Field Trip I: Rooftops in North Point

Wide Angle:

 

Zoom:

We keep zooming in until we can see human figures in this dehumanizing world of skyscrapers.

 

Focus:

With my focus on the roof, the deep abyss seems flat and less horrifying.

 

Crop:

The other two sides of the square are deliberately cut off the frame to create a sense of lack.

 

Bird’s Eye:

Looking down from the rooftop and distancing myself from the fast-paced pedestrians.

 

Worm’s Eye:

Being overwhelmed by the monuments of modernity.

 

First Person View:

The plant out of focus is not merely a foreground element; it is, in fact, the viewing subject who sees everything else that in focus in the picture.

 

Skewed Angle:

Shot from an extremely low angle, the photo conveys the precise sense of unbalance that one feels when standing on a rooftop.

 

Perspective:

Through the mirroring effect of glass walls, the two buildings are interwoven into each other when seen from a certain perspective.

 

View Frame:

This picture is taken when Kenrick told us to gather together and showed us several screenshots from the film Infernal Affairs. It suddenly dawned on me that I could photograph the image of our group reflected on the glass wall, just like how Andy Lau is filmed in the third (and final) rooftop sequence. As I look back on this photo, I realize that the glass wall, functioning as a mirror, is not the only viewing frame here. Every photograph is basically a view framed by our camera, but normally this frame is too transparent to be noticed. In this photo, the photographer (myself, the first person to the left) is shown holding a camera in the picture, therefore exposing the viewing frame of the camera and destructing the illusion of transparency.

 

Seriality:

I tried desperately to capture the image of a bird soaring across the sky, but all I’ve got with the camera is, inevitably, a series of stills.

 

Chiaroscuro:

Dark tall buildings are violently splitting up the brightness of the earth’s surface.

Zhu Jieming (UID:3035448524)