Times Financial Center, Shenzhen
It took nearly all of 7 months to do all the photography on this project and to get this particular shot. The construction of the project took a little longer than anticipated to complete. While the finishing touches were being put in, the developer then proceeded to slap a banner up the side of the building to declare it was complete and to advertise that the space within was to let. Then, one day in April, the banner was removed and the with this, the weather improved.
In doing the final photography, around 2 days was spent in and around the site and photographing the project from which ever angle offered the best views. This particular image was my key and defining image for the whole shoot. It all came together as envisaged – the angle, the lights, the lighting and the “perfect sky”.
This image was shot as is and it was shot on film. The only filtration I used was a 20 or 30 magenta CC filter and that was it. There was no dropped in background as seems to be the common thing to do in this digital age.
To shoot the image, I used a Panfield 4×5 inch field camera with a 6×9 cm roll film back and a Schneider 90 mm f/8 lens.
While this image was shot on film I had to do a hi-res scan – this serving two purposes. One was to deliver the image to client, The was that the image still required some “reworking”.
This project has surrounded by various other development that were still under construction. As a result, the skies surrounding the building were full of gantry cranes and other artefacts. These needed to be removed. The up-lighters on the right spire weren’t working. So I had to clone the left spire to fix the image. After this did some colour correcting to clean up the lighting on the building. This meant adding more magenta which helped enhance the sky, cleaned up the foreground a little and that was about it.
TECHNICAL NOTES: The original image was taken using a Panfield 4×5 inch field camera, a Schneider 90 mm f/8 and 6×9 roll film back. The film used as Fuji Velvia. The design architects were the US firm of Brennan Beer Gorman / Architects whose head office is located in New York.
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This and other similar images can be now be found over at my image archive at Photoshelter.
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Rogan is currently based in Hong Kong where he undertakes photography assignments and commissions for corporate, design and editorial clients. Rogan specialises in Arcitectural, Event and Portrait photography.
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Times Financial Center.
Times Financial Center, Shenzhen
It took nearly all of 7 months to do all the photography on this project and to get this particular shot. The construction of the project took a little longer than anticipated to complete. While the finishing touches were being put in, the developer then proceeded to slap a banner up the side of the building to declare it was complete and to advertise that the space within was to let. Then, one day in April, the banner was removed and the with this, the weather improved.
In doing the final photography, around 2 days was spent in and around the site and photographing the project from which ever angle offered the best views. This particular image was my key and defining image for the whole shoot. It all came together as envisaged – the angle, the lights, the lighting and the “perfect sky”.
This image was shot as is and it was shot on film. The only filtration I used was a 20 or 30 magenta CC filter and that was it. There was no dropped in background as seems to be the common thing to do in this digital age.
To shoot the image, I used a Panfield 4×5 inch field camera with a 6×9 cm roll film back and a Schneider 90 mm f/8 lens.
While this image was shot on film I had to do a hi-res scan – this serving two purposes. One was to deliver the image to client, The was that the image still required some “reworking”.
This project has surrounded by various other development that were still under construction. As a result, the skies surrounding the building were full of gantry cranes and other artefacts. These needed to be removed. The up-lighters on the right spire weren’t working. So I had to clone the left spire to fix the image. After this did some colour correcting to clean up the lighting on the building. This meant adding more magenta which helped enhance the sky, cleaned up the foreground a little and that was about it.
TECHNICAL NOTES: The original image was taken using a Panfield 4×5 inch field camera, a Schneider 90 mm f/8 and 6×9 roll film back. The film used as Fuji Velvia. The design architects were the US firm of Brennan Beer Gorman / Architects whose head office is located in New York.
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This and other similar images can be now be found over at my image archive at Photoshelter.
_____
Rogan is currently based in Hong Kong where he undertakes photography assignments and commissions for corporate, design and editorial clients. Rogan specialises in Arcitectural, Event and Portrait photography.
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