Day to night at Lomonosov Moscow State University
by Alexey Kljatov
Title
Day to night at Lomonosov Moscow State University
Artist
Alexey Kljatov
Medium
Photograph - Hdr Photograph
Description
This picture created with digital blending of two HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos of same location, taken from same point, at day and night. After aligning two already processed photos, i've blend them with manually painted mask, with wide transition zone at sky and water and narrow - at ground part. After that, i've done numerous small adjustments of lights from night part, which are visible at day part, too.
This place is Lomonosov Moscow state university (or MSU). This university is the biggest and most famous in Russia.
I like this place. The building itself is one of Stalin towers, or Seven sisters, built in various locations of Moscow. All seven buildings have slightly different, but similar architecture.
The main building have beautiful night illumination, while all territory illuminated with standard yellow lamps, which is not good for photographers, because this light is too uniform and looks boring at night photos.
University and its surroundings (quite large territory) reminds "city within a city", though it have no walls, and anyone can walk here without any restrictions. This territory have gardens, walk ways, pools, and even streets with bus stations, though all traffic have strict speed limit.
Wikipedia says:
"The MSU main building was the tallest building in the world outside of New York City at the time of its construction, and remained the tallest building in Europe until 1990. The central tower is 240 m tall, 36 stories high, and flanked by four huge wings of student and faculty accommodations. It is said to contain a total of 33 kilometers of corridors and 5,000 rooms.
Facilities available inside the building include a concert hall, a theater, a museum, administrative services, a library, a swimming pool, a police station, a post office, a laundry, a hairdresser's salon, several canteens, bank offices and ATMs, shops, cafeterias, a bomb shelter, etc. The star on the top of the tower is large enough to include a small room and a viewing platform; it weighs 12 tons. The building's facades are ornamented with giant clocks, barometers, thermometers, statues, carved wheat sheaves, and Soviet crests."
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May 31st, 2016
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Comments (5)
Jeannie Rhode Photography
Alexey, Another excellent capture with nice composition, lighting, colors and clarity, well done.
Jenny Rainbow
Congratulations on being featured at the home page of the group Russian Art on Fine Art America!
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your creative and unique art work is featured in the "Out Of The Ordinary 1 A Day" group! 6/4/16