Big Brother IS Watching You! Photo

Photographer’s Note

Part of the IBM Building in Chicago, taken at night about a mile or two away with a Nikon 80-400mm telephoto lens, 400mm focal length.

I shudder to think what a more powerful lens would see.

Had to saturate colors and sharpen.

For scale, here's the same building taken a few days later among its neigboring buildings.

Jaimeson, mortijo, torben, sway, berek, coco, cobraphil8, apazevedo has marked this note useful

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Jaimeson (53) 2005-10-06 15:49

Wow! Great zoom! Your title suits the image taken...and the link to the image zoomed out really gives you perspective on the distance this shot was taken from. TFS!

mugush (2088) 2005-10-06 15:53

Nice photo man! good lens to capture with..
Hey it seems to me like scene from the serial 'Big brother'
thanks for sharing
Love
Mugush

danyy (67882) 2005-10-06 15:55

Bonjour Ken,
J'aime beaucoup l'originalité de cette photo et le côté impersonnel qu'elle donne à ces bureaux, excellents motifs répétitifs, même les couleurs s'en melent.
Bien vu.
Daniel.

maevakilla (1306) 2005-10-06 15:58

Hello, nice composition and good idea to take the windows of a business building. i did a WS because i think that it needed more contrast and sharpness. hope you'll like it.

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rhizomes (15325) 2005-10-06 16:06

Hi Ken !
It's a very interesting picture !
It's a very strange sensation looking at all these windows, almost all the same.
Congratulations !
Christophe

ElSato (824) 2005-10-06 16:24

Ken,

Nicely done. An image that can mean many different things and therefore requires no explanation... it can be left to the viewer to find his or her own ideas in it.

I like the saturation a lot... it gives a lot of life to the contents of those little rectangles.

Lee

torben (3084) 2005-10-06 16:29

Rather interesting pattern here with the regular grid of the facade overlaid on the both organised and random clutter behind.
There is a labyrinthe feeling to this that communicates the theme of brigbrother, kafka etc.
The greenish yellow neon light also helps with this and I even think the lack of sharpness is fine here it gives a surveillance cam look. Maybe even a touch of noise could be in place here although the image also works fine without.

Yamada (2309) 2005-10-06 16:59

VEry nice composition. That's a way of looking at skyscrapers/office buildings in a totally different way. I like it. Good job

KevRyan (22297) 2005-10-06 17:16

I have seen giant images like this executed with pin sharp technical ability - but I still like your softer focused effort - you had the idea and saw the possibility creaing a really interesting and arresting image despite it's issues.

best wishes Kev

thebig_d81 (777) 2005-10-06 18:27

Thats cool. To get something like that too work is quite a skill. Try to take a little yellow out of the shot and you have a good photo.
Darren

don_narayan (2014) 2005-10-06 20:02

oooph!! great shot, well framed, great floresent lighting. very nice indeed.

sway (360) 2005-10-06 22:55

HI Ken,
It is amazing what can be seen from the out side. Lots of lives just going about there own thing.
Nice shot.
I like the chaos within the symmettry.
Nice work
:)

berek (28750) 2005-10-07 1:21 [Comment]

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Haymotion (1793) 2005-10-07 5:13

Photo très graphique et design !
Idéé original et bien réalisé
Beau travail
Bien vue
Vince

coco (27560) 2005-10-07 15:48

Hi Ken.
Very good your composition. Also good light.
Perhaps the sharpness is not perfect, but working with a 400mm focal lenght at the night... a good job.
Regards.

faubry (32191) 2005-10-09 5:10

this shot like one of my shot from romania, the same composition... very impressionnant! i like it
bravo
francine
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HNIK (1104) 2005-10-11 9:34

Its so amazing!!!
your vision very good and well done ken!
very interesting shot.
Regards

rowanb (864) 2005-10-11 9:56

hi ken
nice shot, very graphic
i can see some nice offices in there =)

cobraphil8 (11650) 2005-10-14 6:26

Superb framing and idea, on the other hand it misses very small little clearness, without what it would have made party of my favorite.
Could you go to take it again by spending more exposure time and by closing the diaphragm with f11?

Greetings

Philippe

ndb1958 (9228) 2005-10-20 0:03

Hi Ken,
this is great. Perfect picture. I like it so much.
Nino

everlasting (10894) 2005-10-20 3:23

Nice lens you have there. A very good graphical shot. The slightly different hues and the softness make this different,

ercans (0) 2005-10-27 5:23

Hi Ken,
Which is yours?
Nice picture.
Ercan

photovolos (931) 2005-12-01 6:58

Hi Ken.This photo like me so muth.Excuse me for
not speaking english well,but i want to write
something....Good idea,concern frame,smart title.
Friendly Yiannis

apazevedo (5469) 2005-12-19 10:02

An excellent title, according to the subject, Ken...
An impressive and strong view that pleased me a lot. An excellent idea and very good composition!

TomekWalkiewicz (233) 2006-02-07 5:55

fantastic idea!
GREAT SHOOT
well done