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Matt BlazeMidtown Manhattan.
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More pixels than anyone needs at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51893928686
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(Another image made with the amazing 50mm/4,0 Digaron-W).
Midcentury skyscraper architecture, as boring and repetitive as it was, inspired a lot of interesting midcentury art.
This image is mostly an abstract study of the horizontal and vertical lines and rectangles of midcentury modernist architecture, with diagonal shadows from older buildings looming at the bottom.
A few technical things: This image required very precise camera alignment, with the composition controlled by shift, as well as the use of a lens that was free of pincushion distortion. Shooting in IR enabled the nearly black sky and high contrast, which contributes to the abstract, unreal look.
Jacob TorreyI do love the higher contrast, feels more film noir.
Steve Williams
Karl Auerbach@mattblaze Yeah, international style with masses of boring glass and not an earth tone or surface in sight.
At least the glass curtain wall had a glorious start:
https://sf.curbed.com/2018/3/7/17073432/hallidie-building-glass-curtain-history-san-francisco
Not that modern stuff a la Gehry is any better than 1950-1980 stuff (except when it comes to not leaking water or not having emergency stairwells that one has to step across a void to reach.)
Gimme a Sullivan or Morgan building over the modern stuff.
PirateJoie@mattblaze and furnishings.
@mattblaze it’s beautiful.