The Citicorp building is one of the most recognizable shapes in the New York skyline, it's the building that has the top chopped off at an angle. But what always strikes me when I see it from the ground, rather than the Queensboro bridge, is the height of the stanchions at the base. So I took an image. The 90mm on my Wisner didn't quite cut it because it was limited by the bellows when using movements I needed. So the film was scanned and I cheated ever so slightly, by correcting the remaining perspective in Lightroom after scanning.
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This image of the gantry and condos in Long Island City is one of my new favorites. Gantry State Park has these structures standing still from the bygone era when trains would come from Long Island or other places, and the freight boxes would be put onto ships and the journey would continue in Manhattan. Some tracks are remaining, but most have been removed, and the gantries still stand as part of the charm of this place. Anyone who has been here also knows the famous Pepsi Cola sign that is a half-mile down the riverfront, which was recently declared an historic monument, the first in NYC that is not a building.
This is the first image where I dared to use the tilt/shifts of the camera to purposely blur out areas of the image so that I could use it to my advantage. I'm really happy with the results.
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Both images on T-Max 100, developed at LTI Lightside lab in NYC, and scanned on an old Epson 2450 using VueScan. Enhanced digitally in Lightroom 5 to bring out the vision that I had when taking the images.
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