Hong Kong Gotham
I’ve spent a decent wedge of my Hong Kong holiday running around taking multiple-exposure shots to combine into HDR scenes, just like my previous set in Tokyo Gotham. Hong Kong is a great setting to create these images - the city shape-shifts from gleaming steel and glass to grimy neon-lit concrete everywhere you look. The HDR effect really brings out the hidden details in the time-eroded backstreets and accentuates the colours and reflections in the more modern architecture.
As always with HDR images, they look best LARGE. Go to my flickr set to see the larger versions and also some shots I didn’t put in this post.
HSBC Mothership - view large version
Towering - view large version
Midgar City Center - view large version
Backstreets - view large version
Times Square - view large version
Langham Place - view large version
Wartorn Hong Kong - view large version
Backstreets - view large version
Causeway Bay - view large version
Is the sky really of tat colour ? That’s a bit gloomy :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_City
those look amazing
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Absolutely stunning colors…
reminds me of the 1st Ghost in the shell anime
Suberb HDRs, YF - they definitely look AWESOME!
Did you use Photomatix or CS2 to put these together? (or something different entirely????)
hey ya, just popping by. great pictures… hope to see ya soon (if you even have the time to travel..) love from all at home
yeah. hope you’re having fun but basically you just need to get your ass back here so we can go get drunk. I’m freaking leaving soon you bastard.
oh, nice pics.
ya > I’m BACK you fool. I’m going out this weekend to the hapa japan thingy in Kabukicho. Will probably stay out and predicta-fucking-bly end up at Muse with the rest of the HJ Muse whores.
You in? Muse whore?
amazing set - i’ve recently started experimenting with HDR imaging too.
I love how parts of the picture jump out at you. Lovely Eye candy.
Reminds me of how different colours become more vibrant after a meditation session. If you want to dazzled by the greeness of a tree, then try zen.
Cocking-cuntflaps they’re good.
The light and color are stunning. I totally swiped the wartorn one for my desktop background.
Nice work Yong, what’s it like coming back home? I’ve been in Japan for 7 months now and am thinking about taking a break in Tokyo. There’s only so many days I can consecutively walk into a Nova office and not take a hunting knife to my arm under the table a la Michael Biehn.
Actually, it was great to come back and get stuck into work again. But then, I quite enjoy what I do.
mmmm salty wounds.
Excellent pics - anywhere we can buy copies / prints of these online?
Cheers
Now I am depating about what is more spectacular. The Building or getting such a shot of the Building. Nice Work. Just would hope that my Vacation Pictures would look that impressiv. Grettings from Switzerland
The pics are amazing - you should sell them. I’ve been looking for good HK pics a while. But the ones I found were as bland as mine. Love the Wartorn pic. Did you make any pics on the Kowloon promenade side?
I might be interested in purchasing an 8×10 print off you. How can that be arranged? :)
Justine > I’ve never really thought of selling any of these until recently, as I’ve had a number of inquiries. I’ll have to see how they look blown up, first. I have them at 2539 x 1691 as the highest resolution - I’ll have to get one printed to see.
Stay tuned, I might set up a little print download store or something, if I think they look good enough.
Around here, printing a large inkjet poster would cost around $15/square foot (~ $150 US per square meter?). Find a small shop that does inkjet posters; You could probably make a deal with the owner if you let him keep one as a display sample. They’re really that strong.
Amazing photograhpy. I especially like causeway bay. That red taxi somehow looks surreal to me. I’m also into phtography, and always have my camera’s on hand. Is it customary to swear or call someone a porkhole before I sign off? Nah, just kidding-
P.S. Love the site, and I have been thinking of doing a food test one myself— only thing is, I cant read Nihongo at all… except for the kanji for salt and eggs… dont ask.
-Meow
Amazing works
nice… colorful…like an anime about to perform.
hi, i was just browsing through these, and i really like ‘wartorn hong kong’.
reminds me of 1950s shanghai, hk glamour. with that seedy, gritty edge. yet romanticized at the same time.
You seriously need to write your HDR process into a tutorial, the stuff is pretty unbelievable and makes most HDR work I have seen tremble in comparison…
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how much does this program HDR COST?
Man, you’ve captured my emotional state each morning as I roll out of my Kwun Tong ghetto at 6:50am and about halfway to work I realize where the hell I am.
wonderful images
image and emotion in one
I can only reiterate all other comments: the shots are completely, gloriously saturated with colour, and I’d frame them on my wall. If you ever get around to making prints, they’d sell so well on etsy; if not, great work nontheless. Love it.
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I love this city!
Hello to yongfook and all yongfookers!
This is my first time posting here. Just wanted to say that I love all of your pictures as they are mind-blowingly amazing. I used a few of them in some recent artwork, I hope you don’t mind. You can see them here:
www.myspace.com/72263456
Also, a friend has asked me to do some artwork for her cd. I was wondering if I could use some of your pics as part of a collage of sorts. I could give you cred for the pics. Hmmm???
realy nice! at the time i’ve seen this pics i was for a short moment in hong kong! thank you for this experince! best regards from austria a fan of your picx Paul
[…] An amazing set of HDR images of Hong Kong by Yong Fook. The HDR effect really brings out the hidden details in the time-eroded backstreets and accentuates the colours and reflections in the more modern architecture. […]
I will not be original but…amazing shots !!