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Just an ordinary day in Stockholm. It’s about 12:30PM, lunch time, and summertime.
In looking for some original camera angle, I decided to take this one from everyday situation.
My goal was to show the quality of architectural design and realistic materials of this masterpiece, but also a little bit of old buildings and environment in facade glass reflection.
There’s always sunshine after the storm. I wanted to breathe life into the building.
i tried to recreate render from the real photo of the building in a short time.
it was challenging and fun.
thank you for opportunity.
once I have seen the building and the surroundings I realized on thing , that the main building and surrounding building colors are so similar which make the building a part of the environment whic is a good thing archticturaly but when it comes for taking a shot conentrating on the building this similarity makes a distraction for the eye.
this Idea that i have will effect my dessision taking the camera and which environment and mood should I use.
for camera i decided to take a vertical shot to reduce the ammount of buildings in the main shot (we can show them in different shots), also diveided the shot for two two pieces , the upper half fore the sky and the lower mostly for the floor and buildings .
the main building will be centered in the shot to give it all the focus ,also the contrast between the sky and floor will help on focuing on the main building.
for the environment I decided to use a clear morning sky ,tried to avoid cloudy sky , and that is because the rusty looking of the building and rough texture of the floor and surrounding buildings makes the scene very crowded , so I tried to make the scene little bit quite by using a clear sky.
What makes us very good at doing something ? there are many reasons like : having good teachers , parents , friends , having time , trying a lot , but the most important part is to have a strong passion if you are passionate you will learn anything you want , you will be what you want , that’s how I thought when I’ve seen this project , I was an architectural student and I wasn’t good at anything but I was passionate , and at the end my graduation project was chosen as the best one of this year , just because I was passionate , so my shot shows us students taking a break between lectures , it is warm and joyful , and full of life, it shows passionate students , enough greens , and a fully saturated building .
Thank you very much for organizing the challenge. It was a pleasure for me to take a part in it.
I have tried a few scenarios of presenting the building. First of all, the surrounding strongly reminded me of my one old alone walk in Bispebjerg, Copenhagen. It was a cold, hazy December night with snow slowly falling down and dimmed lights being cast out of the windows. Somehow it made a strong impression on me and I wanted to translate this feeling into my rendering here. Thus, I knew I want to stay faithful to the surrounding buildings that inspired me, as well as the school that was to be shown.
Basing on these initial guidelines, I put the scene in some testing. I noticed that the School of Architecture building looks much better from the distance than in the wide angle. That’s mostly due to the distortion of the curved facade in the closer perspectives as well as the absence of the most of the roof structure in them. Therefore, my decision regarding the camera placement was much easier. I had to exclude two viewpoints which seemed very interesting (ie. the one from the lower street with terrain stairs building some nice framing for the perspective and the one incorporating into its foreground the circular staircase on the square on the opposite side of the building) – they were too close and the building was too distorted in those angles. In the end, I chose the long shot that shows the entire building with the glimpses of its surroundings.
I tried some settings for the hazy night rendering (like in my initial impression) but they turned out to be distracting a viewer too much from the school building. Furthermore, I wanted to highlight the facade material and I needed some sunlight for it. Eventually, I ended up with some winter morning/noon mood. I had unwrapped the facade and painted the facades before doing all those aforementioned tests since I wanted its vivid hues to play the crucial role in the scene building.
Software used: 3ds max, V-ray, Photoshop
