Thursday, July 2. 20092009.04.30: Peter Hemingway's former home
Recently, I have taken an interest in architectural photography. It was opportune that one of my printing clients owned a house once built as a notable architect's primary residence and was in the process of moving. Frank Grisdale, a longtime printing client soon turned into a photography client when he booked me to photograph his home, designed by and once owned by Peter Hemingway, without the mandate to document but to interpret artistically. It was an interesting assignment. The architect is responsible for the design of Edmonton landmarks such as the Muttart Conservatory, Coronation Pool, and the Stanley Engineering Building and this one of a kind building presented many challenges and opportunities to create images that were out of the ordinary.
All photos shot with the Horseman LE and the Calumet Caltar-N/Rodenstock Grandagon-N 75/4.5 on Kodak Portra 160VC film, processed by ABC Photocolour in Vancouver, and scanned back in my studio on a Microtek Artixscan M1.  I'm starting with one of the photos from the shoot more typical of architectural photography. I chose to shoot at F/22 to keep everything in focus. I also kept the planes parallel and used some vertical displacements to prevent parallel lines in the frame from converging. I used a Lee polyester 80C filter to correct the colour temperature more towards daylight for the daylight balanced film but didn't do a full correction to maintain some of the warmth of the room lighting. The fireplace is running outside of the frame camera left to give the surface of the fridge a bit of light. A halogen table lamp was placed in the stairs leading to the basement and the lights in the dining room were turned on but dimmed slightly.  Unlike most homes that I have come across, this home has extensive hallways and is very linear; it has above average square footage though it's not gigantic yet the house measures about 200 feet from end to end. This is the hallway leading from the master bedroom to the hot tub room.  The hot tub room. It's dry in this photo because Frank is usually the only one who uses it and he only uses it in winter. Too bad because it could have scored him so many scantily clad hot females. Anyhow, I wanted to get the rail and part of the tree in focus while reducing focus to the rest of the frame. It was an interesting experiment that I feel yielded an aesthetically pleasing image though I have had mixed reviews from other photographers about my choice in the use of significantly amounts of tilt.  A portal from the dining room to the solarium that Frank and his wife use as their offices. I employed some tilt and swing to obscure some of the details in the other room.  You'll see in a later entry that I love shooting bathrooms. This particular bathroom, while simple, was thoughtfully designed to efficiently distribute space and integrate any features. The bathtub is slightly depressed to reduce step up, there is a carefully placed window, and a reading nook by the toilet in which reading materials may be stored. Frank and his wife commissioned this bathroom to be fully renovated and part of the renovations included some hand-picked slate tiles. I used a the bottom end of a Cokin graduated tobacco filter from the Z-pro 4" filter system to help balance some of the window light with the incandescent indoor light and also to help reduce the intensity of the window light to retain a bit of detail from the outside. Comments
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