PHOTOS ARE TO BE TAKEN IN DOWNTOWN PORTLAND.
EXPLANATION: Think of this project as an exercise in finding shape and line. The shape and line you photograph will cut your picture frame in to geometry. How can you photograph shape and line (in architecture) so that the viewer's eye is led into the photograph, and kept there. You will look for leading lines, repeated shape, light and shadow, visual rhythm created by shape and line, etc. You are to make photographs that give us a section of your subject matter..
Leave the horizon line OUT of the photograph. By doing this, you will force yourself (your body) to be interacting with the space you are in differently. Your eye will see things in a new way.
Your composition should be cut and pieced solid structures, empty places, edges, shadows, light and dark, shape and line. Your objective is to give a detail of your subject.
A few photographers that would be interesting for you are: Frederick Evans (Cathedral photos), Albert Renger-Patzsch, Paul Strand (his 1915 photo of Wall Street), Berenice Abbott (photos of NYC), Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, and many more...
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:
Shape, line, angles, edges, corners...the geometry around you.
WHAT TO LEAVE OUT OF THE COMPOSITIONS:
trees, people, organic matter, etc.
TWO EXAMPLES OF WHAT TO DO:
WHAT NOT TO DO (Do not give us the whole structure)
JON DeBOER
Jon DeBoer architecture photography HERE.
5 Quick Architecture Photography Tips HERE.
A FEW VIDEOS TO INSPIRE
Kai Ziehl HERE.
A FEW LINKS:
ArchitecturePhotography.org HERE.
Jeff Wolfram HERE.
Mark Citret HERE.
Ben Schneider HERE.
Architecture Week Design Community board HERE.
A guide to architecture photography HERE.
50 stunning architecture photographs HERE.