Techniques - Architecture

Converging verticals are the bane o the architecture photographer. Avoid tilting the camera upwards by including more foreground interest or climbing to a higher viewpoint.
Do a 'recce' on a building before you photograph it - go and see what time of day the lighting is best, any potential problems you may have, setting up a tripod and get permission from the owners if you're shooting on private land.
Floodlit buildings at night should be photographed just after the sun has gone down, white there's still some light in the sky. Take a meter reading from a mid-tone area and then bracket your exposures. Don't meter from the floodlights.
With a distinctly shaped building such as a church, try shooting silhouettes. Take a meter reading from the sky and set this exposure into the camera or a FLD, fluorescent to daylight, filter infer strip lights.
Building interiors with fluorescent or tungsten lights will need filtration to counteract the colour cast. Use an 8-A blue filter under tungsten lighting or a FLD, fluorescent to daylight, filter infer strip lights.
Use other pieces of architecture to create frames for the building you're photographing. Gateways and arches are two options, alternatively use an overhanging tree.

Don't always try and include the whole building. Fit a telephoto lens and home in on interesting details such as gargoyles, windows or stonework.

Modern glass-fronted buildings create superb reflections so use these in your compositions.