Just buildings of all sorts

[inphoto]

Post photos of buildings of all sorts, new or old.

Aga Khan's Mausoleum
Aswan, Egypt

 

[inphoto]

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

This is the Lloyd hotel in Amsterdam. It has been many things. It started as a hotel, then became a place to house travelling immigrants, detention centre for the underaged, housed artists' studios and in the end became a hotel again. But for the locals the name Lloyd Hotel is still synonymous with "youth detention centre" (jeugdgevangenis).

 

[fotoi]

London

 

[fotoi]

Venice

 

[fotoi]

Ghent, Belgium.

 

[Jack Dawe]

 

[JohnPD]

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I think this building needs an explanation. And "police"?

 

[Jack Dawe]

It's actually just a random building in Stratford-upon-Avon. Sixteenth-century I'd guess, but possibly earlier - there are a lot of old buildings in that town. I rigged the shot on purpose, but the sign is a little misleading: the police station is actually the building behind.

 

[JohnPD]

It's actually just a random building in Stratford-upon-Avon. Sixteenth-century I'd guess, but possibly earlier - there are a lot of old buildings in that town. I rigged the shot on purpose, but the sign is a little misleading: the police station is actually the building behind.

Right. That explains it. Well done!

 

[fotoi]

Brussels

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Brussels

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One thing I always wonder when looking at your night images, fotoi, is how you get such clarity? If I take a shot at night it so easily starts to look mushy.

 

[fotoi]

One thing I always wonder when looking at your night images, fotoi, is how you get such clarity? If I take a shot at night it so easily starts to look mushy.

Most are handheld, but some on tripod. If handheld, I try to keep shutter speed to no less than 1/100s or so, but sometimes slower if possible. This keeps ISO down which gives better image quality. And given the opportunity, I try to lean against something like a building, lamp post, etc. or place camera on a wall, fence, chair, etc.

I've thought about using a monopod so I can use an even lower shutter speed but haven't done that yet.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Most are handheld, but some on tripod. If handheld, I try to keep shutter speed to no less than 1/100s or so, but sometimes slower if possible. This keeps ISO down which gives better image quality. And given the opportunity, I try to lean against something like a building, lamp post, etc. or place camera on a wall, fence, chair, etc.

I've thought about using a monopod so I can use an even lower shutter speed but haven't done that yet.

I think it's the ISO where I go wrong. Makes sense. Thanks, fotoi.

 

[fotoi]

Venice