Walls of blue before freedom fell
In November 2019 we went to Hong Kong. Protests against curbing freedom were going on for a few months, and happened 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. Nowadays Hong Kong is controlled by China, freedom is gone, and there is a big tension between the well off older generation leaning towards China, and younger generation that has an economic hardship due to the high cost of living and difficult employment situation in Hong Kong.
I processed a balanced, a photographic, and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW exposure, merged them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, desaturated the image, and added some vignetting. 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_hdr1bal1pho1pai1e.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2019 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Walls of blue before freedom fell
In November 2019 we went to Hong Kong. Protests against curbing freedom were going on for a few months, and happened 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. Nowadays Hong Kong is controlled by China, freedom is gone, and there is a big tension between the well off older generation leaning towards China, and younger generation that has an economic hardship due to the high cost of living and difficult employment situation in Hong Kong.
I processed a balanced, a photographic, and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW exposure, merged them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, desaturated the image, and added some vignetting. 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_hdr1bal1pho1pai1e.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2019 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography