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Wide-angle
A partial skyline is revealed under the sunset.
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Zoom
Multi layers of pipes and wires show the complexity of a plain rooftop.
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Focus
Details as hardware can sometimes stand out.
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Crop
Without foundations and references, how could people tell the difference between fantasy and reality?
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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.
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Worm’s eye
It is on the rooftop that even a frog in the well can see the world.
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First person view
The first impression of a roof top is actually blocked.
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Skewed angle
It is the living atmosphere that shines in the gap of concert forest.
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Perspective
From some perspective, a ladder could lead to nowhere.
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View frame
A Window with a View.
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Seriality
The isolation of rooftop blows up when the time involved
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Chiaroscuro / Contrast
Variation of blue in Hong Kong’s sky.
Milena Mi Lan (3035332294)
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!