Architecture
Chapel of the Holy Trinity
Concordia Chapel has been influential in my life for one reason-Boychoir. I am in the Boychoir of Ann Arbor, and since I joined, we have almost always had a performance here. This church is beautiful and has so many interesting shapes. It has glass all over the place, with lots of mosaics. I shot this in the morning, just as the sun was coming up. It was cold, and my hands were freezing, but I think that these photos came out really well. One thing I don't like was that the one straight on had a lamppost interrupting the building, but there was no way to get it out of the image without cutting the bottom of the chapel out. In these photos, I wanted to display how large the chapel is. It's hard to capture the true scale of this building, but I hope I at least made some headway in communicating how large this building is.
Earhart's Building
Earhart Manor, also on the Concordia campus, is not a place I know well. I have been there once, and the inside is definitely more beautiful than the outside. However, its design is very interesting, it is both modern and old at the same time, with lots of windows and really interesting features, such as the pavilion. I was able to get it photographed as the sun came over the horizon-unfortunately backlighting many of the photos. I wish that there were not as many trees, but it can't be helped. I also like that it's called the Earhart Manor-though it isn't named after her (I think), Amelia Earhart's story is really inspiring, and when I saw the name of this manor, I was like, "I need to do this". In these photos, I wanted to display the things that people wouldn't really notice-the pavilion, the roof, to name a few.
Tumbledown House
The next 6 photos are at the same location, but if you looked at it, you wouldn't be able to tell. Cobblestone Farm was probably the first place I ever got to see what the life before modern times was like. This first building doesn't really have a name, but it looked really cool. I was able to get pictures all around, and it looks really contrasting against a white/gray background. It was locked, unfortunately, otherwise I would have gone inside to take pictures as well. I really enjoyed the logs, they gave me lots of different opportunities to take macro photos. I wanted to show that this house is really beautiful and looks super interesting, though it's very plain, it can still be beautiful.
Farmhouse
Hilariously, the blueprint photo was a photo that my mom made me take. I had my 5 photos, and she said, "Get a picture of the front," so I did. This is the farmhouse at cobblestone farms, and one thing I wanted to spotlight was the lighting. The sun made one side of the building really bright, and the other kind of dark, and I wanted to make that apparent. I also wanted to get those two chimneys in a picture, that's something you don't see very often. Also, I love that every window is symmetrical yet each one seems different. Lighting was my focus for the 2 smaller photos. I tried to show what light can do to a building.
St. Paul
Finally, this church is where my Boychoir rehearses. It is huge and awesome. It is in the busiest part of Ann Arbor, but here it's tranquil...until a car goes by at 40 miles per hour. I really wanted to highlight the windows and doors of this church, they're well designed and have this really awesome look to them. There's also a rose window at this church, though it's too small to get a good picture of it. I really love how sharp it looks, lots of corners and edges, and almost no circles. If you look closely at the tower with Mosaic...can you see the painting? In "Enter the Church" I wanted the door to look really good in the picture, so I brought the exposure down and brought the color out. I wanted the focus to be on the door-and I love that it became reflective once I edited it. It looks really good. I wanted to show the color of this church, wanted to bring out the most important details, and take focus away from unimportant distractions.