Reference photos for 'match photo' practice

[Artistram3d1]

Hello everyone
At the risk of sounding like a complete noob (which I am)
where can I find photos for practicing 'match photo' work?
I've already searched the web, but couldn't find any
that would meet the proper criteria, i.e.: proper angle showing
both front/side, no cropping, nothing obscuring view from the
front, etc.

Thanks for your help!
Rama

[Rich O Brien]

I suppose taking a few pictures yourself of a building you're familiar with is the best approach. That way you're sure you've everything you need to practice with.

[Hieru]

I often use www.contemporist.com as a source of architectural inspiration. www.archdaily.com & www.homedsgn.com can be pretty good as well.

The quality of photography is usually very high and I've saved quite a few image sets for future use on projects where I will possibly use SU's photomatch.

[Gaieus]

Be careful with those and PhotoMatch. They are typically those "architecture" photos with shift lenses - look at the verticals; they are all verticals and I suspect that many of them were made artificially verticals - i.e. no real, "original" perspective in them.

Then almost certainly all are cropped for more artistic presentation - which is particularly not suggested when using PM.

Great images but "just" images (from this point of view)

[Hieru]

To get around shift lens issue you can reintroduce converging verticals using an image editor and then use photomatch. It takes a bit of guesswork and fine tuning, but you can get good results. That's the approach I used here:

[Rich O Brien]

Nice

[Gaieus]

@unknownuser said:

Nice

Indeed.

[Hieru]

Thanks guys

I haven't used the technique much, but imagine it will work in most circumstances.