The lone window cleaner Photo

Photographer’s Note

Returning to my photos from Japan I came over this one while looking through my collection.

This is a photo I took while me and some of my travel companions were visiting Akihabara, Electric town Tokyo.

The center of Tokyo is the location of many great glass and steel skyscrapers. And the fact that they are almost all covered in glass menas they have to be cleaned once in a while.
This day the job was put to this man, dangling some 30-40 meters above ground he was just casually doing his job like anyone on ground would do.

Not much to say other than that.
The photo has been slightly cropped and increased the colour saturation of the blue uniform by +10.

Enjoy!

Odd Jarle

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cobraphil8 (11652) 2008-06-16 5:44

Hi Odd,
It is an interesting scene with this scrubber windows that appear alone on this front, against the image is not quite contrasting to my taste.
So I tried a workshop to see.
What do you think?
Regards
Philippe

[workshop] [compare] +

giorgimer (21676) 2008-06-16 9:35

Hi Odd,

surprising image. I like the way you composed the image, the contrast between the dressing and the BG is effective.

TFS

Gio

Sistercosmo (2801) 2008-06-16 14:17

Hi Odd,
excellent capture. I like "the tiny spot of blue" as the point of attention. It comes out even better in Philippe's workshop, but I wouldn't really have noticed if I hadn't compared. Your subject certainly doesn't have a fear of heights.
Looking forward to more photos from Japan.
Thanks,
Linda

deano (178) 2008-06-17 2:10

Great capture! Rather him than me, nice work!
TFS,
Dean.

AKITA (5683) 2008-07-03 11:24

dear Odd Jarle Jorgensen,
this is a very artistic shot,
the texture and pattern of windows are nice, and the worker is well captured in this sea or sky of the window.
to tell the truth, when I was a student, I was working at just this job! it was very joyful to me.
thank you,
Akihisa

Photo Information

Copyright: Odd Jarle Jorgensen (dragonslayero) (3108)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-05-09
Categories: Daily Life
Camera: Canon EOS 40D, Sigma 18-200 DC OS f:3.5-6.3, Extreme III 4GB, Kenko Pro1D Circular PL(W) 72
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/250 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2008-06-16 5:16