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Photographing Ruins
It is a good idea to always use a tripod when shooting buildings, ruins and similar sites. You want to keep
the camera level and rock steady while composing and carefully framing your shot with exactly the
information you are trying to capture, and you are doing all this while thinking about getting your exposure
and depth of field correct; too many things to keep track of and get right while hand holding your camera,
especially if you use a hand held light meter. When you move into the interiors of these ruins the reasons
will become more obvious with exposure times usually in the range of 1 to 30 seconds and longer.
It helps to lead your viewer into the interior of the building just as you would experience when walking into
the building yourself. Show a doorway and an entrance area, a hallway with details beyond to pull the
viewer in.
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