Author Topic: Archviz Camera Lens  (Read 2790 times)

2020-04-30, 10:17:27

Gabiru

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Hello everyone, i work in an archviz 3D studio for almost 2 years, almost everything i know i learn across the internet but of course i know that im missing some basics.
I never had any photographic lessons and i struggle the moment of choosing a camera lense and image format. Is there any rules for using a specific lens at a specific place? where can i learn about this? thanks everyone and sorry for the basic question

2020-04-30, 10:49:01
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Fluss

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I think you should search for image construction, image composition. What should drive your lens and format choices is more about how elements of the scene are arranged in the frame. It also depends on what you want to communicate in your image.

2020-04-30, 11:12:39
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Juraj

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Yup, and there are lot of tutorials to teach this. You can start from free on youtube by simply searching studio & architecture photography (because different lens are used on people than on space & products, but it's good to look it up all, lot of interesting knowledge to be used across the board.
Paid tutorials would be something like :
- Mike Kelly's Where Art  Meets Architecture (2nd being the most useful), RGEDDU has two shorter series as well on architecture & real-estate.

These things can be both fairly loose and also fairly strict. I have very high-end furniture client and we use only 50mm (in full-frame sensor) lens. Nothing else, just 50mm. That's for full room of furniture, architectural sets.

That is very unrealistic for most commercial architecture & real-estate projects, where 80perc. would fall between 24-35mm. Artistic projects can afford to go as low as 14mm (with 14-24mm being the most popular architecture lens, but you're not gonna use it for commercial real-estate).
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