Across from Ground Zero

New York is a great place for walkin-around photography. I always suggest using a wide-angle lens to shoot buildings and architecture. Now, many people complain that it can distort lines and change the angles. This does not really bother me so much, because I think many people can take this wide-angle view in their mind and then re-calibrate everything to make sense. For example, that black building is obviously a square building with right angles, even though the top of it seems to have a 110 degree corner. Honestly, I don't think 95% of viewers even think about it. They just see the photo and it "feels good" to them. I often have professional photographers come comment on my wide-angle architecture shots when the walls are not 90 degrees perpendicular to other objects. My response is, I'm sure to them, quite childish, since I usually say, "Who cares?"

Besides, using a wide-angle lens is usually the only way to get the whole scene inside of a rectangle, which, itself, is an arbitrary viewing shape.

from my daily photo blog at www.stuckincustoms.com

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  1. claustral, No veo nada (Coke), dreaming in blues, mfrissen, and 354 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. SFMONA (62 months ago | reply)

    Looks like a spaceship

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  3. wottheduk (62 months ago | reply)

    I think I need to get myself a camera that shoots RAW just so I can do this HDR. For some reason it gives an image more clarity and greater depth. Good work.

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  4. model337 (62 months ago | reply)

    now That... is a BadAss Photo. you've got a great eye for those shapes and colors.

  5. Etienne_C (62 months ago | reply)

    Wow... gorgeous !

  6. claustral (62 months ago | reply)

    One of your best. The tone-mapping brings out the graphic elements powerfully.

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  7. No veo nada (Coke) (62 months ago | reply)

    congrats my friend....very cool work

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  8. John McDonald (62 months ago | reply)

    Whoa! That cant be for real?!

  9. Mark Turnbull (62 months ago | reply)

    Great POV and tonemapping, looks like the Borg have landed!

  10. Kuby! (62 months ago | reply)

    Very cool image Trey!

  11. Dead Air (62 months ago | reply)

    Fantastically composed shot. Great color as well!


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  12. carolOnline (62 months ago | reply)

    W O W! What a dramatic angle to capture this from and dynamic result.

  13. XiXiDu (62 months ago | reply)

    Like some alien artifact!

  14. pavelm (62 months ago | reply)

    Great image!

  15. Celali © (62 months ago | reply)

    mooooltooooo bellaaaaaa complimenti!!!

  16. moto_gp (62 months ago | reply)

    Amazing perstective and very reality tone mapping!Waiting your new photo every day!Sorry for my bad english!

  17. L’État c’est Moi (62 months ago | reply)

    Great shot and perspective. Your angles are prefect.

  18. calidoscopy (62 months ago | reply)

    Great shot!

  19. ChuckTofu (62 months ago | reply)

    Totally fabulous as usual

  20. MagdaBis (62 months ago | reply)

    nice HDR. great perspective

  21. Shervane [deleted] (62 months ago | reply)

    Excellent shot, faved, as usual. :-)

  22. Risback (62 months ago | reply)

    Great photo and HDR!
    You got excellent results in HDR

  23. NieckQ- [deleted] (62 months ago | reply)

    Great shot !

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  24. Rajiv Ashrafi (62 months ago | reply)

    Wow, amazing HDR! +fav

  25. Miguel Herrera (62 months ago | reply)

    Nice HDR!!!!
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  26. jayspost (62 months ago | reply)

    Excellent image, in such a poignant place, bravo !
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  27. indahs (62 months ago | reply)

    wow..just like a sci fi picture!!

  28. Lumase (62 months ago | reply)

    A masterpiece, Trey!

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    Awesome
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    SENSATIONAL !!!!

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  31. AnnaMarie777 [deleted] (62 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful shot my friend! Gorgeous!

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  32. !Shot by Scott! (62 months ago | reply)

    looks almos serreal.

  33. nevadafoto (62 months ago | reply)

    Great Capture

  34. thenout (62 months ago | reply)

    absolutely super stunning

  35. Kirpernicus (62 months ago | reply)

    Very cool.

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Eye Candy!, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

  36. neilalderney123 (62 months ago | reply)

    Nice one Trey! good shot.

  37. Dike Inside (62 months ago | reply)

    Amazing... This shot is evocative, and powerful... something really special

  38. Paul Hurst (62 months ago | reply)

    Great photograph of what is a very special place

  39. dobienet (62 months ago | reply)

    Totally storming shot!

  40. Starfires (62 months ago | reply)

    What an image- awesome!

  41. Whitesusie (62 months ago | reply)

    Brilliant, great detail, colour and perspective.

  42. Thomas Schultz (62 months ago | reply)

    Very cool! Wonderful image. Great capture and Treatment.

    Well done as usual.

  43. Thomas Kamann (62 months ago | reply)

    i love your pictures - wonderful work!

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  44. Christian Wilt (62 months ago | reply)

    great picture

  45. asmundur (62 months ago | reply)

    Cool geometry.

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