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Styles: Architecture and Buildings
Plan ahead 
If you are heading out to take pictures of a specific building, make sure you know which side of the building the light is going to be on.
Use the full zoom range
Architectural photography gives you some great opportunities to use the full extent of your zoom lens. You can get some great wide angle shots, however zooming in on buildings lets you pick out details that the unaided eye may not see.
Look for unusual angles
Make the most of interesting shapes, lines and curves that exist in architecture.
Popular location? Be different.
If the building is in a popular tourist location, try and find a picture that's different from the one that's in every travel brochure for the place.
Reflections 
Modern buildings often make use of large expanses of glass - this can make for some interesting photography in which other buildings or surrounding objects are reflected.
Photograph at night
Many buildings look great at night, especially modern office blocks.
Sample Pictures
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Photo by Colin
Liverpool Cathedral taken with a wide angle lens. |
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Photo by Colin
The Liver Buildings in Liverpool. The picture was a long exposure (13 seconds, f/9, ISO 100).
The streaks of light are a bus passing through the shot. And no, I was not cursing the driver, it was planned. |
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Photographs
This is a site about photography so I'm sure you are expecting to see plenty of pictures.
For now, why not take a peek at the flickr galleries belonging to the two authors of this site.
Colin's Flickr Page
Phil's Flickr Page
"Photography will be the twentieth-century art - and the international language."
- Willard Morgan, 1925
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