purplemattfish
No Left Turn - Day 27, Year 2
11/09/09
Taken for FGR task "creative spaces", as I could wander the streets of Manchester all evening.
and
TRP task "out and about" although I may be pushing the portrait aspect of the shot to extremes, the blur to the left of the frame is Maggie...
One thing it is very easy to forget is how lax the UK is regarding "jaywalking". Essentially in the UK pedestrians have the right of way on all roads except motorways. Here we are just wandering through the moving traffic. It was I bit of a culture shock when I visited Japan and saw how regimentally people obey road crossings.
We went to see District 9 tonight, I though it was beautifully dark and hilarious... although I suppose that says more about my mentality and the quality of the film. I liked the juxtaposition of characters perspectives, and the twisting of certain stereotypes. It is certainly worth a watch particularly if you liked Children of men. By comparison this film is a slightly watered down version with aliens and not quite so good cinematography ;)
There has been some press stating that the film is racist in it's portrayal of the Nigerian characters. I personally don't think the Nigerians are singled out, as the film is equally negative towards almost all the human characters. The Nigerians are portrayed as gun toting pimps and black market racketeers, and the remaining white and black South African characters are racist xenophobes desperately seeking a "final solution" to the alien problem. Nobody is presented in a positive light. Even the main human character starts off as a rather racist ignorant idiot.
For those of you who have read this far and remained interested ;) this shot was taken at 3200iso which seems very usable.
Lightroom: white balance, vignette, auto levels, reset the black point and push the brightness, sharpen, save to JPG.
No Left Turn - Day 27, Year 2
11/09/09
Taken for FGR task "creative spaces", as I could wander the streets of Manchester all evening.
and
TRP task "out and about" although I may be pushing the portrait aspect of the shot to extremes, the blur to the left of the frame is Maggie...
One thing it is very easy to forget is how lax the UK is regarding "jaywalking". Essentially in the UK pedestrians have the right of way on all roads except motorways. Here we are just wandering through the moving traffic. It was I bit of a culture shock when I visited Japan and saw how regimentally people obey road crossings.
We went to see District 9 tonight, I though it was beautifully dark and hilarious... although I suppose that says more about my mentality and the quality of the film. I liked the juxtaposition of characters perspectives, and the twisting of certain stereotypes. It is certainly worth a watch particularly if you liked Children of men. By comparison this film is a slightly watered down version with aliens and not quite so good cinematography ;)
There has been some press stating that the film is racist in it's portrayal of the Nigerian characters. I personally don't think the Nigerians are singled out, as the film is equally negative towards almost all the human characters. The Nigerians are portrayed as gun toting pimps and black market racketeers, and the remaining white and black South African characters are racist xenophobes desperately seeking a "final solution" to the alien problem. Nobody is presented in a positive light. Even the main human character starts off as a rather racist ignorant idiot.
For those of you who have read this far and remained interested ;) this shot was taken at 3200iso which seems very usable.
Lightroom: white balance, vignette, auto levels, reset the black point and push the brightness, sharpen, save to JPG.