Field Trip 1: Rooftops in North Point

 

  1. Wide-angle

A partial skyline is revealed under the sunset.

  1. Zoom

Multi layers of pipes and wires show the complexity of a plain rooftop.

  1. Focus

Details as hardware can sometimes stand out.

  1. Crop

Without foundations and references, how could people tell the difference between fantasy and reality?

  1. Bird’s eye / aerial

The height ­of the city has never been that solid and clear until I stood on the rooftop of a 28-story building.

There is a strong feeling of isolation, from the crowd as well as the grounded reality. Due to security reasons, the rooftop is rarely visited by residents. The height of the building creates a distance away from everyday life. Thus, a rooftop could be considered as an no man’s land in the modern city, or more generally, in daily routine.

Also, the higher we stand; the broader view would be. Rooftop is such a place where nobody can see you while you can see everything. However, ­everything is much smaller than the reality.

I believe that standing on the rooftop always reveals the evidence of unusual experience, while the experience is beyond the reality and in distortion.

  1. Worm’s eye

It is on the rooftop that even a frog in the well can see the ­world.

  1. First person view

The first impression of a roof top is actually blocked.

  1. Skewed angle

It is the living atmosphere that shines in the gap of concert forest.

  1. Perspective

From some perspective, a ladder could lead to nowhere.

  1. View frame

A Window with a View.

  1. Seriality

The isolation of rooftop blows up when the time involved

  1. Chiaroscuro / Contrast

Variation of blue in Hong Kong’s sky.

 

Milena Mi Lan (3035332294)

1 thought on “Field Trip 1: Rooftops in North Point

  1. Kenrick says:

    Good trials of cropping, blue-orange colortone, view finding, especially I can see different expressive geometries (line and form) flattened on the photos. It can even be stronger if some upright elevational / less perspective views can be captured to show such geometries.
    Good sharings about ‘isolation’ and this series of photos can quite express such feeling!

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