Silicon Valley One

 

Silicon Valley One

Electronic devices have facinated me for years, so it is with no suprise I have taken this shot. I used an old studio card out of a pc, cleaned it up and made it dust / fingerprint free and lit it quite harshly with a tungsten light. I underexposed by a good 4 stops and then desaturated the colour. I like dark pictures and I thought it would leave something a little more to the imagination for this shot. I like the moody shadows and harsh blacks and the sense of depth they bring. I have also embossed the edges and lines throughout the image to create a sense of future contrasting with the stark black and white of the picture along with the uniformity of the card. I tried several colours, but settled with an off white, it just looked better. I delibrately ignored the rules of photographic technique in framing the shot, as again the angle of the image contrasts with the uniform nature of the electronics, and creates a more eclectic shot. 

Only a hundred years ago our landscapes where teaming with tall chimneys and large mills, now they have nearly all gone, but looking into the technology seems to create a similar landscape, albeit in micro form. Love it or hate it seems to be the response to this shot from the people I have asked, nobody seems to sit on the fence for it.


Tech stuff, 0.3sec / f19 / ISO 800 / 82mm lens / tungsten light / CS4