Starting off the Year 1 of my #project365 with the dailies from my trip through Scotland. First stop the beautiful Edinburgh, and the art-deco/brutalist building of the Scottish Government.
at the doors of the Scottish Government
-- Gear
Fujifilm X-T1
FUJINON XF18-135mm F3.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR
-- Post
Lightroom : Initial toning and levels
Nik's Silver Efex Pro : B&W conversion
NewYork_20150323_137
Walking from Midtown Manhattan to Chinatown feels like moving from Metropolis to a small city, if that small city was located in China. The huge skyscrapers start to become less ubiquitous and slowly give way completely to streets full of 5 stories buildings. The grand avenues transform themselves into narrow streets, and the storefronts go from the franchise clones to a colorfully chaotic mash of exotic produce and homewares. The city also loses a layer of veneer and becomes more gritty, this also changes the way I approach documenting and lends to a harsher black and white tone on this street scene.
-- Gear
Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR
-- Post
Lightroom : Initial tone, final crop and vignette
Photoshop: Minor clean up and sharpening.
NikCollection Silver Efex Pro 4: Toning, detail extraction and black & white conversion
NewYork_20150327_026
Walking through Midtown Manhattan, where the streets are littered with skyscrapers, it pays to keep looking up. That is how I discovered this building which has 6 sculptures of medieval dressed men, seated with their ankles crossed. With it's lovely facade, the Lewisohn Building, completed in 1913 is a fine example of early 20th century skyscraper. You can read more about it at Daytonian in Manhattan.
These statues are located about 3 stories up from ground level, and the 40th street is a rather narrow road, which makes photographing them not a trivial matter. I had a group shot, of all six, and a few individual shots. Ended up deciding that the best way to show it was to pick the best statues, and after correct the perspective create a square format composit image.
-- Gear
Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR
-- Post
Lightroom : Initial tone and vignette
Photoshop: Perspective correction, final image compositing and clean up.
NikCollection Color Efex Pro 4: Toning and Detail extraction