A few from a recent trip to Pyongyang this Summer.
The pre-dawn silence in the city is complete - not a single thing is moving - not a single lamp is on. It's not serene, but eerily inert and lifeless.
As the sun emerges, looking further up river to the North. Still no signs of life at all.
Incomprehensible density of tower blocks.
The North Koreans really seem to have a deep understanding of making housing as starkly impersonal as possible.
Traffic girl... and a propaganda poster showing a ballistic nuclear missile.
Now due to the nature of being under strict control of what I could photograph, many of the photos on the trip had to be taken out the windows of a vehicle, and there are some reflections and/or other artifacts that spoil things. Are there any ways (filters or something) to minimise these sort of artefacts at the time? I tried keeping the lens shaded as best I could (without alarming the officials), but is there anything that can be done post-production?
other photos that show what I mean about the refelctions can be seen in this album on my
picasaweb site (link).
Thanks for any feedback - esp re photographing out of closed vehicle windows.
Cheers,
Ty