My blog has been featured on Guide to Art Schools’ list of the Top Architectural Photography Blogs.
It’s funny: As soon as we have decided to remove the architecture portfolio from our portfolios and concentrate only on a product photography, we got such interest in our architecture photography:-)
Me and Alex like architecture, but for now a studio photography is much more interesting for us: concentrating only in a studio work we’ll have more chances to become “world best” in what we do.. and we both won’t accept less:-) But any way that’s cool!
Half year ago we did a product photo-session for Vieler International.
Now Andre Vieler asked us to shoot exterior photos of the whole plant. We used a fork lifter to raise the photographer to a height where was much less perspective distortion. This works much better then any tilt/shift lens, I wish we could have such lifter for all of our architectural projects:-)
Here I’ll show you how I did a post-production, some parts of work flow. Here is the image before and after:
Mouse Over to see Before and After
Continue reading Architecture photography post-production and retouching for Vieler International.
This post I would like to devote to my friend and a very talented person Anna Shafigina.
She has a great taste and perfect sense of style and harmony, her perfectionism allows her to achieve blameless outcome in any fields. Today I will show you Anna’s talent for an interior decoration and design. She decorated this room for her baby boy Nicolas. Amazingly good, isn’t it?
Photography by Atlanta photographer Alex Koloskov
Retouching by Genia Larionova
Interior Design Photographer
Continue reading Kids room decoration from the artist and designer Anna Shafigina
Mandir is the name for a Hindu place of worship and prayer. The word mandir is composed of two words, Man and Dir, whose meanings are mind and still, respectively. Therefore, a mandir is a place where the mind becomes still; a place where we experience peace from worldly problems. For centuries, the mandir has remained a spiritual, educational, social and physical cornerstone of Indian society.
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It is very unusual to find something like this in Georgia. The place is truly beautiful and the marble carvings are amazing. Unfortunately we can take photos only from a distance. The rest beauty I’ll try to remember:-)
Lifestyle photography
Continue reading BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Atlanta, GA
This article is for those who do not have tilt shift adapter or TS lens and still do architecture photography.
I’ll show you how to correct perspective distortion using Photoshop. Camera lens distortions occur frequently when taking pictures of architectural subjects with a wide-angle lens and the need to use an external program. Distortion will always have place when we shoot tall buildings, tilting the camera upwards. There is no way (unless you have TS adapter or lens) to get vertical lines to be vertical on a picture, as it will fall in the middle.
However, you can easily correct camera lens distortions using Photoshop or other photo software.
Below you can find list of software for lens distortion and perspective correction and tutorial how to fix it in Adobe Photoshop
How to correct perspective distortions of an image using the Adobe Photoshop Free Transform Tool.
Before lens distortion and perspective correction
After lens distortion and perspective correction
All you have to do is:
Continue reading Lens distortion and perspective correction in architecture photography
ou can buy all this images in High Resolution on our stock photos web sites:
Night Atlanta, GA stock images
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I would like to share some examples on how we do a post-processing for architectural photography. Below you’ll see before and after images with explanation what we did and how. Sometime the result looks like HDR, but it is not a real HDR, where HDR processor compiles several images into one. The results often looks not real, showing non-existent lighting and colors. Which is OK for the Art, but unacceptable for a commercail photography.
The best way is a manual process, where we replace some parts of the image, using masking or working with dodge or burn tools. More examples of such techniques you can find in our Portfolio
Exterior architectural photography
Post-production:
- Camera RAW processing
- Cleaning with Clone Stamp Tool
- Alignment using Guides and Free Transform
- Asphalt Retouching
- Crop, Resize for web and apply Unsharp Mask
Continue reading Architectural Photography Post-Production
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