More photos from wandering around the Pudong area of Shanghai.  While in Paris people photograph the Eiffel Tower.  In Shanghai you photograph the TV Tower.  It’s a huge sci-fi looking tower that appears like it was planted here by aliens.  I like to photograph architecture in black and white because it reminds me of the opening sequence of Woody Allen’s movie “Manhattan” – complete with Gershwin music.

I went up to the observation tower of the Jinmao Tower and grabbed some high altitude photos of Shanghai.  Then I visited the “Super Brands Mall”, which is the biggest mall in Shanghai (30th largest in the world).  I had lunch there and then planned to see a movie.  I had hoped to see Batman in a country that has outlawed all lethal weapons, but it wasn’t playing here yet.

I also checked out the Apple flagship store in Shanghai.  It was my second visit to an Apple store in Shanghai – and no – I’m not an Apple fanboy.

I’ve taken a total of 2,857 photos on this 3 week trip.  About the same as my trip to Tibet, but that was only 1 week long.  For the photo-geeks, this is some technical data about the Shanghai series (I & II):

– All of these were shot in RAW format and under-exposed about 2 stops so the sky and clouds didn’t get blown-out.  The images were then processed in Adobe Camera RAW and the dark areas were recovered.

– I used a full manual 8mm fisheye lens to capture some ultra-wide angle views both outdoors and indoors.  During processing I use the Lens Correction filter in Photoshop to remove some (but not all) of the fisheye distortion.

– Most photos were shot at ISO 100 (low noise) so I could compose the image twice – once in the camera and another time on the computer.  For the street photos (and my sneaky Apple Store photos) I was literally “shooting from the hip”, not even framing the shot through the viewfinder.  I just pointed the camera and pressed the shutter release when I walked by an interesting composition.  After reviewing the images in Lightroom I would crop the composition I liked.