Historical architectural photography course images
Historical architectural photography course images shot by Nigel Hicks during his 26th April 2026 workshop
In the city of Bath
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My 2026 spring season of photography workshops kicked off on 26th April with a day of historical architectural photography in the wonderful city of Bath. It proved to be a wonderful day of warm, hazy sunshine, which enabled us to shoot some great, well-lit buildings without have to battle with either the deep shadows and highlights of strong sunlight or the dull skies of a grey day.
The day started off with a long, leisurely look at the Royal Crescent, the famous arc of terraced Georgian houses that is one of Bath’s main icons. Despite a good dose of scaffolding and a host of parked cars, we were able to capture some great images. This was a real lesson in how to selectively compose your images to screen out unsightly components; the art of the possible rather than the ideal.
The day continued with a walk into the city centre to photograph the facades of the Roman Baths and Bath Abbey, the very heart of Bath’s historical city centre. From here we moved to some back street plazas, and then to the banks of the River Avon, with its views of Pulteney Bridge, one of the world’s few remaining shop-lined bridges.
The day finished with photography of Bath’s modern hot spa baths, set among historic buildings behind the city’s main shopping centre.
Photography techniques covered
In this historical architectural photography workshop I covered a range of photographic techniques, ranging from how to shoot entire buildings to how to pick out, select and compose building details.
I covered both of the two styles of architectural photography, namely:
- The ‘artistic’, where any creative angles and awkwardly sloping building walls resulting from the camera being tilted back are embraced and used as part of the creative compositional process. This is the technique most likely to be used for travel photography;
- The ‘correct’, in which buildings are captured perfectly upright, with their walls perfectly vertical and parallel. This is enabled through the use of either shift lenses, or a very wide-angle lens coupled with an interresting or creative foreground ‘below’ the building. This technique would be used in photography for architects and interior designers.
Above is a gallery of some of the images I shot during the Historical Architectural photography course. I hope you’ll enjoy them. Thanks for visiting this page.
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