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I never saw Moscow as empty as last week...

the weather overcast, I didn´t see the sun at all.

The red square was just filled with a place for ice skating.... nobody there too.

One of the most famous shopping in the world - GUM - only a few tourists as well.

thanks a lot for watching!







 
Why the scarcity of people, why the gloom? Economic conditions? Time of day? I hope this is not an omen of things to come...
 
I only can tell you my personal impression,

it was a combination of - the weather which was grey and overcast the whole week, no sun - quite normal, but I never saw Moscow so empty like this time, in shopping areas or big places like the red square. Everybody is talking about the crisis and it hit Russia as well, especially because their economy is still depends a lot on natural resources like Gas and Oil, well this market recently collapsed. 70% of the food is imported, hard to understand for me as an foreigner. Those food prices rose big time, the ruble got de-valued.

So for me its not an Omen but I noticed it so strong, I really felt the difference. Its like the party is over the day after....

hope it helps to understand my title a bit more..
jafleming3 said:
Why the scarcity of people, why the gloom? Economic conditions?
Time of day? I hope this is not an omen of things to come...
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Colors there are vivid, and look at the wood on those double doors. I would try to crop to that, getting close to vivid colors and the wood to take advantage of what flat light is good for.

Another thing that you can see happening in your photos is those things that do show up, vivid colors, contrasting with hazy looking architectural backgrounds. That contrast could work for your compositions.

Usually a tree or window or door or other architectural or natural frame, a bridge for instance, will be available to define your corners when the sky is just white.
 
Hi,

thanks a lot for the ideas and taking the time to comment - its difficult - at least for me - to get a small sensor camera flying under this circumstances.

I noticed that vivid foregrounds which show up like you mentioned - but I had to push them in saturation a little for making them more vivid. Not for everyone´s taste though.

I will for sure try your framing tip asap
OnlyRealPixel said:
Colors there are vivid, and look at the wood on those double doors. I
would try to crop to that, getting close to vivid colors and the wood
to take advantage of what flat light is good for.

Another thing that you can see happening in your photos is those
things that do show up, vivid colors, contrasting with hazy looking
architectural backgrounds. That contrast could work for your
compositions.

Usually a tree or window or door or other architectural or natural
frame, a bridge for instance, will be available to define your
corners when the sky is just white.
Click to expand...
 
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