First, I reflected on how the image had to look natural and realistic (Thinking about the mood). Second, I thought about the importance of the concept as a tool to narrate a story in the context of the image. Besides, I thought about the idea of incorporating characters that would help me to make clear my concept and story. Third, I also considered the techniques that I had to incorporate to make the concept strong (Lights, composition, colors, the frame, etc.). After considering all of this and in need of developing and building a concept, I asked myself about how could I go beyond the composition and add a sense of what is experienced by a person while being in this space surrounded by the historic buildings and specially the school of architecture?
MATCHING THE ENVIRONMENT: THE KINDNESS OF THE MATERIAL
Taking into account that the main material of the building is an aesthetic element of great importance in the final image, I’ve made the decision to replicate the Corten steel just like in the photographs. In this way, I used an environment very similar to the reference photo and I started to copy the photographic exposure values and the frame. For this, I used the HDRI as the environment and a Sun (Fstorm) to reproduce the approximate same position of the reference. After having done this, I copied the values of the tones in the colors of the material. Additionally, I positioned the building on the map, so that I could have an idea of the coordinates and in that way I could position the sun. Working on this allowed me to emphasize the peculiarities and the kindness of the material and how it matches perfectly with the surroundings.
