Exterior Rules of Thumb?

[Dave Buckley]

nice one, do you agree it needs more sky

[mattclinch]

yea, i wouldn't have the edge of the building that close to the frame. but you dont need to be spot on a third line. its just a rule of thumb.

 

that said, i wouldn't use a landscape frame for a tall building. portrait shot will work better.

[Dave Buckley]

well i'm getting there with the little tips i was after the first time round

 

tall buildings - portrait works better, camera further away etc etc

 

i wasn't after any formulas as such, just things that work, i have been looking at tall building renders all day and a lot of them use portrait shots

[Tommy L]

well i'm getting there with the little tips i was after the first time round

 

tall buildings - portrait works better, camera further away etc etc

 

i wasn't after any formulas as such, just things that work, i have been looking at tall building renders all day and a lot of them use portrait shots

 

Another option is to do the image way bigger than it needs to be and then crop as necessary. So you could crop it down to a portrait or leave as landscape and have more, well, landscape. It does mean you are working at way higher res and need to model/pshop more detail, but can be a lifesaver if the client has requests further down the line. Kind of like a photographer taking wider shots than he needs to give a crop option later.

[Dave Buckley]

Another option is to do the image way bigger than it needs to be and then crop as necessary. So you could crop it down to a portrait or leave as landscape and have more, well, landscape. It does mean you are working at way higher res and need to model/pshop more detail, but can be a lifesaver if the client has requests further down the line. Kind of like a photographer taking wider shots than he needs to give a crop option later.

 

 

yeh i'd thought of that, and that was going to be my final option.

 

these aren't client shots, just portfolio stuff, which is why i was struggling with no 'agreed' final shot to work towards

 

however, after reading ernest's chapter in 3dats book on composition, says not to overshoot the frame in order to crop later.

 

i wonder why? ernest if your reading feel free to jump in

[Tommy L]

yeh i'd thought of that, and that was going to be my final option.

 

these aren't client shots, just portfolio stuff, which is why i was struggling with no 'agreed' final shot to work towards

 

however, after reading ernest's chapter in 3dats book on composition, says not to overshoot the frame in order to crop later.

 

i wonder why? ernest if your reading feel free to jump in

 

Well there's a huge overhead involved work-wise. If this can be billed, great. If not and if the resolution is possible without a big kerfuffle, I'd consider it a viable option. But I guess it could also be argued that compositionally the crop may have different intrinsic values than the wider shot, so you could say it is design blasphemy.

[WAcky]

Exactly what I was going to say but not because I know that rule. The first render attached shows the building "looking" to the right and I want to see what it's looking at! Giving it space on the right is like you said, more relaxed!

 

Oh, I just thought of a rule!

Always put the 'open face' of the building with more room to the edge of the image. Its more relaxed. Same in film and photography. If the persons face is looking at the edge of the image facing out it introduces a feeling of unease, like the person has an uncertain immediate future. Its used in propaganda shots alot.