Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan - Light Abstraction
Photo by Brad Rickerby
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I see cities as contained chaos, especially the big ones. New York, Tokyo, Beijing, London, Paris, Bangkok, Shanghai. In all of them something is going on all the time. And that something is going on fast, and lots of other somethings are going on fast as well. And all of those somethings keep intersecting with the other somethings, like a great big pool table with all the balls traveling at light speed. That is how I try to make my urban scenes look. Lots of activity, interesting colorful activity going on full frame, top to bottom, side to side.
Sometimes you have to be creative to get the kind of vibrancy I want in an image. My father once told me, at a stock car race at night in Daytona, sometimes, he said, you just have to kick the tripod. More like I shook the tripod in this case. Try being playful with your time exposures. Sometime shake the tripod at the start or now and then at the end of the shutter opening. The image you create will actually look different. You should also shake the tripod for different lengths of time, from a swift little kick, to shaking through out the exposure. Once again, the images you produce will be very different.
The message is really this, have fun, be creative, break the rules. You will be glad that you did.
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