What to do on a rainy afternoon in Bergen, Norway?
After being a photographer for quite some time now I've found I'm able to see things, curious compositions, lighting effects and so on, that most folk would walk past without noticing.
This particular scene in downtown Bergen caught my eye immediately for the sheer strangeness of the composition, with the huge building sized poster dwarfing the still quite large statue.
This is a juxtaposition of contrasts, old and young, male and female, warm and cold, two dimensional and three dimensional, modern and historic and so on.
I spent a little while getting the arrangement of the statue and poster how I wanted and then cropped out distracting elements at the sides of the shot to focus attention on the main elements.
Bergen, not such a gloomy place after all!
Filename - statue face 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 100-400mm zoom @ 400mm
Exposure - 1/8sec @ f8, ISO100
Location - Bergen, Norway
This image - 472x800px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Tripod, mirror lockup and cable release used to prevent camera movement.
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