墨爾本攝影師Ben Thomas用移軸攝影把城市變成了色彩繽紛的玩具

本·托馬斯鏡頭下的城市風景具有非同一般的平面紋理和色調，這些照片總是給人一種超現實的感覺，但千萬可不要被攝影師愚弄，這些都是照片而不是插畫。

托馬斯拍照喜歡玩弄感覺。在紐約和倫敦這樣的繁華城市，他穿梭其間，並配備了一個移軸鏡頭隨時拍照。這是對城市街拍的一種顛覆，他一直在探討極端色彩對照片的影響。 「我想把這些城市打散到最基本的顏色和形狀，這是一種模擬插圖和平面的美學，」托馬斯說。

這名來自墨爾本的攝影師正在為這個項目徘徊世界，到目前為止訪問了澳大利亞，中國，英國，法國和義大利。他用佳能5D Mark III和幾個鏡頭拍攝。落入一個新的城市是一個壓倒性的，所以托馬斯經常花時間巡遊谷歌街景，然後才到達一個更好的想法他想拍攝什麼。有時候，他只是在沒有計劃的情況下出發。

然而每當到達一個新的城市時，托馬斯試圖捕獲獨特的建築與反映一個城市的個性的簡約的功能。 「香港和上海只是令人難以置信，高密度和建築相對現代化的城市，而巴黎和倫敦有一個引人注目和有趣的新老混合，」他說。

托馬斯通常在明亮，陽光明媚的日子拍攝，這樣他的照片就營造了一種平面感，有時這樣反而更能讓人體會到照片中的味道。他使用Lightroom和Photoshop儘可能減少陰影，然後調整色彩平衡和動態範圍，創造一個霓虹般的色調。這個過程比它聽起來更棘手，花了一年的試驗，以獲得強烈的顏色和深度的正確組合。

雖然他拍攝的是世界各地的城市，但這些地方都通過類似的顏色處理變為一個整體。每個繁華的大都市凝聚著色彩和形式，使其功能得到更充分的讚賞。 「我認為我們住的城市和地方有時會顯得過於複雜和有點令人生畏，」他說。 「我想展示當你開始將這些複雜的場景分解為最簡單的元素時，存在的固有美感。

The flat textures and aqua-hued tones of Ben Thomas』 urban landscapes wouldn』t look out of place in a graphic novel, but don』t be fooled, these are photographs, not illustrations.

Thomas loves to play with perception. He』s miniaturized bustling cities like New York and London with a tilt-shift lens for Cityshrinker and turned cities upside down and inside out for Accession. In Chroma, he explores the effect of extreme color. 「I wanted to break these cities down to their most basic colors and shapes, an aesthetic that is illustrative and flat,」 Thomas says.

The Melbourne photographer is wandering the world for the project, and so far has visited Australia, China, the UK, France and Italy. He shoots with a Canon 5D Mark III and a few choice lenses. Dropping into a new city an be overwhelming, so Thomas often spends time cruising Google street view before arriving to get a better idea of what he wants to shoot. Sometimes, though, he simply sets off with no plan in mind.

However he starts, Thomas tries to capture distinctive architecture with minimalistic features that reflect a city』s personality. 「Hong Kong and Shanghai are just incredible, highly dense and architecturally relatively modern cities, while Paris and London have a striking and interesting mix of new and old,」 he says.

Thomas typically shoots on bright, sunny days to give his photos a flat, even feel to his photos. He uses Lightroom and Photoshop to decrease the shadows as much as possible, then plays with color balance and vibrancy to create an almost neon hue. The process, which is trickier than it sounds, took a year of experimenting to get the right combination of intense color and depth.

Though located all over the world, the cities are united by the color treatment. Each bustling metropolis is condensed to color and form, allowing its features to be more fully appreciated. 「I think the cities and places we live in can sometimes present as overly complex and somewhat daunting,」 he says. 「I want to show the inherent beauty that exists when you start breaking down these intricate scenes to their most simple components.」

Ben Thomas給它加點兒甜

用濾鏡與後期給城市裹一層糖衣

Prep

Paris, 2016

它們變成了明亮透著甜味的糖果都市。

A7

Melbourne, 2016

Tokyo 123

Tokyo

Ben Thomas出生於阿德萊德，現居墨爾本，他不僅是攝影師也是一位出色的視覺藝術家，對我們生活的城市空間環境非常關注。這組名為Chroma的作品，為觀者提供另一種查看日常景觀的方式，體驗城市生活。

Receiving

Melbourne, 2015

Duotone

Sydney, 2015

Choose Your Weapon

Florence, 2015

Youth

Florence, 2015

Asher Beach

Viareggio, 2015

Chroma的「糖果色」需要避免大光比、大色彩的攝影素材反差，然後利用低對比度色調處理後形成。Ben 進一步解構城市與城市景觀的建築風格，用鮮亮色調描述各國標誌性建築和街道，城市重複的基礎模式結構以高超後期技術和高飽和度色調突顯，不拘一格的創新讓人眼前一亮：

Version 2

Paris, 2015

Set

Paris, 2015

Searching For Something That s Not Real

Paris, 2015

SCV-70

Tokyo

Bundball

Shanghai, 2015

上海巴黎東京柏林悉尼倫敦佛羅倫薩... 大都市在色彩渲染下鋪上一層夢幻感，現實和抽象界限被甜蜜色彩模糊，現代都市變成Wes Anderson式的童話王國。

Defense

Paris, 2015

Eagle

Paris, 2015

Dive In

Viareggio, 2015

Elements

Hong Kong, 2015

BL

Hong Kong, 2015

A Touch of Pink

Melbourne, 2016

Tarallab

Melbourne, 2015

DN

Melbourne, 2015

Way Out

Melbourne, 2015

Tones

New York, 2016

Ills

New York, 2016

Time

New York, 2016

The Right Side

New York, 2016

Flatiron

New York, 2016

Nathan s

Coney Island, 2016

L2

Coney Island, 2016

You Hit Me Like A Thunderbolt

Coney Island, 2016

Wonder Wheel

Coney Island, 2016

Happy Double

Melbourne, 2016

Tip

London, 2016

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