1. Wide-angle
With the use of panorama on the rooftop, the unique grand view of the city is captured. Rooftop is the best place to oversee the city for its height and what can be seen there. Panoramic photo taking is precious for capturing the wide and magnificent sight from the rooftop as it can include as much buildings as possible. By such, the scale of the city can be showed in one single picture.
2. Zoom
Zooming into the view depicts the life of citizens. Which makes rooftop a space isolated and distant in comparison.
3. Focus
With focusing the pipes on the rooftop, surrounding buildings are as if more distant from us.
4. Crop
Cropping roads from the picture made the picture more solemn. Along with the fact the human activities and the signs of it were being cropped off, the picture has a charm of coldness and silence.
5. Bird’s eye / aerial
Taking pictures from birds view manifested the altitude of the rooftop as well as the high differences of surrounding buildings.
6. Worm’s eye
Take pictures from the worm’s view give us more details of the rooftop.
7. First person view
First person view can make the viewer of the picture a sense of participation. As if the viewer is in fact in one of these rooftops.
8. Skewed angle
Skewed angle give us a different view of the rooftop. It shows a different angle of view of rooftops in ways that we do not usually see.
9. Perspective
Picture shows view that we do not usually pay attention to.
10. View frame
A string of frames are formed as if two connecting rooftops were identical.
11. Seriality
Series of photos taken from the rooftop shows the dynamic of the city.
12. Chiaroscuro / Contrast
The contrast of lights tells the distances of buildings from the view of rooftop.
TONG KWAN YU (3035564392)
Some nice one point perspective views such as 3,6,7,9. It will be stronger as a set of photos if 1-2 subjects or concepts are chosen to link up all the photos.