Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Shanghai Landscape
Comments:
One of the things that I like about the multi-author aspect of visiting Stills is the unplanned juxtapositions. This morning....Shanghai and the Anole on the same screen.
This is quite an awesome sight, and a place I likely will never see with my own eyes. I like the way it is composed with the highway curving through the image (or is it wandering off the bottom right corner) ;-)
Yikes, not my bottom right corner again! but yet you may be right, I need to bring down the values of those cars in that corner as well as some roofs in the middle bottom edge. Thanks!
Believe it or not, this was out my hotel window (on the 56th story)...I just had to componsate for some window glare. I am going to try to get the same if not similar room location when I return.
Doug - are you aware of the Nanpu bridge story?
http://www.epuk.org/The-Curve/456/visual-plagiarism
Just for when you go back :-)
(Note the lower LEFT corner bias....)
Two things stand out here: first, the skyscrapers nearly lost in the smog and, second, the great sweep of the flyover. The tinting is just right to describe the smog: just the faintest hint of a slightly toxic yellow. I have no problem with the positioning of the road bottom right, nor the cars; indeed, the cars give the feel that they're just moving out of the picture. I think that the picture has great coherence and uses the vantage point well.
It has a dystopian feel to it and even (thank you Ridley Scott) echoes 'Blade Runner'.
I did not mean to leave the impression that I thought the position of the road was a problem -- I don't -- I like the composition of it.
I was really just teasing, since reading Doug's blog comments the other day.
Christina, I thought as much! ;- )
But nevertheless after a second look, I do think that it would benefit a little tweak in that corner and edge.
Interestingly I had not paid much attention to this image until I knew I was heading back to China. So I did a "what if" with a couple of my earlier images (in color this was a gray smoggy flat mess) just to try to understand the potentialities, and this image after all of the mojo adjustments just PoP'd and it kinda of Wow'd me. Reminds me of some the NYC photos made in the 1940's and 50's.
This reminded me of this image. I know it is not the same place.
I like the recession in this image. It is busy in an ordered way, there is lots to look at and it invites study.
Is there a 'dark' quardrant in the bottom right corner?
A delightful window study. The road divides the picture up well and gives you the segments to work in. Shame the front tallest building was built so high as a complete view of the road would have worked a little better for me. As Matt said, the smog adds some atmosphere to the proceedings. There is a definite fall off bottom right but the traffic on the roads seems to be pulling it back on.
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Believe it or not, this was out my hotel window (on the 56th story)...I just had to componsate for some window glare. I am going to try to get the same if not similar room location when I return.
http://www.epuk.org/The-Curve/456/visual-plagiarism
Just for when you go back :-)
(Note the lower LEFT corner bias....)
It has a dystopian feel to it and even (thank you Ridley Scott) echoes 'Blade Runner'.
I was really just teasing, since reading Doug's blog comments the other day.
But nevertheless after a second look, I do think that it would benefit a little tweak in that corner and edge.
Interestingly I had not paid much attention to this image until I knew I was heading back to China. So I did a "what if" with a couple of my earlier images (in color this was a gray smoggy flat mess) just to try to understand the potentialities, and this image after all of the mojo adjustments just PoP'd and it kinda of Wow'd me. Reminds me of some the NYC photos made in the 1940's and 50's.
I like the recession in this image. It is busy in an ordered way, there is lots to look at and it invites study.
Is there a 'dark' quardrant in the bottom right corner?