Luminous Landscape Forum

The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Derryck on July 22, 2012, 07:24:49 am

Title: Modern Chinese landscape
Post by: Derryck on July 22, 2012, 07:24:49 am
The temple sits on top of a modern Chinese mountain range.

Taken from the window of my studio here in Shanghai just a few moments ago on an amazingly clear day. Sony RX100.

Title: Re: Modern Chinese landscape
Post by: Tony Jay on July 22, 2012, 07:50:37 am
Really intriguing image Derryck.

Thanks for sharing.

Regards

Tony Jay
Title: Re: Modern Chinese landscape
Post by: wolfnowl on July 23, 2012, 02:00:40 am
Quite the contrast.  Reminds me of the story of Alladin and the palace.

Mike.
Title: Re: Modern Chinese landscape
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on July 23, 2012, 02:16:42 am
Very nice shot, with clean, simple design. Well seen.
Title: Re: Modern Chinese landscape
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on July 23, 2012, 03:41:02 am
It's good to start the day with a smile. Thanks!

Jeremy
Title: Re: Modern Chinese landscape
Post by: jule on July 23, 2012, 05:03:36 am
How beautiful the light on the temple is. The composition is really balanced for me... and I love the positionin gof the craqne in the background.

Visually I am a little bothered a bit by the strong black frame you have presented the image in. It just seems way too heavy and cumbersome. Perhaps make it a little more charcoal to reduce the intensity of the black. It jsut seems to take over what is in front of my eyes...and instead of looking at all the wonderful shapes of the buildings... in my peripheral vision I see screaming out to me this strong black frame.

I would love to see a series of these images over a time frame.  Perhaps setting yourself a task to photograph at the same time every day for a month... or on every Monday.... or a time that you choose - perhaps on every hour of the day over a 24 hout period...but I would make it a constant - whatever perameter you use.... just to have a baseline to observe the variances in light/structure/colour etc.
Julie