#project365 [day 49] Brooklyn Museum
This is the third largest museum in New York, at least in physical size, holding an art collection of roughly 1.5 million works of art. Founded in 1895 near the Prospect Heights neighbourhood in the borough of Brooklyn. The building designed by McKim, Mead and White it was planned to be the largest art museum in the world, the initial design was four times as large as the actual size, compromised by the specifications of the New York City government. The museum struggled to maintain its building and collection, until it was revitalised in the late 20th century.
The day was turning grey, after some respite while we were at the Brooklyn Bridge Park, with lots of menacing clouds over us (it would eventually rain). This made for a very flat light, which allowed me to capture the facade with lots of detail in the shadows, and added some drama to the sky. To be able to capture the whole front of the building, which is very wide, I decided to go with stitching 3 photos together and then cropping to a panorama.
-- Gear
Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR
-- Post
Lightroom : Crop, tone and vignette
Photoshop: Panorama stitching, sharpening and clean up
NikCollection Color Efex Pro 4: Toning and Detail extraction