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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Ninety-two: Cruising the Inland Passage from Charleston to Jacksonville > City Hall, Savannah, Georgia, 2014
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26-NOV-2014

City Hall, Savannah, Georgia, 2014

Built over 100 years ago, Savannah’s handsome city hall still houses the city’s government. Its most celebrated feature is a dome, now covered in gold leaf. (A tour guide told me that the gilding is a relatively recent addition. She grew up in Savannah and remembers the dome when it was covered in its original dull green copper patina.) I photographed the dome at sunset to compare the gilded reflections to the golden numbers on the clock below. I boldly cropped out the dome’s Victorian cupola here to simplify the image, reduce the amount of empty sky in the frame, and stress the geometric rhythms of the buildings architecture.

FujiFilm X-T1
1/4000s f/22.0 at 216.9mm iso800 full exif

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Phil Douglis21-Feb-2015 18:43
Thanks for this question, MGB. I did two things in the camera that instantly created that emphasis on the geometric rhythms of the building's architecture you mention. First, I cropped the image in the viewfinder of the camera, not later. By removing the superfluous Victorian cupola that sits on top of the dome, I force the eye of the viewer to better appreciate the beauty of the geometric rhythms. Secondly, I used my spot-metering mode to stress the delicacy of the golden clock and the hammered-gold texture of the dome itself, as well as under -expose the blue sky to make it seem like velvet. To do this, I metered on the highlights, and thereby mute the color of the concrete and the sky.
Mary Green Brush 20-Feb-2015 21:42
I love how you have simplified this image to emphasize the exquisite lines and colors. Did you see what you were going to photograph in this way or discover it later when editing?
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