Dunedin heritage architecture

These images were made during sessions demonstrating the use of the camera mast to photography students at Aoraki Polytechnic.

The Priory, Tennyson Street

 

The Gresham hotel and Queens Gardens Backpackers

First Church, Moray Place

Queens Gardens Court, Queens Gardens

Photographing architecture with Max Öttli.

On 8 March Max Ö was in Princes Street showing interested photography students how to use a large format camera to shoot Architecture. In this case the buildings which are under threat of demolition near the corner of Stafford Street. Coincidentally there was a group there protesting the demolition plans.

I've had no LF experience so I appreciated benefiting from Max's years of professional practice.

I enjoyed photographing the master at work, especially as he releases the shutter, fully immersed in the creative moment.

Not that I was suggesting for a minute that Max is a work of art himself.

Reading room, Shot tower

Reading room 1

Reading room 2

Shot tower

My photography tutor, Max Oettli, asked me to bring some images along to a talk with the theme of 'perspective'. These were shot during a trip to Melbourne in 2008. The La Trobe Reading room is an incredible space in the State Library of Victoria, definitely worth visiting if you are in the city. These two composite shots show very different ways that the software found to stitch the images together. The shot tower, now a domed shopping mall/cineplex was built to produce shot by dropping molten lead from a such a height that it would solidify by the time it reached the bottom.

This work by Chris Reid is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 New Zealand License.

Corrective perspective

Centre for Innovation 1

Centre for innovation 2

When photographing architecture I always try to straighten the verticals but with this building it all seems to have gone horribly wrong.

This work by Chris Reid is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 New Zealand License.