When I was in Hong Kong in the summer holidays we went up to the Peak tower where you get a wide view of the city. However all around you can still see the beautiful landscape and the rich green foliage. I got these three photos that show the differnet perspective and can completely change the way someone percieves hong kong.
These particular images show the huge contrast in Hong Kong between the city and the natural landscapes. I thought that these photos show the impact of the city and really stand out as they where all taken within the same few meters of each other.
These are my best images that I think really show the new topographic and the contrast between the natural beauty of the coastal landscape and the urban structures that are taking over the landscape. I edited these images in Lightroom by choosing the style and final outcome I wanted then created my own preset. During the edit process I first cropped and resized the images to get the horizon lines straight and focus in on parts of the image that I wanted to stand out. I then upped the kelvin/temp sliders to make the photo warmer to replicate the look from the new topographic photos. I then increased the vibrance to make the colours more visible but lowered the saturation dramatically to make the image more flat. This was instrumental in creating the vintage 1970’s look.
In this lesson we were learning how to adjust the white balance depending on the lighting of the environment. The white balance is the process of removing unrealistic colour casts, so that objects which appear white in person are also appearing white in your photo. On a DSLR the white balance can be change by using either WB presets or by changing the colour temperature manually. The colour temperature is measured in K Kelvins.
For example if we are shooting in a situation where there are yellow halogen lights then I would set the white balance to the tungsten preset which will set the kelvins to 3200k which makes the white parts of the image bluer therefor making the white balance ‘correct’.
New Topographic’s is a movement of Urban Landscape photography started in the 1870’s by photographers such as Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Joe Deal, Robert Adams, Stephen Shore and others. They began shooting and capturing images of what seemed to be regular (ugly) building or places, but they had a an unnoticed beauty with mountains in the backgrounds. Their photos were often considered dull and plain as they were taken straight on at the subjects, however, they were significant because of the meaning behind them.
These images show juxtaposition because of the ordinary everyday architecture that is placed in amazing beautiful scenery. This could be controversial because of the personal perception of the images
Urban Landscapes are landscape shots capturing the cities or towns. They often are shot in a way that shows a meaning or trying to tell the people something. This form of photography is a very wide genre. Urban landscape can include pictures of skyscrapers, high streets or even roads. Urban landscapes can also include ‘normal’ landscapes with bits of urban building or industrial things in it. With this type of photography, both closeups and wide shots can be taken, with people or without people.Often Urban Landscapes photography can be used to show the environmental impact of the industrialisation and huge amount of structures built or being built.
Photographer Lewis Bush took a series of black and white photographs that could be interpreted to be showing the negative impact of the development of building in cities. This series was called Metropole. They are in black and whit and have a lot of contrast.
