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There are so many layers of post production on these photos I'd barely call them photographs any more. Especially the flares around the lights: no distortion even on the edges, all of them look uniform, even if they come from different light sources...

EDIT That said, kudos for the patience, it takes a long while to acquire the source material.

EDIT2 As art, it's good work. But this is not what I'd label photography.

EDIT3 img { display: block; max-height: 98vh; max-width: 100%; width:auto; height:auto; margin: 0 auto; } helps a lot to auto-size images for max height of the display.

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agree. its perfect. i finally smiled today while reading it

This happens with some lenses at long exposures. There's not much done to these outside of the odd comp, but mainly a 'HDR' style grading. Good stuff, and relatively simple. Just looks intense!

No, it does not happen like this. Happens with _some_ light source, from _some_ angles. Barely ever on the edge of the lens and never without distortion there.

OK mate. I've got and done photographs supporting what I just said. But I'll concede, whatever.

May I see some of those photos? I'm genuinely curious what lens is capable of night flares on the edge without distortion; the only one I can think of is the Nikkor 50mm 1.2, considering it was designed for this. The Pentax 85mm 1.8, which is my closest to that lens certainly can't do this feat but in the center - it does spectacular nightscapes though.

Yes you may. They're raw renders from an online archive from photographs 10 years ago, so lets leave the artistic judgements aside.

https://imgur.com/a/fAhJOVc

Uhm... this only verifies what I was saying: they are not uniform. There are deformations, differences among them, as it should be. The opening post had basically the exact same flaring and it was obviously post production.

I don't think the color grading is uniform. The left/right or top/down split of blue/red in some images seems implausible at the source.

They're not bad but essentially say little about the city and its inhabitants. Insight has been replaced by stereotype, real figures by mock superheroes, real context by staged drama: we don't even know if the repeat subject is Japanese. That said, there's some cute tricks with light and composition. The sort of thing you'd buy if you're a merchant of attention tangents.

Is there a name for this "orange and blue" style that I see pretty often? Is it replicating a type of film or just a style that's in vogue?

It comes from cinema where they use complementary color grading, but really it's just people discovering the split toning tool in Lightroom.

It's called "orange and teal". Search for "orange and teal" to find explanations on why the style is popular and tutorials on how to create the style in image and video editing applications.

It's called "orange and teal". Yes, it's everywhere in Hollywood big budget action movies.

https://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-h...

> As art, it's good work.

As art and photography I find this series of images weak and without direction. Lost me completely when the photographer or his friends (?) started showing up in the pictures ( https://main-designyoutrust.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upload... ). Typical Instagram buildering [1] shots.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buildering

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