[LargeFormat] Tips on Architecture photographs

[Vincent Dobson]

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<:)Behalf Of Dan Kalish

<:)Subject: [LargeFormat] Tips on Architecture photographs
<:)
<:)
<:)As I'm getting more experienced with Large Format photography, I find
<:)myself drawn towards architecture.  There are many such opportunities in
<:)New York City what with all the landmarks. I'm even developing a
<:)different
<:)outlook on the City: noticing the way buildings blend in and don't block
<:)the views.
<:)
<:)I can learn about the landmarks but want to get more proficient
<:)with this
<:)type of photography.  Any recommendation on books?  Organizations?  Is a
<:)Gandolfi Variant I with 210mm lens up to the task?  What about
<:)permission
<:)and permits?
<:)
<:)I can see myself ultimately picking a landmark, such as Grand Central
<:)Terminal, and doing a project around it.
<:)
<:)Dan the K.
<:)

You will find yourself needing a much wider angle lens (unless you are
talking about an 8x10 or 11x14 camera).

Permission and permits would be the stickler.  After 9/11 we are finding
more and more of our liberties eroding.  Homeland security regs. and
safeguards are doing the eroding.  You can be innocently taking a picture of
(for example) a pond and someone might call the law with a hint that they
fear you are casing the pond in your planning to add poison to the water
system - things like that.

Many have reported being harassed for taking a picture of a bridge ---- and
more signs prohibiting said type pictures appear every day.

As for me and my house - it's back to nature.  In the woods you are
basically left alone, and squirrels don't report you - hmm, maybe my hermit
side is showing.

Vince Dobson
Visions In Nature
www.VisionsInNature.com