Being in dental school has a way of keeping you from getting out and taking photos, so I decided to bring my camera to school and take photos there! The Evans building of the Penn School of Dental Medicine is 100 years old this year, so I thought I would pay a little tribute to my school. By the way, the dental school itself was founded in 1878 and is one of the very oldest dental schools in the nation! Being in a 100 year old building has its pros and cons. For one, the building is in dire need of renovations, (which are beginning to take place). On the other hand, there is some amazing architecture from stained glass windows to hundreds of unique gargoyles.
Architecture photography is really different from other forms of photo taking because buildings are full symmetry and straight lines. That means that if you don't center your perspective on your subject and aren't 100% level then things tend to look distorted or unbalanced; especially if you are using a wide angle lens like I did. The easiest way to overcome this is to purposefully stand off center and maybe even tilt your camera at an angle to bring in dramatic diagonal lines onto the composition.
Here are a few of the photos that I've taken so far. These and more photos to come will actually be part of a photo book that I'm making for students and faculty.
