“霧山水 Fog, Mountains, Water” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130321.7D.35763

Everything is a blur on a foggy day like this. Amazingly I have already tried expanding the dynamic range a bit with curves, but it still takes quite some effort to extract some details. If you have a sharp eye, you will find two ships sailing amidst the serene waters. The color is so muted that they appear almost like color noise—and they do. But there is something comforting about this blue gray hue, so I kept it.

 

In Chinese traditional painting, landscape is called 山水. 山 means mountains. 水 means water. Together they mean landscape—as it appears that those are the two key ingredients which makes up a Chinese landscape. Which this should be one. The ships is the 人氣 life force—another necessary ingredient in Chinese painting. No matter how tiny, they add a bit of life to the overall composition. Thus this is me trying to do Chinese painting, through photography.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-03-21 12:13:33 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456

+ Exposure: 1/125 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 34 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

+ GPS: 22°25'31" N 114°13'15" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG

+ Subject: 中國香港八仙嶺和吐露港 Tolo Harbour + Pat Sin Leng, Hong Kong, China

+ Serial: SML.20130321.7D.35763

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 自然 Nature, 山水 Landscape

 

“霧山水 Fog, Mountains, Water” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130321.7D.35763

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