Field Trip 1 [Roof Top]

1. Wide angle: This photo captures the wide-angled view of the skyline along with the river, a sign that can only be seen at higher place such as a roof top.
2. Focus: This photo focuses on the plants that manage to live through the concretes of the rooftop and fades out the metal structure layout on the roof.
3. View frame: This picture is the door frame that leads one to the roof of the factory building, the frame is a gateway that shows different feel/type of picture in one photo together.
4. Chiaroscuro: The photo shows the contrast between light and dark, how the buildings cast shadows on the roof due to the sunlight.
5. First perspective: I think this picture gives the feeling that it is yourself looking up at the ladder, intending to climb up.
6. Skewed angle: This specific angled photo of the building creates an illusion that the building is taller and grander than it actually looks.
7. Crop: The protective metal fences around the roof crops out the view of the city skyline.
8. Bird’s eye: This bird’s eye view of the area of North Point shows the streets, windows of other buildings as well as  roofs of lower buildings
9. Zoom: This is a zoomed photo of one of the walls of an adjacent building to the rooftop; with the zoomed photo, it is hard to tell what was exactly taken in the photo.
10. Worm’s Eye: This photo is taken from the ground up, capturing another wild plant growing through the concrete and this specific angle of the photo makes it look.
11. Perspective: In the photo, the perspective line of how the building seems to disappear smaller as we look down from the rooftop.
12. Seriality: These four photos are a collection of airconditioning cooling vents(?) found in rooftops in each roof.

ZOOM:

I took more interest in the zoom photo than the 11 other types of photos as I find zoomed photo more humorous and intriguing. The photo I took was for sure one of the walls of a building adjacent to the building we were in the rooftop of. But, without this explanation, I couldn’t help to wonder whether others would have been able to guess at what the subject of the photo was with a glance. And I think that while rooftops give you a lot of a wide, whole view of things, zoomed photos of things observed on the rooftop can create various unique, unexpected photos.

Sujung Lim