The Texas State Capital

If you are ever in Austin, make a visit to the State Capital Building. Entry is free. I suggest going there after 5pm, when the work day is over. You have the place largely to yourself and can use your tripod. I had a blast photographing all sorts of symmetry, both inside and outside.

For a shot like this to work, you really have to work hard in the field to nail the symmetry in camera. And to avoid any imbalance in the architecture because of a poor camera angle. I did a pretty good job here. I had very minor tweaks to the crop to get the Star Of Texas to be perfectly centered.

Technical Details:
- Nikon D7000 w/ Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8
- f/8 @ 11.5mm, 1.6 sec, ISO 100
- Processed in Lightroom

Scott Davenport

Scott Davenport is a landscape photographer and photo educator and based in San Diego, California. He leads photo workshops, writes photo books, hosts podcasts, makes tutorial videos, and feels weird referring to himself in the 3rd person.

He also can't help getting his feet wet photographing at the beach.

https://scottdavenportphoto.com
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