This isn't commercial service photography, it's a contemplative practice that happens to be commissioned. Every image delivered is built from the ground up with various combined exposures, layers constructed with precision, no shortcuts taken.
Architecture is a practice with two phases. Once in materials and physical construction, and once when revealed by light and shadow.
Every building has an optimal version of itself. It happens at a specified hour from a specified angle. Finding that moment is rarely achieved by improvisation, rather it's the result of methodical preparation and knowing the location. Not guessing.
The Equipment
Tilt-shift lenses are mandatory here. Converging verticals, corrected. Architectural lines, preserved. The kind of geometric precision that a building's designer spent years achieving, rendered faithfully rather than distorted.
Two technological systems, deployed deliberately depending on what the building demands. The Fujifilm GFX medium format system for maximum resolution and fidelity, when every detail, every surface needs to render with complete clarity. And the Canon system when a 17mm tilt-shift is necessary to see to the tops of larger buildings without compromise. The right tool for the subject, not loyalty to a single system.
Made, Not Generated
Nothing is rushed. Nothing is improvised. The approach is one of systematic thoroughness from the shoot through post processing. Telephone poles disappear, wires are removed, skies replaced when necessary, seamlessly and never obviously. Every adjustment made by hand, every layer constructed deliberately as with an X-ACTO knife.
Where We Work
We're Portland based, also available throughout the Pacific Northwest, Central Oregon, Bend, the Oregon Coast, and Seattle.
If the building is worth designing, it's worth traveling to photograph properly.
Ready to start talking about your architecture shoot? Get in touch with us – P&K
