Dockside Moiré
The corrugated surface of this building causes moiré to die for in the early morning light. I know it is some artifact of digital photography, but in the right circumstances it is really quite cool. I think this is one of those times.
Yesterday morning I went to Fol Epi bakery for a breakfast pastry, and a coffee. The bakery is in the Dockside Green development on the Gorge waterway in the Victoria harbour. The rising sunlight was terrific and I spent quite a lot of time photographing things down there. This was in the last set of brackets that I took. The lower image is processed to really emphasize the moiré.
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Canon EOS 5Dii, Nikkor-N Auto 24mm/f2.8 lens, ISO100, f-11, 1/200th +/- 2.0 E.V.
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burnt embers 
I love this building! Your treatment gives it a bit of a surreal feeling – I like it!
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Thanks Karen – I like the building too, so much better than many new buildings, not hurt by being a bit surreal either. ‘Surreal’ is a treatment option in Photomatix – I find it too far from natural so rarely use it and don’t think I did for any of these shots, Just naturally surreal (with help of the sensor).
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It is cool. That’s a great effect.
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Thanks! It would be more cool if you could see it without the assistance of a sensor!
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I have, on occasion, gone to great lengths to avoid getting moiré patterns, but I agree, it can be cool. Like this one.
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Thank you Ken!
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the b & w version seems to say that the builder should have continued with tin roofing end to end. perhaps put paint grip pannel besides wood at the ends as it looks better in one complete shade
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Hi arkansas – thanks for coming by and commenting. I too find these mixed building styles a bit disconcerting, though I think that this one works quite well. And eventually there will be a row of them, though how that will look I am not sure.
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The B&W version here looks really good. I still prefer the colour one, mind—it looks like you’ve used a polarising filter to get the sky that blue. I really like the effects you get on your photographs. I want AEB in my next camera. Does there exist any super-quick, convenient (I mean, almost-fully-automated) way to process HDR?
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Hi James – quite a few cameras now come with inbuilt HDR features. I have not experimented with any, but I should. My wife got a Canon G15 for Christmas which is an awfully nice camera though without interchangeable lenses. It has on board HDR. I will try to remember to take it out and take some brackets with it, and also some in built HDR shots and compare them on my blog. It would be interesting, and I would guess quite representative of all higher end Canons with this feature.
I did not use a polarising filter, but the sun was just coming up and some of the blue hour is in that sky. And probably some saturation from the HDR – the -2 EV brackets had a wonderfully blue sky. You will see that in my next post which compares various treatments from the same morning.
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Hi James – I did a test on the G15’s in camera HDR – see it here http://wp.me/p1R4lY-4c9. I don’t think it is what you are after, but reading about some of the high end cameras with HDR, some of them may well do what you want, for a price….
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Wow, I hadn’t heard of this before, but now that you bring this up I totally get it. Isn’t that interesting; you’re right, it does add an interesting dimension to the shapes and lighting in the shot!
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I became aware of it with video where it can be immensely distracting. But I really like it a lot in these circumstances. It may be a “defect” of the sensor, but since it is what the sensor does, or can do, then it might as well be exploited when that works as well.
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The black and white definitely makes the moire effect more pronounced, but they are both beautiful photographs albeit each one with its own mood. Coming upon your top photograph I recognized the building at once without being able to place it until reading your description. Initially the colored version was my pick. However that is no longer the case as the b/w version brings out the architectural so nicely with its own dramatic tones. As the saying goes 5 out of 5 stars for both of them.
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Thanks so much Joseph. The lighting was fabulous, a 5 out of 5, which makes the photography a great deal easier. I quite like what they are doing on what was waste land for so long. It will be interesting to see if holds together when there is a lot more of it, or if it no longer works so well.
One of our friends was commenting that the lower road from which this photo was taken so far has no retail or other local community making features – the only thing at road level are sidewalks, bike paths and parking lots. The entrances to stores such as Fol Epi are about one story higher up stairs or ramps. The land a bit to the south is flatter and broader so maybe this will be corrected.
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These are both very nice. I even like the color version! You should give the architect prints of these, as they showcase the building so nicely. Wait. Did I say “give”? I think I meant “sell”!
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The only problem with the photos is that the end part of the building was reflecting such strong sunlight that it looks blotchy.
But thanks, maybe they would like to buy one. I would be up for that. I quite like the building, especially in this light.
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Does it have good lighting at night? I really like nighttime architectural photography.
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Now about that I am not sure, I don’t go there at night – it used to be a part of
timetown best avoided.There is an angle where you can get it reflecting in the water, which could be nice at night. I expect I will post a reflection shot or two in the coming days.
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