Melbourne is well known for the quality, variety and sheer beauty of its Street Art.
I knew that Meeting of Styles had been in Melbourne recently, the first time in Australia, and I was keen to see the event's results. Unfortunately, there isn't much information on the artwork and site locations, so instead, I found myself wandering around Collingwood, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne.
What a fantastic location to experience some of Melbourne's Street Art; one of the first was a tiny lane that led to a row of garages containing some beautiful work by Hiroyasu Tsuri (aka TWOONE), pronounced. 2 - 1
I took some iPhone shots so I could remember the location by using the GPS and decided to come back early the next morning to shoot it at 5:30 am, just before sunrise.
The artwork extends the length of the laneway and is impossible to capture in a single panorama. So, I decided to break it down based on the three characters in the work.
I don’t know the name of the work, so I’ve given names to each character: Crouching Dog, Sitting Beast and White Wolf.
At the far end of the laneway, Crouching Dog was beautifully lit by a single light. Sitting Beast is in a dark area between lit only by the light at the end of the laneway and the street light at the other end. White Wolf is similar to Crouching Dog, with a single light providing illumination.
Using my LED headlamp during the long exposure, I washed the wall with light. Reviewing the images in Lightroom, I was amazed at the details in the painting. I had to use a long exposure to compensate for the low light and captured the fantastic streaky-coloured sky.
Note: use the previous/next buttons to move along the laneway. Click on the button below to view in a new window
Equipment: Canon 6D, Canon 8-15mm Zoom Lens at 15mm, 30sc at f8.0, Nodal Ninja NN5 edited in Adobe Lightroom, stitched in PTGui and published in Pano2VR
"Hiroyasu Tsuri aka TWOONE was born in Yokohama, Japan. At age of 18 he moved to Melbourne, Australia. He is currently living and working in Melbourne. Drawing and crafting have been a part of his life for as long as he can remember. He gained an early interest in art though skate board graphics and graffiti culture.
As soon as Hiroyasu moved to Melbourne, he started showing his works on the street, and inside galleries.
In 2008 he had hand painted one thousand individual spray cans, and had his first solo exhibition “One Thousand Can Show”.
Since then He has been creating large number of works in field of painting, murals, sculpture, installation and live performances."
Reference: I Support Street Art