Like I mentioned in my original concept post, my goal was to show the new architecture school building in its context, so it would be necessary to show some of the other existing KTH buildings too. I chose the camera position to be in a place where, even thought most of the image is not showing the main building, everything in the composition is pointing to it, forcing the viewer’s eyes and attention always to fall where it should be.

In the beginning I was thinking about placing the camera far away and using a lens like 85mm (on a full-frame camera) in order to compress the space between the buildings so the arch school building would look bigger in relation to the other buildings, even being farther back. As I was working on it though, I felt that at 85mm the image was looking flat and lacking dimension. Plus, a narrow FOV like 85mm is not very common in architectural photography, so a view this narrow wouldn’t help make the image look photoreal. At 50mm the vanishing/perspective lines started getting a little too extreme for me, so I decided to settle on 60mm.