Architectural and Interior Photography
Photographing buildings and spaces for architects, designers, builders, hotels and real estate: perspective and tilt-shift control, composition, sun and twilight timing, mixed interior light, flash, flambient and blending, listing photography and floor plans, FAA Part 107 drone rules, retouching ethics and virtual staging, and copyright under section 120 with licensing and cost-sharing.
PHOT-311 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons · 5 h 9 min
Offered by HSM University · Photography
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Describe the kinds of architectural photography, its clients and how a design commission runs
- Explain why verticals converge and choose vantage points, focal lengths and camera heights honestly
- Calculate and apply rise, fall, shift and tilt, and weigh them against software keystone correction
- Compose exteriors, interiors and details that explain a building and form a coherent set
- Predict sun position, shadow length and golden and blue hour timing, and plan around weather and seasons
- Prepare sites and photograph daylight and twilight exteriors, glass facades and moving elements
- Read and correct mixed interior light using color temperature, mireds, gels, lamp changes and color rendering
- Choose and execute HDR, exposure blending, flash, flambient and multi-flash techniques for high-contrast scenes
- Run real estate shoots, price packages, provide measured floor plans, tours and video, and follow listing rules
- Plan and fly legal, safe aerial photography under Transport Canada or FAA rules while respecting privacy
- Apply a post-production workflow and the ethical limits of retouching, virtual staging and AI tools
- Apply copyright exceptions for buildings, obtain permissions, license and share costs, and complete a project
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 9 min total · final exam
- 1 Architectural photography: the genre and its clients 26 min · quiz
- 2 Perspective and the architectural camera 25 min · quiz
- 3 Tilt, shift and correcting perspective 29 min · quiz
- 4 Composition for buildings and spaces 25 min · quiz
- 5 Sun, weather and timing 27 min · quiz
- 6 Exteriors and twilight photography 25 min · quiz
- 7 Interiors and mixed light 25 min · quiz
- 8 Flash, flambient and exposure blending 27 min · quiz
- 9 Real estate photography, floor plans and virtual tours 25 min · quiz
- 10 Drones and aerial views of property 25 min · quiz
- 11 Post-production, retouching ethics and virtual staging 25 min · quiz
- 12 Copyright, permissions, licensing and capstone 25 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Photographing buildings and spaces for architects, designers, builders, hotels and real estate: perspective and tilt-shift control, composition, sun and twilight timing, mixed interior light, flash, flambient and blending, listing photography and floor plans, FAA Part 107 drone rules, retouching ethics and virtual staging, and copyright under section 120 with licensing and cost-sharing.
Part of the Film & Photography stream, typically taken in year 3.