De Montfort University Vijay Patel building in Leicester. A collection of architectural photos inside and out showing how the choice of equipment and time of day makes a huge difference to the photos you get....
Keeping the camera still and taking two photos with a shift lens, shifted up and down, lets you create very wide angle rectilinear photographs that also benefit from higher resolution....
The Axa building in Ipswich, seen from Civic Drive. Just a few hundred yards from the Grade 1 listed Willis building and the remnants of the mid sixties Greyfriars development....
If you tilt the optical axis of a lens, the plane of focus moves, allowing more sophisticated control over image sharpness. Great for walls, floors and ceilings...
Why the shift lens is so important for professional architectural photographers. Correcting images with software is often a partial solution at best...
Part of a commission for a series of large prints showing aspects of Leicester city centre at night. A relatively constrained location requires special lenses with shift functions....