Abstract:
In photography field although there are number of categories, the category of architectural
photography takes a unique place among the other categories because in architectural
photography the abiotic subjects are represented as an artistic way. However, when capturing
architectural subjects, photographers face many problems such as lighting issues, lack of
dynamic range etc. that eventually reduce the quality of the photograph. Although the
technique of High Dynamic Range (HDR) is introduced to minimize the above problems in
other photography categories, in architectural photography this technique is not widely used
because of some hollow sentiments of architectural photographers.
By conducting the questionnaire, it was identified that most of the architectural
photographers are not aware about the benefits of the HDR technique. Also, from the
practical session it was observed that the architectural HDR photographs are more useful
than the ordinary photographs because in HDR photographs the colour depth, dynamic range
and the details of the architectural structures are well captured than the ordinary
photographs. The results of this study proves that the HDR technique is suitable to capture
the architectural photographs because it helps to resolve the problems which photographers
face mainly due to the lack of dynamic range.
