Are there any good guides on how to not suck at architecture

be alphon.

>>3070454

I can't just become a master, I need something to help me improve in the meantime.

>>3070453

Where do you live OP? Big city?

Also try finding just one building and taking about an hour or two to go around it, possibly inside it, look for its details and its nuances, work on your composition and take your time.

Do you have any examples of your work so far?

>>3072190
>something to help me improve
Practice, lots of it.

You don't become a master overnight. Masters work very hard at it

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Need to hear something about this in order to learn.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry for too big of a size.

>>3070453

Get a tilt/shift lens.
Straight lines get you all the pussy.

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>>3070453
1. Wait for good light
2. Use compositing and retouching all the time, the shot will always have shit in it that you don't want.
3. Use a T/S lens or whatever lets you have movements.
4. Shooting from a tripod is preferable since you may end up blending exposures a lot
5. Try to consider how the architect intended for their work to be viewed and capture the angle that best represents a certain trait of said structure.
Most of the rest is just photographic theory that one would apply to just about any other subject.

>>3072764
Nothing redeeming about this shot. The subject is plain and uninteresting made worse by the light being flat and boring, but it also doesn't qualify as minimalism because there are no secondary characteristics like texture, detail, depth or pattern.
It's also soft as hell, which is what you'd expect form a 76KB 1500x2000px .jpg, don't do that shit.

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>>3072826
woher ist this?

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>>3072979
It's a building in Moscow called The Patriarch, because it's right on the edge of the Patriarch ponds region, although it's an historic name since there's only one pond remaining.
A blatantly touristy location, but since I live right across from it, I often try finding new ways to photograph it.

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>>3072190
A tip that I always say to people, which applies to pretty much anything:
Relish your mistakes, take them as an opportunity to see where you went wrong and try to improve on it next time. If you never admit your own failures you can't improve.
Whilst I know bugger all about good photography, like most art I suspect looking at others work will inspire you.
Try looking at architecture photos you enjoy and study them carefully. Think about what's going on behind the camera as well as in front of it.