For regular viewers, they do not distinguish between architecture photos and real estate photos. They look all right as long as they are nice. But through trained eyes, the two are very much different, because the photographer was intentionally shooting for a different purpose. Most photographers are inclined to get the shoot in normal lighting rendering a look-and-feel as realistic as possible.

Shooting real estate in Australia tends to be like this mostly. Typically, the clients want to pick up minute details as much as possible. Saturate the blue sky a little, and tune-up overall the color saturation a little more. When it comes to architecture photos, they are mostly seen in printed magazines. For European clients, they would like cool-toned real estate shoots and keep the blue sky to its realistic color.

Often photos of architecture reveal more of an aesthetic effect and sometimes even go abstract. This type of photo can have a tall straight line of a high-rise bend to allow a light-and-shadow effect creating impressions on viewers. Even colorful artwork inside a building can be more accentuated when a photographer carefully plays with a color contrast with objects around it. So architecture photography is very different from its real estate counterpart. Aesthetic doesn’t do any good when it comes to having a prospect to check out what a house really looks like or what part of the building got captured on the photo.

Yes, they are different types of photos, but the absolute necessity when shooting them is a good o’ tripod. A tripod can help to place perspective lines more precisely. Of course, we can fix perspective lines in Photoshop through different techniques, but fundamentally taking care of that at the beginning of the process is proven more efficient as a whole.

Architectural Photography

Note how perspective makes you feel, how light creates a shadow, and how you always look around the photo more. This is because they create aesthetic appeal and please your eyes.

Real Estate Photography

You can see that every object looks as real as they come. The effect if perspective lines are kept at the low. No dim spots. All details even the blue sky, and the greens in the back is there to enliven the shoot.

After learning something from these examples, go ahead and try things out on your own. See how a photo tells you a story. See how a photo makes you remember things in vivid detail. You’ll find your trials-and-errors teach you the best. Make your own style in your work. Be creative and have a lot of fun.