Hi, I'm now in this community and quite new in photographing. Now I've got an idea starting to shoot architecture and wonder if you other users have any nice tips for me in terms of this kind of photographing.

For example, what to think about, what to avoid, and so on.

Thanks in advance!

PS. If you wonder about my equipment, I've got the E-P3 and soon have the 9-18mm lens from Olympus for M43. DS.

Architecture is one of my passions.  (check out my gallery at jordansteele.com for a bunch of samples). 

Cityscapes are one thing, and you can get some great cityscapes using standard composition and framing the buildings well (I tend to do perspective correction in post processing to make the buildings straight, unless the whole idea is the distortion).  This is just like shooting anything else.

However, since most any interesting building or structure has likely been photographed a bazillion times, I always try and find a unique way of looking at something.  Find a detail or a convergence of lines, or a new angle and try and use the buildings to create something new.  It takes a lot of practice but can be really fun.  Some examples of what I'm talking about:











Or some more conventional shots:

Using the "distort" feature of PS to make the verticals parallel on 6,7,8?

The verticals are parallel on some of these wide angle photos. That can only be achieved with the optical axes being perfectly horizontal or with using photoshop. The first approach would most always require substantial cropping unless your lens has a "slide" feature. I was just wondering if he used PS.

Thanks for your response Jman. I don't think this was ever discussed on this forum. I always was wondering wether the transforms were widely used. I use them occasionally. I sometimes don't like the "natural" perspective when shooting downwards. Often it looks just wrong when the vanishing point of the vertical lines is below the picture.

Great photos!