Straight lines are a discipline

Architecture rewards restraint. The temptation is to shoot up at a building for a dramatic convergence; the client, who has spent three years getting the verticals right, will not thank you for it.

Working method

• Tripod, always, at chest height rather than eye height.
• Tilt-shift where the site allows it, perspective correction in post where it does not.
• Two exposures at every position: one for the interior, one for the sky.

The half-hour that matters

Interior shots want the moment when the light outside and the light inside are within a stop of each other. Depending on the glazing that is somewhere between twenty and forty minutes, once a day, and if you are not built and metered when it arrives you wait until tomorrow.

We scouted the site twice before the shoot, entirely to work out what time that window fell on each elevation.

Fourteen final frames, delivered flat and graded, with the raw brackets archived for the practice’s own use.