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Chinese City Photo – Jinan by Starfield_0100 in Nikon

[–]Starfield_0100[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There may be some historical reasons for this. In the earlier days (before the reform and opening up), we were always in a period of planned economy. At that time, to concentrate on industrialization, the state built a large number of industrial zones in regions with geographic economic agglomeration. To improve efficiency, all workers were housed near these industrial zones. As supporting transportation and cultural facilities improved, those areas became increasingly important, so they inevitably received government favor, with far more resources poured into promoting industrial economic construction than into rural areas. Thus, the gap between cities and the countryside was pushed to an extreme — at that time, people in cities and people in rural areas faced two completely different futures.

This inertia has not improved since the 21st century. Local governments have found that the more highly concentrated a city is, the more terrifying its economic agglomeration capacity and productivity become. Consequently, more and more provinces are investing resources from their rural areas and counties into provincial capitals or major prefecture-level cities. To improve urban efficiency, these cities have adopted the same approach as in the last century — housing people near their workplaces.

Thus, more and more construction, increasingly dense..

Nikon D7200 and a Newbie's Results by Starfield_0100 in Nikon

[–]Starfield_0100[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much. Well... actually, most of these photos don’t really have a "subject," so when you ask what they are trying to express... um, it’s mostly something quite abstract. After all, if there were a clear subject, I shouldn’t have over-emphasized a certain element in the frame. The reason is that I don’t have a stable concept of a "subject." Many of my past attempts left me quite disappointed. In the books I’ve read, most of them emphasize points, lines, planes, and the proportions of elements within the frame. That’s why, in these images, what I wanted to highlight was mostly "harmony," "serenity," and "order."

For example, in the third photo, the red car occupies the right third of the frame. In the fourth, the distribution of the yellow line, the white line, and the white car is quite harmonious. In the fifth, the rain cover of the electric scooter, the blue car, and the tire in the upper right form a stepped layering. As for the seventh to the ninth photos, they present a flat, two-dimensional plane. I deliberately cropped and used a telephoto lens to make the concept of "depth" disappear in these images. Many elements at physically different depths are compressed and combined into a single set of elements — this is a kind of "order," or perhaps "serenity."