Stepping on yellow
Hong Kong has protests going on for a few months now. Nowadays they happen mainly on weekends. My niece from Switzerland, a Chinese friend, and I took a bus that was scheduled to go through the protest area in Tsim Sha Tsui on Sunday. The bus stopped a few blocks before the area, and the bus driver asked everybody to disembark - end of service due to protests. We walked two blocks towards the protest area. We only saw police in riot gear, no protesters. Over 100 of them, maybe 200. At one point the police blocked off the streets, so we could not proceed further. I took this shot from a higher vantage point, pointing out the militarization of the police. Notice the red painted letters on the street.
There is a big tension in the community between people supporting the yellow movement, aka protesters (mainly young folks), and people supporting the blue folks, aka the riot police and officials friendly to mainland China. This shot is symbolic, the blue police stepping on yellow.
I processed a balanced, a photographic, and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW exposure, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- ƒ/7.1, 135 mm, 1/320 sec, ISO 250, Sony A6000, SEL-55210, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC5949_hdr1bal1pho1pai1d.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Stepping on yellow
Hong Kong has protests going on for a few months now. Nowadays they happen mainly on weekends. My niece from Switzerland, a Chinese friend, and I took a bus that was scheduled to go through the protest area in Tsim Sha Tsui on Sunday. The bus stopped a few blocks before the area, and the bus driver asked everybody to disembark - end of service due to protests. We walked two blocks towards the protest area. We only saw police in riot gear, no protesters. Over 100 of them, maybe 200. At one point the police blocked off the streets, so we could not proceed further. I took this shot from a higher vantage point, pointing out the militarization of the police. Notice the red painted letters on the street.
There is a big tension in the community between people supporting the yellow movement, aka protesters (mainly young folks), and people supporting the blue folks, aka the riot police and officials friendly to mainland China. This shot is symbolic, the blue police stepping on yellow.
I processed a balanced, a photographic, and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW exposure, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
-- ƒ/7.1, 135 mm, 1/320 sec, ISO 250, Sony A6000, SEL-55210, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC5949_hdr1bal1pho1pai1d.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography