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When shooting for an architect, the emphasis is not the style of the photographer, but that of the architect. For that reason, it is important that the photographer is able to capture all the subtleties of the interior and exterior of the structure including the features that make it uniquely that of the individual architect. Years ago, I was an assistant for a photographer who did work for local architects and I will tell you that other than lighting a motion picture set, setting up for shooting a building for the architectural firm was some hard work. There is probably one other job that matches that and that would be the work that the "roadies" do when preparing a "Worldwide Concert" venue. The pre-work necessary to achieve what the architect has in mind when he designed the building and being able to approximate it visually with camera and film some times took weeks of preplanning and a lot of work setting up the lights or "gelling" windows to balance not only the colour (mixed daylight and incandescent) but applying ND gels on critical windows in order to match the quantity of light entering them to match the ambient lighting inside. Most of the time the shoot was done using 4x5 transparency film and some exotic wide angle lenses. Many of the major players work can be found in the pages of the "Architectural Digest", but that only scratches the surface. There are many more excellent architectural photographers than there are page in the Architectural Digest. AIA is an excellent resource http://www.aia.org/index.htm Here is a link to an architecture photographers association. http://www.aiap.net/ If you use Yahoo Search, you will find any examples of what architectural photographers are doing now. In every case, it is all about lighting.