We know many of those places so well, but have never been there at the right time to see them like that. That must have taken dedication! (And also, some very nice kit.)
Did you see the techniques and tutorials pages, too? They looked worth a read.
Hm. I found them a bit painterly... I wasn't always sure I believed in the colours and lighting. But I don't know Cambridge very well, so maybe it's more colourful than I remember.
I liked the fantasy element, like the way Paris looks in Amelie. As if this is somewhere just slightly to one side of but overlapping the Cambridge I inhabit.
That's a tempting alternative... I made it because astrogirl2 complained that she couldn't read your Torchwood entry for fear of Life on Mars spoilers, and I protested that all I'd said in the particular subthread I'd linked to was that there was sometimes tiling in the background.
When I was in Oxford, somebody decided to bring out a series of postcards that were artier than the standard nice-building-on-a-sunny-day ones; they were called something like Romance of Oxford and were mostly taken in misty light. The Cambridge ones are a bit Romance of Cambridge, but he's cleverer at mixing mist with evening light.
Looking back through my post, my spoilers for Life on Mars are less than you get on the episode description on the BBC website, but I'm never sure how much detail people want to avoid.
I've lived in or near Cambridge all my life and I can assure you that the colours and light haven't been doctored. It's just that the photographer has a very good eye for the magic that is present at a particular moment.
They are fantastic pictures. i love low light imagery - thanks for the link, Alt :-)
Photoshop? Nah, i detect the judicious use of graduated filters. I photographed the Tamar bridges from Saltash and got similar effects - oly he's balanced the sky to the foreground more effectively.
OTOH, Photoshop does seem to play a part. But not a huge part. Anyway, there's nothing there that couldn't be done with a good Medium Format camera and some slow tranny film. IMHO of course ;-)
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Date: 2006-10-26 05:14 pm (UTC)We know many of those places so well, but have never been there at the right time to see them like that. That must have taken dedication! (And also, some very nice kit.)
Did you see the techniques and tutorials pages, too? They looked worth a read.
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Date: 2006-10-27 10:22 am (UTC)I've just been poking through those - they do look interesting!
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Date: 2006-10-26 10:33 pm (UTC)When I was in Oxford, somebody decided to bring out a series of postcards that were artier than the standard nice-building-on-a-sunny-day ones; they were called something like Romance of Oxford and were mostly taken in misty light. The Cambridge ones are a bit Romance of Cambridge, but he's cleverer at mixing mist with evening light.
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Date: 2006-10-27 08:09 am (UTC)Painterly?
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Date: 2006-10-26 08:25 pm (UTC)mk
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Date: 2006-10-26 09:53 pm (UTC)And I thought you might enjoy the link :-)
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Date: 2006-10-27 11:23 am (UTC)Photoshop? Nah, i detect the judicious use of graduated filters. I photographed the Tamar bridges from Saltash and got similar effects - oly he's balanced the sky to the foreground more effectively.
All in all, pretty damn good.
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