Devoid Of Life
Washington Street with view of the Manhattan Bridge. DUMBO, Brooklyn.
New York City, September 2013.
As some of you already know by now, I’m a big fan of creating cinematic impressions. For 3 weeks I’ve been working on this image.
It all starts with an idea. Pre-visualize the final image.
My goal this time was to recreate the cinematic atmosphere from the movie “I am Legend”. Meaning: a deserted street, overgrown with weeds, deprived from human life for a long time.
For the process, as always, I began with the original black & white version (visible on my Flickr page, see below). I took this one, the famous Washington Street in Brooklyn, in 2013 on an early Sunday morning with no cars parked in the street.
It took me some time to find out what could possibly work and what not. First of all: the colors. And then came the most difficult part of the undertaking: vegetation, weeds, trees etc.
Due to the fact that I wanted the rest of the image to have the same appearance, I digitally ‘destroyed’ several items in this image (find out yourself).
Thanks to Photoshop there are no limitations on creativity ;-)
Hope you like it too!
The original one:
www.flickr.com/photos/nico_geerlings/14852691276/
All of my photographs are under copyright ©. None of these photographs may be reproduced and/or used in any way without my permission.
© NGimages / Nico Geerlings Photography
Devoid Of Life
Washington Street with view of the Manhattan Bridge. DUMBO, Brooklyn.
New York City, September 2013.
As some of you already know by now, I’m a big fan of creating cinematic impressions. For 3 weeks I’ve been working on this image.
It all starts with an idea. Pre-visualize the final image.
My goal this time was to recreate the cinematic atmosphere from the movie “I am Legend”. Meaning: a deserted street, overgrown with weeds, deprived from human life for a long time.
For the process, as always, I began with the original black & white version (visible on my Flickr page, see below). I took this one, the famous Washington Street in Brooklyn, in 2013 on an early Sunday morning with no cars parked in the street.
It took me some time to find out what could possibly work and what not. First of all: the colors. And then came the most difficult part of the undertaking: vegetation, weeds, trees etc.
Due to the fact that I wanted the rest of the image to have the same appearance, I digitally ‘destroyed’ several items in this image (find out yourself).
Thanks to Photoshop there are no limitations on creativity ;-)
Hope you like it too!
The original one:
www.flickr.com/photos/nico_geerlings/14852691276/
All of my photographs are under copyright ©. None of these photographs may be reproduced and/or used in any way without my permission.
© NGimages / Nico Geerlings Photography