Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, PA, 2017.
All the pixels, none of the ink on your hands, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32309131520
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@[email protected] Gorgeous!
@[email protected] wow, that’s beautiful. The crisp lines make me think of one of my favorite artists.
Amazing work.
@[email protected] Thank you!
This was captured with a DSLR and a 19mm shifting lens. There’s a bit of barrel distortion from the lens, but I decided this image looked better uncorrected.
The Inquirer building, completed in 1924, to me evokes a cigar-chomping editor who calls everyone “kid” and who says things like “bring me back a scoop”.
The building had been vacant for a few years when this photo was made, the paper having moved to cheaper and leaner facilities. It has since been repurposed as police headquarters.
The Inquirer building also housed (until a few years before they moved) their printing plant, making it one of the last major dailies where it was at least theoretically possible for an editor to run downstairs and yell “stop the presses!” if a major story came in. But I’ll bet that didn’t actually happen very often.
This photo really pushes the limits of what you can do with 35mm format lenses, but I leaned in to the limitations and it worked out OK. I ended up switching to the Phase One system a few months later, which is much more flexible when you need view camera movements.
