Under Construction

While going through my collection of pictures in updating/revamping my photoblog here, I came across an image of a construction worker that I took at the Singapore Management University construction site at Bras Basah Road in March earlier this year. The original image had a the worker placed against a bland, white sky. In tribute to the diazochrome technique that my father pioneered earlier in his photographic career, I have turned the background to a deep, saturated blue in similar style, albeit made much easier with the use of Photoshop now. I like the cacophony of colours created between the contrast of the deep blue, versus the orange, fiery colours of the beams, scaffolding as well as the helmet of the worker. The expression on the worker’s face provided a touch of human interest to the shot.