

Stylized as '>Observer', the game was first teased during E3 during the 2016 PC Gaming Show. Images and content copyright Ming Thein | 2012 onwards unless otherwise stated. What is Observer Observer is a new game from Bloober Team, the developers of Layers of Fear. We are also on Facebook and there is a curated reader Flickr pool. Visit the Teaching Store to up your photographic game – including workshop videos, and the individual Email School of Photography. You can also support the site by purchasing from B&H and Amazon – thanks! Ultraprints from this series are available on request here Shot over a period of time with a Nikon Z7, Olympus Pen F and various lenses images are SOOC JPEG using my Nikon Z7 picture control pack, or specific Pen F settings.

This is probably not helped by the predominantly low key tonal palette I’ve always liked that possibility of ambiguity and mystery suggested by it (regular readers will probably notice a distinct lack of high key monochrome here) – eyes you can’t see tend to mask the thoughts of the individual. Missing is that feeling of intense focus implied by observation rather there’s just a sort of blank mechanised obliviousness. Actually, on second curation – I can’t help but see can alternative interpretation in a lot of situations. In a strange way I feel this coldness of mood works quite well for the given subject matter and creative intent on top of that, color would have inevitably suggested moods or emotions that are neither appropriate nor sufficiently sangfroid. Actually, I feel about as detached from these images as the subjects feel detached from their surroundings. Alternative title: observing people observing the world.
