Allegient needed a picture of their building for part of a marketing piece they were putting out. The best time to shoot buildings is when the sun has set between the time of day it goes from light to dark. Much like the
I blogged about earlier this year. See the bottom of this post for details on how I shot the images.
Nikon recently came out with the D800 a 36 megapixel monster with 13 stops of dynamic range which rivals that of medium format cameras so being able to bring out detail in shadows while retaining image quality in the highlights is a big plus which is why I use this camera for all my architectural shots. You can see that the sun is behind the building and yet the sky still have a deep blue and the building is still properly exposed. This was shot at around noon and if I were to expose for the building I would lose the highlights, if I were to expose for the sky I would lose the shadows so what I did was take a medium exposure and bring out the details in photoshop. The information is in the RAW file the camera gives me and a medium exposure ensures that I have detail in both my highlights and shadows.
The side shot of the building is stitched together from a series of images because it was way to large and I couldn't get back far enough without getting the parking lot and cars in the shot.
