Taking Great Architecture Shots with No Time! And How to PRICE Your Work.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2022
- Let's cover how I handled a difficult architectural photoshoot working against the clock. How to price your work. How to work with your client and how to make the most of a tough situation.
A true professional worth their fee is capable of delivering quality photos inspite of adverse conditions. In this video I'll discuss various aspects of this recent shoot and share tips to help level up your architectural photography.
If you want to see how I post produce these images, just write "post production" in the comments, and if I get enough requests I'll put a follow up vid together and answer any other questions you may have.
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Post production please, as I always enjoy your editing tutorials 👍
This information is gold. It's hard to get inside info from the pros without paying for a course. Thank you. The pricing part was invaluable!
Would love to see how you post produce these. Thanks.
You're very welcome!
I'd love to see the post production sir! Thank you for this.
Just to point out that even though you don't use tilt shift lenses because of your presonal reasons, you really cannot argue that you don't have any useful benefits of using them. I too know it's much slower process but even if you can get away with the tilting in post, you cannot shift your view via the shift function of the lens in post. That is a real benefit too of the ts-lenses and sometimes you really need it. Especially in interior shots. :)
Yes. Post production would be great
I love that you shared these details which are normally left out in a regular tutorial! I recently started to shoot landscape architectural phtography, mostly for real estate developers, designers, contractors, and I do have similar experiences. I agree that the secret and value for a pro lies in things like people skills, site preperation and quick decision making. Thank you!
Thanks for this, really great info. I just came back from my first gig, client needed 30-50 shots, I had 1500 (overshooting, bracketed, HDR panos, tons of burst photos with people motion blurred for client's needs). People skills really are critical! If I wasn't discrete and kind towards staff and the guests as the hotel is quite expensive , I'd have been shown the door very early into the shoot.
If I hadn't seen your videos about Lumenzia , I'd be pullng my hair out because I tried Aurora, Luminar, Lightroom... none of them do a perfect job. PS and luminosty masks allow the finest control and when pulled off properly, look like an actual single shot photo. And one thing that didn't help was me not noticing in-camera how a polarizing filter may clash with huge glass panels which have their own polarization to protect from the sun. That was really fun to fix in post. This gig had me removing objects and fixing stuff I never dreamed of doing, and it's only my first one. Tough stuff :)
So here's another huge thanks for this and your main channel, and sharing info selflessly like this.
Thanks! Sounds like a great project to kick things off. Good thing with all those challenges is you'll be learning very quickly. Cheers for watching and commenting!
@@archiphoto Most definitely. It was a problem project, so I've learned a lot. Will be returning to your channel on the regular. Have a great weekend!
I've never commented on your videos although I think I've watched every single one on both channels. Your tutorials have been invaluable and I've very much appreciated your time and efforts. Keep'em coming. Love your work. Thank you from a sunny (ish) England.
Hi Dan. Well thanks for jumping into the comment section! Really appreciate it. Cheers for watching all my vids!!!!
Would love to see the post production results. Love your videos!
Thanks Antony brilliant again.
Cheers Marc
Great video, a post production video would be great!
Love it, check every day to see if you're put out something new. Spent most of my 40 years as a photographer hustling, so know where you're coming from. Love to see post production and more on your pricing structure for other small businesses such as designers or stagers. Best to you.
Hi Alan, thanks so much. I'm humbled to know you check in to see if I've posted something new! Silly as it sounds, it's comments like this that keep me motivated to do the hard yards of recording videos. 😀👍
Post production, please, and thanks from Spain
Could we see the video about doing the post work on these pictures please. It was an amazing watch
Hey mate, incredible videos, been finding your work so helpful. Do you have any videos on basic shot lists? And also do you have one for how you do your folder structure and Lightroom structure?
You owe us a video of final touches from the previous tutorial of lightroom for begginers :) and of course I would love to see the post-production editing these photos as well. Keep up the good work!
Yeah, in that last one I didn't get too many requests for the finishing touches in the end. These videos take a long time to put together so I try to guage people's interest. If it's not there I just move on.
Oi! @@archiphoto
I want to thank for sharing all your knowledge with us. I have few questions if you could find the time to answer or make a video on it I would appreciate it. How would you recommend knowing what you know now how to get started in architectural photography? I have followed you from your other TH-cam channel and noticed hear you are using photoshop and not Luminar, would you recommend both programs or is Luminar enough to start? Just for curiosity did you go to school or self taught? Want to Thank You again David
Post Production!
Hi mate. I've now done an architecture edit tutorial start to finish. You can check it out here: th-cam.com/video/_BrFUT9t7oA/w-d-xo.html
of course you know we want to see the final product
POST PRODUCTION bruh
Great job! Great video :)
Thank you! Cheers!
Anthony, thanks so much for sharing the details of your process. Would love to see what method you used to blend the different exposures or recover detail from single shots. In previous videos you have shown your process with Lightroom and Aurora for HDR as well as luminosity blending using Lumenzia. Curious about what you did here. Thanks again!
Thanks Curt. Yes, I use a variety of techniques for highlight recovery and expanding the dynamic range in a way that resembles what the human eye sees, rather than the camera's sensor. Everything seen here in this vid is as shot straight out of camera. For the most part, the editing here will likely be off single frames rather than brackets.
Excellent videos and explanation. I‘m learning a lot. Keep on
Post production please, that is where the real magic comes from. Also no need to rant about tilt shift lens in every video, we get it :D
Duly noted. But if I don't rant about tilt shifts what am I going to rant about? 🙃😆
Can we get a pricing and a post production video? Love your work and your videos!
Hi mate. I've now done an architecture editing tutorial start to finish. You can check it out here: th-cam.com/video/_BrFUT9t7oA/w-d-xo.html
Post production video would be great mate!!! ❤ love your work!
Thanks Nik.
Thanks for your thorough and informative videos! What else have you got on Luminar Neo?
I cover a lot of Luminar techniques over on my other channel but I haven't shared the one I alluded to in this video before. Seems like there's a bit of interest....
Haha. Sorry I thought this comment was my new video which actually features Neo. 😅 I'd check that out for a start.
Thanks for the vid. content aware would have taken care of the poles in a few seconds finishing, probably, with some stamp tool time.
Yeah, it would have been worth giving it a bash with content aware first.
Well done for debunking "get it right in camera". Maybe 60 years ago but now we have wonderful software tools we can get it right later and with much less hassle and expense.
Hi, sorry for more questions but what what do you set the photo quality to when you send your proofs to clients so that they don't just take the photo :)
I use Mogrify for Lightroom. Not super straight forward to set up but so worth it. I resize, add borders, a light watermark and the filename gets added to the bottom border strip to make it easy for the client to reference and further protect your image.
Hi, another great video. I've got 2 questions, do you provide your clients with a photography contract to sign, if so what would you include. Also what software do you use to transfer the photos to the clients ie the finished photos, thank you
I actually use Dropbox for the delivery of proofs and finished files.
The contracts question isn't a straightforward answer. I'll try to cover it in a future video 😀
@@archiphoto Thank you so much you are a great help to me and inspiration for my own architecture photography business
Follow up
Hi I've downloaded Mogrify however when going to plug in manager to select the file Abobe says 'An error occurred while attempting to load this plug in' . Any suggestions or video in using Mogrify and the tools you use for copyright photos to send to clients for proofing? :)
Hi mate. Been a while since I installed mogrify so I can't quite remember. I just know it wasn't the easiest thing to set up. There was more reading of instructions online than I usually like 🙄. I'm going to build a new system march/April. When I do I'll need to reinstall. I'll try to remember to record the steps.
@@archiphoto Thank you, I was close to starting my AIR BNB photography business however the weather in Wale isn't great so will have to wait till the new year. Your videos really help, would be great to pick your brain about a few questions 😀
Hello and thank you again for your great videos! Can I please ask you how you deliver the proofs to the clients? Are you using an app or something? Thank you!
Hi Dimosthenis, I'll deliver them via a dropbox folder. I'll see if I can cover it in a video.
@@archiphoto Thank you again!
You'd mentioned in the video that you send 15 - 50 proofs for the client to choose from. Are these proofs of fully edited images?
No. Absolutely not. I do a draft edit in Lightroom so they're acceptable and reserve the more time consuming finishing edits for the ones yhe client wants to licence
@@AnthonyTurnham whew! That makes a lot more sense 😊👍. Thanks for your reply
post production please
Hello, what lenzes are you using a 24 mm ?
16-35mm is my wide option.
nice video , can we see the end results please ?
Good suggestion, I'll see if in the future I can set up a link to the images. They're currently just sat with the client. I don't like to post the images until they've taken the work live themselves.
Pricing please.
Give us in depth on pricing
Hi mate, thanks for the request. turns out any vids I do on pricing are watched far less than videos showing techniques so unless I suddenly get an overwhelming response asking for that info I'm probably not going to keep sharing the pricing and business side of things.
@@archiphoto no problem my friend, thank you
Post prod me!
Post :)
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