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Atlanta Architectural Photography: 730 Midtown

 Posted on April 11, 2014      by admin
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This is some architectural photography I recently shot for an Atlanta based marketing firm. My instructions were to capture the shown building at the best angles, and also get shots of not just it, but the environment it was in. I wasn’t just trying to sell the building through my photographs, but sell its location as well.

So, I went out and shot what I would want if I were in my clients shoes: I gave them lots of options by deliberately shooting the building using more traditional compostions and angles, but also shot using more artistic perspectives too . My thinking was that if the art director / designer that worked with the images didn’t like one approach, they would likely like the other.

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The building is pretty average looking from a distance, so me getting right up on it like this and shooting it from unique angels gave it more of an artistic look architecturally.

 

 

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I did numerous shots of the signage on the building to give them multiple options to choose from. This one that I shot at the backdoor was a favorite of mine. There has been a good bit of perspective adjustment done in post production in order for it to look like it does here. This look could not have been achieved in camera without using a view camera. I’m pretty certain a tilt-sift lens still wouldn’t have gotten everything straight enough.

 

 

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I shot this one just to feature the landscaping / flowers out in front of the building.

 

 

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I was lucky enough to be given access to a Hotel Indigo room to take this shot from. I shot this one through the hotel room window using a polarizing filter to get rid of reflections in the glass. That is Peachtree Street you see, which is Atlanta’s most well known street and one of its busiest. You can get most anywhere you need to go in Atlanta with instructions based on going either North or South down Peachtree Street.

 

 

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Here I deliberately showed the signage of both 730 Midtown AND Hotel Indigo in the background. This shows the close proximity of a place to stay in relation to the building for those looking to possibly lease space in the building. Not so much for them to stay in, but to show that there is a nearby place for business associates from out of town to stay while doing business with them. I also got other shots of people in motion as they passed in front of the building, but this one in particular stood out to me due to the people pulling suitcases behind them.

 

 

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The beautiful Fox Theater, which is just down from the building I was assigned to photograph, and just across the street from two hotels – all in close proximity to each other.

 

 

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This is one of those shots the client likely either loved, or thought I must have delivered by mistake. I sat and waited for the right type car to go by while hopefully getting a reflection of somebody in the sign too. The combination of the taxi cab and the guy on his cell phone won out above the others I shot like this. So, here you have it.

 

 

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This was shot not so much to show the Fox Theater, but the MARTA sign in the foreground. MARTA is the public transportation system here in Atlanta. This sign is for a bus stop, but there is also a MARTA train station nearby too. This shot gives the marketing firm the opportunity to mention that in any promotional materials for the building. The dog having the only recognizable face in the shot was a complete luck. I deliberately drug the shutter to get the people blurred. Why the dogs face is sharper than their escapes me since in theory he / she should have been moving at about the same speed as the people he was with. I love dogs. I wonder what his / her name was?

 

 

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A dusk shot of the building. I wasn’t overly happy with the sky since there were no clouds in the sky anymore, so I went back a second time a few days later to catch the building right as the sun was setting with a better looking sky…

 

 

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…and here it is, shot at a funky angle.

 

 

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Same building. Same sky. Less funk.

Portraits are definitely my thing when it comes to photography, but I also really enjoy doing work like this, and other architecture / interior type work. It’s relaxing to me.

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