Light as Subject

"Downtown Beijing, Just After Rain"

Photo: Trey Ratcliff

While the photo is of downtown Beijing the real subject of this photograph are the city lights.  Taking this photograph, the artists took into account a slow shutter speed, the pollution in the air, even the humidity and fog.  He knew that he wanted to showcase the massive amounts of lights, and intended to make the colors vibrant and bold.  The use of a slower shutter speed creates a glowing blur of light and you begin to see the  light pollution from the sky scrappers in the city as a beautiful sort of ethereal outpost.  The amount of different lights and colors captured also gives the photo a sense of chaos, which fits perfectly with this night time portrait of life happening in downtown Beijing. 

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