 

Gewinner Residence – Architecture Magazine

Cool, Geometric building. Use of Rule of thirds and Negative Space. I like how the sky is light at one side and dramatic at the other where the large sharp edges are. I like the contrast of the warm lights inside against the cool tones outside.

 

Strobing – Mike Kelley

I watched the process of this image being made. Mike Kelley uses two speedlights to light the entire subject in stages and then layers the images in Photoshop. I thought it was quite an interesting thing to do. I have done this before but not with architecture!