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For the past few days I was shooting buildings, focusing on architecture and more important, focusing on taking more decent photos. In the light of my new knowledge, these days I'm paying more attention to details, setups, alignments and so on. This is why taking a photo takes 10 times more than before, but at leas now I know what to pay attention to.

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I stood in front of the building and looked at the details for 5 minutes, studying what I see. I suppose symmetry is what the eye is looking for, but there's no perfection in life, so why would be perfection here, right? Architectures have already broken symmetry, so no perfection here.

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Nevertheless, I did what I could and here is the proof. This is the screenshot of the photo, with Google grid applied. You can see on the right, there's a vertical section, that is missing from the left side. That breaks everything. The other thing is the "peaks" at the top. There's no symmetry there either.

Otherwise the horizontal lines are pretty ok in my eyes. While I was trying to take this photo, I remembered what someone said on my last post, that I'm going to drive myself crazy looking for perfection, so I took the shot the best way I could and was happy with it.

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Here's a portrait orientation photo.

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And with the grid applied. I must admit, using the grid on the scene helps a lot. Also, in these cases I case to make the sky darker, to direct attention to details.

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Next, I moved to another part of the building, to capture something with more symmetry. This is one of the side entrances that luckily was not in use. Like a bonus, there was a tree in front of the door, but a bit to the right though. You can imagine those who planted the tree, or made the sidewalk did not care about symmetry 😁

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This photo has not been straightened, so I'm ok with how it looks.

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Next is a different building and not so nicely lined.

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If you look at the base line, it is straight. If you look at the top, it's not. The difference is minimal but still visible, when you look at the eve. Regardless, enjoy the architecture and don't let the air conditioner box on the top right to ruin the beauty of it.

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A nice door this time, that was also not in use, which was perfect for me as the door could remain closed while I was taking the photo.

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This photo hasn't been straightened either, in fact none of these were.

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This is an interesting one as the bottom lines are not lining with the bottom of the window but the upper lines do.

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The more I look at this, the more I like what I see.

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This is even more interesting. I've always loved bricks and combined with wood, these make a good combination.

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Now look at the lines. The base line and the railing are perfect, the roof is not, but let's not forget this is a medieval fortress wall, which means architects of those days may have not been millimeter precise, or restaurateurs have not thought this structure has to be millimeter perfect.

So which one is your favorite, if you like any of it at all :)

Conclusion

This was a nice exercise, to see if what I saw at the scene is confirmed on the big screen. I'm satisfied with the result, actually more than satisfied, even though I cheated using the grid on my phone. It helped me focus more and get used to pay attention to the details, be more patient and try to do better.

However, I'm not going to torture myself with it s it takes away the fun and makes you never be satisfied with the result, which eventually leads to quitting. I don't want that to happen as I love photography.

Now I can move on to another chapter, setting the light right and stuff like that.

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I´m just catching up with what I have missed during the past (super busy) week and was about to comment on your post from a few days ago where you were already discussing this topic but then I noticed you just posted this one so let me stop by here :)

As a person with a pretty severe OCD (the kind of person who would go and straighten even the slightestly tilted paintings on the wall) but also quite an avid photography (yet totally amatuer) enthusiast, I must admit I often struggle with architectural photography as it´s sometimes literally impossible to get all the lines straight and the angles symmetrical, especially when shooting with an old phone like I do :D :/ The task gets even more challenging when taking photos of some giant medieval structures like the St. Vitus Cathedral here in Prague where, super frustrated, I ended up taking pictures of just certain parts of the church and from very unusual angles :D

When photographing architecture from a greater distance, you get some distortion as well but here, you can at least compensate by going for an angle which makes the distortation same from both sides, thus creating at least some kind of symmetrical feel somewhere in between. Like in this shot for example. The colorful houses on the right are leaning to the left and the tower in the left is leaning to the right while the bottom looks pretty horizontal :)

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Good to know that I´m not the only one thinking about these things though :D

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Wow, you're really in trouble then :) I mean everyone is a bit OCD, including myself, but just regarding certain things.

I did this experiment because I thought it's shameful to shoot crappy photos and it's time to learn, progress and be better. However, as I said in my post, I'm not gonna overstess myself with it till I go crazy as it's not worth it. Besides, most of the times there's a rush and a crowd, so shooting a perfect photo will not be possible.

I'd suggest you take it easy as these photos are for Hive, not some international photo exhibition, where your whole future can depend on the reviews. Honestly :)

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Take it easy, heh, definitely easier said than done in my case as we have OCD deeply rooted in my family ;) And not just the "symmetrical" branch of the condition but several others too (numbers, rituals, hygiene etc.)

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I'm really sorry to hear that. It must be difficult, but I suppose you can work on it. Maybe seek help?

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It´s not that bad ;) Uncomfortable sometimes, yes, but nothing that I couldn´t live with. But in some cases, professional help is needed indeed. Btw there is also this great Spanish movie about OCD, it´s actually a comedy but you can get an idea of how bad the condition can get sometimes ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toc_Toc

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Thanks, I need to check it out.

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What a beauty, what a perfection of style, door is monumental everything you photograph is beautiful. I am not a photographer, but I love the arts in all its expressions, usually when I travel I usually visit temples, representative buildings that speak of the streets, the city, the lifestyle of the people, the town where the building is erected.

Thank you for sharing this human creation as an expression of architectural culture through your great optics to capture the moment @erikah ☮️

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I'm not a photographer either but it doesn't matter as we can all take photographs and post it here. Then whoever likes them, likes them,

Buildings and churches are the best subjects to photograph.

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You are a naive photographer and what you show in this beehive is art at all costs. And yes, churches, old houses are models that speak of the history of a city, a town, a country.

Hopefully or not they are good photos, Erika.

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Look at these beautiful photos. You're so much better than me right now. I have to admit that it is much more difficult to photograph buildings than landscapes. We both definitely need to practice 😂.

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I wouldn't say I'm better, maybe I was lucky 🙂

But I suppose we can both learn.

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Your shots are always good. Me as a traveler and love photography, I also like to see up close those photos Im seeing online haha.

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Thank you for the nice words.

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