A Dizzying Hong Kong as You’ve Never Seen It

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  1. crasianlee

    crasianlee Well-Known Member

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    This is pretty cool way to depict HK.
    https://www.yahoo.com/realestate/di...2986/photo-the-golden-cube-1449121100061.html

    A Dizzying Hong Kong as You’ve Never Seen It
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    Michelle Huffman
    December 2, 2015
    We’re used to seeing city skylines in photos: tall buildings and twinkling lights sprawled along the horizon against a dusky sky.

    But in real life, we take in cities on foot. You have to crane your neck and look up to see the tallest buildings looming over you.

    Photographer Peter Stewart saw the opportunity to capture a city from a pedestrian’s vantage point – and practically no city is as stuffed with high-rises as Hong Kong. Most of the city’s 7.2 million residents are crammed into apartment buildings that amount to vertical villages.

    The skyscrapers stretch into the heavens, dizzyingly and seemingly forever, thanks to his wide-angle lens. He finds the middle point between the buildings and points his camera straight up, giving the pictures a tunnel effect, he tells Yahoo Real Estate.

    His project, a photo series called “Stacked,” focuses on symmetry, pattern and repetition.

    “Over the past two years I have been constantly researching and hunting for new locations that fit the criteria,” he says.

    That means a lot of walking around with his head tilted sharply toward the sky. On his Instagram page, he uses the popular tags #lookupseasonand #neckxercise. (He posts on Flickr, too.)

    After taking many photos at various shutter speeds, Stewart plays with the digital files.

    “Rather than use a desaturated, darker color palette, I prefer to emphasize certain colors that make up the fabric of the buildings,” he says. “Little details like pipes, tiles or even washing hanging on the windows, I will draw attention to by boosting these colors.”

    The result is mesmerizing – and a little austere, though those details, like the different colored lights glowing inside various apartment units, sometimes hint at the life within.

    “I like to showcase these structures in a positive light, which is why there is a stylistic choice to manipulate certain details” – adding a more striking sky, for instance.

    He takes pictures straight-on for the series as well, when they emphasize the general idea of stacked homes.

    Stewart, an Australian-born travel photographer who lives in Hong Kong,sells his work on his website.
     
  2. ralphrepo

    ralphrepo Well-Known Member

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    Nicely done! Though not exactly world shattering news; IMHO, this should be in the Photography or China discussion forum?
     
    #2 ralphrepo, Dec 4, 2015
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