Architectural and industrial photography in digital medium format (EN & DE)

In the workshop “Architectural and industrial photography in digital medium format”, a maximum of ten participants will develop their own personal perspective on an outstanding building in Berlin (to be defined). Architectural photography has always been a discipline of photography in which large formats and cameras that offer functions for perspective correction such as the correction of distorted lines play a key role.

In this workshop you will have the opportunity to work extensively with cameras from the manufacturers ALPA and Phase One, as well as digital backs from Phase One. The workshop will be held in German and English language.

For this day we can provide several cameras such as the ALPA 12 MAX and Phase One XT as well as backs such as the IQ 4 with 150 MP.

Friday‍
Get to know the participants and the lecturer Alexander Schippel. He is an accomplished architectural photographer who sets standards with his work.He presents his own photographs and uses the images to address creative and technical topics of the genre. After a short theoretical technical introduction, the focus is on specific topics such as shifting, the effect of different lenses, the effect of perspectives and to become familiar with camera technology.

Saturday
We dive straight into the practice. Alexander Schippel accompanies the workshop participants throughout the entire day of shooting, advising on basic technical issues such as the optimum depth of field, correcting converging lines, but also on all artistic aspects of image composition. The cameras with the PhaseOne backs allow the photographer to develop a precise realisation of the motif in accordance with the architecture. Using this ability of the camera professionally and realising it artistically is the central theme of the first day of the workshop.

Sunday
The second day of the workshop is dedicated to an introduction to the Capture One software and the processing of the image series with Capture One (such as Lens Cast Correction and distortion correction). We will print some of the images in our p:berlin laboratories to demonstrate the step from digital capture to print. The workshop will conclude with a detailed discussion of the images with Ludwig Rauch, artistic advisor to the p:berlin academy.

Vita:
Alexander Schippel was born in Berlin in 1979 and grew up in the neighbouring area of the metropolis. He trained as a photographer at the Free University of Berlin from 1997 to 2000. His first publication of his photographs was published by Jovis Verlag in the final year of his studies: Potsdamer Platz – Urbane Architektur für das neue Berlin. With the founding of Atelier Schippel in 2004, he increasingly focussed on artistic photography. Longer projects have taken him to places such as Lusatia (2011) and the Berlin State Opera, whose complete refurbishment he artistically documented for six years (published by Hatje & Cantz in 2018).

Alexander Schippel is the founder and director of p: photography unlimited e.V. The association sees itself as a supportive network and artistic production centre for photographers in times of radical transformations in photography.

Alexander Schippel regularly curates exhibitions in galleries and is working on further illustrated books. He is currently photographing the refurbishment of the Bauhaus Archive and the Komische Oper in Berlin. Schippel’s work can be found in public and private collections, including the German Historical Museum in Berlin and the art collection of the German Bundestag.

www.alexander-schippel.de