Hard-earned professional tips and architectural photography advice from Mike Kelley, an award-winning professional architectural photographer, and Eric Reinholdt, an award-winning architect, as they critique and review entries in the APA Architectural Photography Competition from This year. They discuss Eric's selections as a competition juror and a wide range of topics ranging from the use of human scale, lens selection, post-processing, color, composition, drones, techniques and much more.
Categories considered awarded:
Emerging talents
Photo of the year
Project of the year

It's a long topic, but each section contains information gleaned from a combined 50 years of professional architectural practice.

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Discover the winners here: https://apalmanac.com/competitions/the-2021-project-of-the-year-award-winners-176559

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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
02:10 Emerging talent entries
06:15 Human scale
08:43 Shadows
11:24 Descriptive vs. Mysterious
13:38 Why architects hire architectural photographers
3:50 p.m. Styling..More or less?
17:58 Photoshop or leave it alone?
10:00 p.m. I can't ignore it
10:38 p.m. Open frame in the middle
23:56 Fires in chimneys
25:41 Registrations for photo of the year
28:18 Reframing an iconic building
30:50 Rendered or real?
33:55 Selection of Eric's photo of the year
34:45 Free drone shots
39:00 Registration for the project of the year
39:46 Exterior and interior shots
41:05 How to enter?
42:58 The art of treatment
44:40 A little more zoom
46:09 Selection of Eric's project of the year
46:50 Reality of construction
47:45 Sensitivity to architecture (Horizon)
49h00 “Each corner represents a problem to be solved”
50:00 One shot, many uses
51:00 Where are the people?
51:55 Search for a clear subject
53:25 Share what you know

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