http://www.danheller.com/images/UnitedStates/Washington/Seattle/Cityscapes/Nite/Slideshow/img5.html
Metropolis - Vancouver, Canada
Massimo Strazzeri
http://www.massimostrazzeri.com/Cityscapes.html
Streets of Ayala Ave
Edwin Martinez
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2065/2207495507_fd23142055_o.jpg
All three of these images have different viewpoints. One is straight with the horizon, the second is more of a birds eye and the third is from worms eye. All were shot during the evening or early morning time where there are lots of lights but there is still some soft daylight so that the viewer can still see the faces of the buildings and not just silhouettes. They all look like long exposures and most notable in the last image. all maintain the idea of the cityscape with nice big buildings up front fading into smaller buildings in the distance.
They all have a lot of depth and noticeable foreground/background/mid-ground relations.
In the first image the focus is on the mid-ground. There are a few smaller more detailed buildings in the foreground but the are shadowed by the magnificent size of the buildings in the mid-ground. The background does show a MT. Rainier in the back which is a huge mountain but compared to the buildings its tiny. The second image also focuses on the mid-ground but there is a huge building in the foreground that catches your eye the first time you look a tthe image.
The third image also focuses on mid-ground. There is some kind of vehicle in the road in the foreground and some kind of fence but using the long exposure leaves the car transparent so most of the focus remains in the foreground.
As for size contrast, there is lots of difference in the sizes of the buldinds and the main focus of these images are of the monumental buildings that put the rest of the city in its shadow. I mean, you can see cars and such but the main focus is on the buildings. The image that has the most size and detpth contrast, I think, is the third image. I dont know if it was a wide angle lense or what but you get a real sence of depth. At first you can see chains, even road cones but then you get this gigantic building in the midground that isn't as detiled as the cones but can only be appriciated for its grander design as a building as a whiole.
For contrast , theses all show good contrast due to the time of day they were shot at but the black and white image, being black and white is the most noticeable. You can really see how certain highlights and shadows in the composition really interact with each other to create separation and depth. With the skyscraper in the foreground you can see a bright line on the very edge of the left face which makes it pop-out from the buildings in the background. This same highlight is echoed on other buildings into the background; keeping the picture from looking like a mass of shadowy blocks and allowing them to each hold their own form.
The last two images I think are framed very well and hold the viewers attention on the cityscape as a whole. However, I find the first image looks like it should have been taken a little more of the left or cropped to the right. My eyes just get pulled into the detail of the dome with its rhythmic structure and curved shape that highly contrast with the blockiness of the rest of the buildings in the image. My eyes just get pulled there and they want to see more of the detail of that building but can't because the image is pretty much in the background.
PS. I noticed that the images got croped when I posted them, so to see what I'm talking about just click on them. ...I don't want to go through the hassle of resizing. :)
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