Look Behind You

Shanghai . the un-beautiful part . from the deck of a 6000 dollar a night penthouse suite

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  1. ★

    Tibor Nad, poppelus, karl.wagner.photography, onkel_wart (thomas lieser), and 46 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. DeeMac (18 months ago | reply)

    Looks like the cover of a sci-fi novel. Love the skewed perspective, which adds to the surreal feel, but I suspect many will think you should have corrected all those leaning buildings. Not me, however. cool

  3. Jonathan Kos-Read (18 months ago | reply)

    I actually tried doing a lens correction on it. I didn't think it looked as cool - flatter, less weird.

  4. Dave_B_ (18 months ago | reply)

    shall we distort the picture a little more?

    uncool

  5. NAHppy (18 months ago | reply)

    it's a real shame that it gets so soft at the edges

    uncool

  6. Jonathan Kos-Read (18 months ago | reply)

    Lol. Right on schedule.

  7. Jonathan Kos-Read (18 months ago | reply)

    I know. It's the main problem with the Sigma 14mm. *Sigh* If only the Nikon 14-24 were also $250 . . .

  8. onkel_wart (thomas lieser) (18 months ago | reply)

    it's the end of the world as we know it....

  9. onkel_wart (thomas lieser) (18 months ago | reply)

    the world is sometimes soft around the edges, that's the main problem... ;-)

  10. -p-a-u-l- (18 months ago | reply)

    posh and uncool

  11. .Zickie. (18 months ago | reply)

    The spectacular nature of the sky is really brought out in the processing. unfortunately it shoves alot of the building into the area of the lens where the distortion goes from adding to the picture and making it weird. Especially where the tops of the taller buildings start to "fall" away from the centre of focus.

    Uncool

  12. Rob-Shanghai (18 months ago | reply)

    For 6000 dollars a night I would expect better weather :-)

  13. Jonathan Kos-Read (18 months ago | reply)

    Lol. We weren't actually staying there. It was for a BTV travel show. "Look how amazing China is! Look how rich!" type stuff. I was hosting. Pretty smokin' room though.

    Anyway, I took Ansel Adams' advice and looked behind me instead of shooting the Pearl Tower. Sort of pleased with the result. Comp could be better.

    Did you like my "Schoolgirl Lost in the Rain" pic?

  14. Rob-Shanghai (18 months ago | reply)


    Sorry mate I missed it, I was a bit busy towards the end of last month so I guess it slipped through. The colours and refections are outstanding and I think you got the scale and composition right, I read that some would prefer the girl to be larger In the shot but for me she could have been even further away and still remain the primary subject. I have to get out more in the rain, guess I am too lazy. Btw, I think the shot would work well also in B&W

  15. Still The Oldie (18 months ago | reply)

    A great ad for the Nikon 14-24mm...

    But in any event, the concept of showing the less salubrious side is a good idea, and there is much to like in the execution, but I think you show the shot disrespect by not addressing the unnecessary distortion, like here, for instance:
    6375127249_cac38e99c8_o

    uncool

  16. leesure (18 months ago | reply)

    I count 5 uncool votes...tag people!

  17. leesure (18 months ago | reply)

    Blade-runner knock off. Interesting, but the corner softness killz it.

    uncool

  18. Lumberjack's Photos (18 months ago | reply)

    I think your photo is lost, maybe at about 30mm it would bring that light closer and still include enough buildings, and get no distortion.
    uncool

  19. Still The Oldie (18 months ago | reply)

    And that seals it. To the Muck Pile!

  20. Erylicious (18 months ago | reply)

    Amazing

  21. addie cass (18 months ago | reply)

    I would have cooled it.

  22. Ray Majrowski (18 months ago | reply)

    Like the futuristic city scape feel to it, the leaning buildings and the cloud perspective draw the eye to the centre of the image, the corrected image has less impact.
    cool.

  23. Jonathan Kos-Read (18 months ago | reply)

    Well, that's what I thought. But nobody agreed.

  24. tamjty (18 months ago | reply)

    very nice shot showing off the tension in the photo and dynamic sky

  25. stumayhew (18 months ago | reply)

    apocalyptic

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  27. Ted Raynor Photography (11 months ago | reply)

    It is a pleasure to meet you Jonathan.

    I love sci fi and Blade Runner is one of my all- time favorite movies. So like some of the others, I like the futuristic feel of it. I often play around with lens correction stuff but rarely like the outcome of it so I just usually leave the shot as it was.

  28. giulia19782013 [deleted] (3 months ago | reply)

    Senza parole! Complimenti

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