>>29906608 more months and I'm getting the fuck outta here! :)
>>2990662Guess I should have said *constructive feedback*
>>2990665I feel like at least a few of these aren't typical weeaboo tourist snapshits. Shit, not a single neon light or temple in this thread!
>>2990950>i'm just doing the more basic critical thing where I serve as a mirror for your work by describing what I seeAwesome, exactly what I want!
>the light here is good, actually perfect, hopefully this is a place/time you can come back to a lot and "stake it out"I transfer trains at this station 5 times a week every morning. In this instance I figured it'd be cool to have the train blurred so I waited until it was departing to fire a frame. In retrospect I don't think this was a good choice. I'm definitely going to reshoot this a ton of times. Thankfully the extreme punctuality of the trains here means I get this exact same scene every morning, so long as the sun is shining.
>the image ultimately seems to focus all our attention on the shiny black shoes of the studentsStoked you picked up on that! I've noticed that longish exposures tend to leave the feet in focus with everything else blurred, so it's something and seek out in the right conditions. To be honest, I wasn't expecting it to happen with this shot...but I guess the 100 speed film caused the camera to shoot at a slower shutter than I was anticipating. My main draw to the scene was the shadowed figure in the window + the totally visible students further out on the platform.
> I've been wondering lately if architecture photography should really be all about compressing the building down into a flat (2D) modernist abstraction or serviceable approximation thereof.Man, totally agree with this train of thought! It's something I'm totally into exploring, and I have explored it a bit in the past at another Tadao Ando building I visit (picture related).
