Marquardt - Wide-angle photography: capturing landscape, portrait, street, and architectural photographs with wide-angle lenses (including tilt-shift lenses)

Chris Marquardt

Capturing Landscape, Portrait, Street, and Architectural
Photographs with Wide-Angle Lenses
(Including Tilt-Shift Lenses)

Wide-Angle Photography

Chris Marquardt

www.chrismarquardt.com

Editor: Joan Dixon

Translation: Jeremy Cloot

Interior design: Birgit Buerlein

Layout production: Hespenheide Design

Cover design: Hespenheide Design

Illustrations: Peter Marquardt

Project manager: Lisa Brazieal

Marketing coordinator: Mercedes Murray

ISBN: 978-1-68198-383-7

1st Edition (1st printing, August 2018)

All images Chris Marquardt unless otherwise noted

2018 by dpunkt.verlag, GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany

Original German title: Weitwinkelfotografie

German ISBN: 978-3-86490-398-2

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For everyone who is interested
in the why as well as the how.

I would like to thank everyone who took part in the first 24mm workshop. Without you this book wouldnt exist. Thanks also go to Jim Rakete for his early influences and for completing the circle; to the Feelin Good Bluesband (Martin Kade, Stefan Zenner, Nick Deeg, and Hans Madlinger); Hellmut Hattler; Joo Kraus; Tales in Tones (Ralf Schmid, Veit Hbner, Torsten Krill); Douglas Hopkins for his beautiful images; Ralf Albert for his Frankfurt views; Alexa and Alexander Waschkau for their positive radiance; Ralf Hls and Boris Nienke for valuable information; Tim Vollmer for the exciting locations; Peter Marquardt for nighttime lines; Marieke Thne for making contacts; Elisabeth File for freezing patiently; Paul Kelly for the low-level tripods; Richard PJ Lambert for his solar images; Jochen Mller for his hands; 11A for the pretty rear wall. And thanks to Moni for everything else... and the empty table.

Photo: Pax Ahimsa Gethen

In 2005, I swapped my full-time job for the world of freelance photography. Back then, the relatively new phenomenon called podcasting helped me gain a foothold and find out more about the things I really like to do. In my life as a photographer and photo coach I get to meet many interested and interesting people, and travel with them to the end of the world or, sometimes, just to the next village. At home in the View-finder Villa .

As a passionate podcaster, I regularly explain how photography works. Every week, my podcast at www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com covers a broad range of photographic topics as well as answers to listeners questions.

For a look into the future, visit www.thefutureofphotography.com, where my friend Adrian Stock and I explore the exciting ways new and emerging technologies will shape photography in the years to come.

As a consultant, I advise companies on how to improve their visual image by concentrating on human perception, the basics of great design, and the ways in which images affect various target audiences.

As a producer, I help companies and individuals to convert their ideas into customized images and video.

As a traveler, I help others to travel successfully, either in person or through the images and stories I bring back from my own journeys. Check out my podcasts or other online resources for more details.

Finally, as an author, I can delve much deeper into my favorite topics than my workshops allow. Check out the book The Film Photography Handbook, written with my partner Monika Andrae and published by Rocky Nook, Inc.

For more details on all of my activities, visit www.chrismarquardt.com.

Throughout the book, these bracketed numbers refer to a list of websites found in the References section of the appendices.