All Layers of Eurovea
Ok, so almost all layers :). I don’t think you can see the ones underground :). Actually taking photos in a shopping centers is always fun :). I usually can count the seconds before a guard walks up to me and asks me to stop :). I think my record is in the Bullring in Birmingham, when it took about 10-15 seconds, after I took a shot and guard was standing next to me :)
Didn’t happed when I took this shot in Eurovea shopping center in Bratislava. This one was taken the first opening day. I had quite a lot of work with masking on this one, as there were a lot of moving people.
HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, handheld.
I really like the way you processed this image. It conveys such a warm feeling to me. I like to term this style of processing “illustrative” as it reminds me of the the beautiful draftsmanship and coloring of classic illustrated magazine covers in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.
I was run off the property of an outdoor shopping mall last night. I was standing on one side of a street on this property, photographing a business across the street (the building was replicating early to mid 20th century architecture, and they had a retro-looking neon light that had caught my eye). The security person told me I could take a personal photograph of my wife standing in front of the building, but that I was not permitted to take any pictures that did not have someone I knew in them.
You can’t call a policy like that as being about physical security, it is all about a commercial enterprise claiming the right to control use of their image, whether the image captured identifies the owning entity or not, no matter what the context of the image captured might be. I understand that a commercial enterprise has the right to protect its assets, but one of the primary assets of a shopping mall is the good will of the public who would might chose to do business there. It is ironic that the developers and management of these properties do everything they can think of to entice the public to visit their facility, and then run off a member of the public who is responsive to their efforts. Truly asinine.
That I have a little bit of luck with, that in Slovakia people are maybe not that paranoid. So here I never had the situation, that somebody came to me, to stop taking photos, when I was on the street or in front of some building.
In the shopping centers It happened, but they were always very polite and just asked me to stop because it was a private property. But you still can take photos, if you came, when there was some exhibition, and there were a lot of people taking photos :)
And in Slovakia I usually have photos of everything I wanted, before a guard came around, not like in UK :)