Show Us Your Best Natural Light Architecture Photographs
Check out the full video of Mike Kelley and Lee Morris critiquing the best "natural light architecture photos."
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World-renowned architectural photographer Mike Kelley, made light painting buildings mainstream but sometimes, natural light is the best choice. For this next critique, we want to see shots that were taken without any additional strobe light.
Heavy retouching/Photoshop is allowed in this critique, but we want to know how you captured the shot. Is the image basically straight out of the camera or did you blend 5 different exposures together in post? Maybe you blended time together by compositing images together taken over the course of minutes or hours. Make sure you explain how the image was achieved in the description box of each upload.
Mike Kelley will be a guest judge for this critique and unlike past critiques, the highest-rated image WILL NOT win a free tutorial this time around. Instead, Mike will be able to give out two free tutorials to images that he really likes.
Each photographer can upload a maximum of three images, and images without descriptions will be disqualified.
Sat, 09/12/2020 - 02:00
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25 Comments
The image above looks like a 3D render.
36:00 I think the lighting is somewhat interesting. Nonetheless, I do agree with Lee about the composition. The composition as is would make more sense to me, if the curtains were opened as it would drag you into the ocean. Now it looks like blown-out highlights. And the lights hanging down the ceiling are so jumbled up. Or is that art?
37:30 Very well spotted, Lee! I actually like Lee critiquing architecture. It's a nice combination with Mike. Lee goes more towards the "perfection" look - as much as I do in my architectural work - while Mike has gone a long road toning it down. Really interesting. And I think both have very valid POVs in this critique.
Are interior shots that are normally lit with artificial light (say a church or subway station) allowed? The rules mention no strobes, but I take that to mean no intentional addition of artificial lights...thoughts?
Thank you guys for critiquing my photo. Always love your input.
It took me a while to shoot it from 6:30-8pm. No flash, multiple exposures.
I saw the bad sky on the top left but if I cropped it it would crop the street light that I liked a lot. But I might 😀
Lights built into the structure are fine, I just don't want the photographer adding their own lights into the shot.
"Rain" River! hahaha It's pronounced "rine".