Final Set

The final set aims to portray the light pollution emitted from the city. The set begins with an exterior shot looking into the city summing up the concept. It then moves into the city to show the quality of light within the city before heading back out to abstract these qualities through shifting the lens.  

Fifth Shoot

All my photos so far had been looking into the city from a distance so my fifth shoot was in the city to get a closer perception of what it was like be 'in' the pollution of light. These two were the most successful from the shoot. While the top photo has lens flare i feel in the context of the theme it does not detract from the photo as it is about light pollution and the flare almost reinforced the intensity of the light  by infecting the photo. The cloud about the building picks up all the light while just off to the side over the harbour there is a cleaner sky showing a huge contrast.

Fourth Shoot

The conditions were pretty cool for enhancing the polluted luminosity of the city with very low, thick cloud hovering over the city.  The citys lights reflected up off the cloud to create a haze over the city. The cloud even picked up individual lights of buildings seen in the photo below. It was a bit windy making for tricky conditions to get nice crisp photos on a long exposure but the following two were the best of the set.

Third Shoot

For my third shoot I tried pulling light to accentuate the 'pollution' within the city. This shoot was less successful than the first two. 

Second Shoot

This shoot I tried a similar technique from a different angle round at oriental bay.

This photo below was the most successful. The overall composition with the hazy clouds and the pulled  city lights make a visually interesting shot. While the lights have been pulled the foreground has stayed pretty crisp.

First Shoot

For my first shoot I set base up on Northland hill to get a view down onto the city to try and capture the light pollution emitted out from the buildings. The quality of light was not ideal to show this so I had a bit of an experimental shoot playing with long exposures and lens shifting. This produced a bunch of interesting images and two Im pretty happy with.  (2nd & 4th)

Star Trails

by NGC4594

by NGC4594