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.
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Amy Dunn 52 months ago | reply
I see this thing everyday, and it has NEVER looked this beautiful! I had to fave this image. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
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my son works right there it looks cool from the top down
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ED HAZE 30 months ago | reply
Excellent shot
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Gijs Joost Brouwer 30 months ago | reply
Ha! I've seen that piece of art many times, but never considered walking behind it!
Great shot! I also agree with your 'perspective' on shooting wide-angle.
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CALTD 22 months ago | reply
Lots of tutorials out there about this.
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