While it's impossible to capture the magnitude of this boat being built, it's always worth a shot. Crazy-ass thing to see. If I had my preference, I'd have gotten this with people walking the floors for scale, but no such luck.
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That's a lot of *stuff*. Great location.
ReplyDeleteIt feels overexposed...zooming in shows a lot of flaring. In this situation I usually shoot dark and trust RAW to have enough depth in the blacks to bring it back--better than losing detail to overexposure.
This angle is a bit like one of those "How Things Work" books, where it's all about the detail and the way things fit together. So I think it's fine that the scale isn't clear...those books sometimes even play with the idea of the giant as a miniature, like the whole ship was 2" tall.
I'm guessing you didn't have a lot of choice as to where to stand for this shot...if you did a bit more context would help with scale, like a little bit of factory floor.
With a big thing like this it often helps only to shoot some of it, like using the left 60% of this. Or a really interesting shot (if you have the resolution) is to zoom in on just the parts to the right of the vertical-crane-thing, just that narrow strip. It's got good contrast and depth.
Thanks for you comment, Alex. I agree that there is some context missing here and that the shot reads more like an object study than art. You're right about the POV, too. This was shot from the top of a small boulder outside the parking garage that I jumped up on just to try and minimize the presence of the barbed wire fence surrounding the construction area.
ReplyDeleteI do have a bunch of detail shots, including that bridge I think. My intention was to do a multi-image blend to get even more detail out of this. When I opened the single shot on the computer, though, I realized the image as a whole just wasn't compelling enough to warrant elaboration like that.
I'll see about posting another of the images from this day that captures a smaller, more interesting piece of this whole.
Thanks again.
sean - this is totally fascinating to me. i'd love to be able to zoom in more and more and more and more.
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