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celebrating Sarah's 26th birthday party on a rooftop in Bushwick
Update: photo used to illustrate a recap of the #rooftopbreakup story on Twitter www.thealbatross.ca/27469/rachel-getting-harried
Used in this guide as an example of rooftop party in NYC www.6sqft.com/the-best-things-to-do-this-memorial-day-wee...
PRO234 - Brett Weston
The Back Bay neighborhood of Boston MA and the Charles River, 2012.
A recent shot in an attempt to emulate the work of Brett Weston, particularly one from his San Francisco series shown here: www.artnet.com/usernet/awc/awc_workdetail.asp?aid=4259329...
Here are some other resources, thanks to the Photography Critique - Assignments group here on Flickr!
www.artnet.com/awc/brett-weston.html
www.photographywest.com/pages/weston_bio.html
I've always found Boston and San Francisco to be quite similar, architecturally speaking....so I hoped that my recent Boston trip would provide an opportunity to come up with a Weston-Inspired image for this assignment.....particularly his SF series.
This shot was through the window atop the Prudential building looking over the Back Bay neighborhood, to the Charles River and beyond.
Being in Autumn, the colors were beautiful -- and I normally would have processed in color (see another one of my images here: www.flickr.com/photos/dtloprinzi/8208683048/in/set-721576...)....but in the spirit of emulation, followed the high contrast, bright whites and black blacks style which seems to be the dominant feature in his work "Rooftops and Bay, 1938."
Exif: 1/125 | Æ’/8 | ISO 100 | 17 mm
Processing:
--Lightroom 4.2 for basic color balance -->
--Photoshop CS5 to convert to Lab Color and make colors more vibrant -->
--Perfect B/W (OnOne) --> b/w conversion with adjustments to color channels, contrast, structure, black and white points -->
--Sharpener Pro 3.0 -->
--DFine 2.0 (Noise Reduction)
*It's possible I took the long way....it was a work in progress trying to end up with the same feel as the artist!
I particularly love Weston's use of black to frame out the white image area that he was trying to highlight.....or vice-versa in other images. I'm so trained to NOT allow the histogram to bottom out, but I goes to show that rules are meant to be broken.
No matter whether you are feeling good or feeling bad. Your angels will be by your side in happy times or sad.
From the roof of my hotel in Sydney a few weeks back.
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: 10-22mm
30 Seconds
F/9
ISO 200
stitched panoramic shot of Dallas taken from the rooftop of the NYLO hotel in the Cedars District of Dallas