• Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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    8 days ago

    Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One XT IQ4-150 camera. 12mm vertical shift to maintain geometry.

    This is a straightforward head-on single point perspective view of the facades of the varied buildings on this block just after sunrise. It took some time to line up the camera to be parallel to the faces of the buildings, once again making architectural photography be something of an exercise in surveying.

    • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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      8 days ago

      Union Square West between 16th and 17th Streets in Manhattan is home to five distinctive and variously historically significant narrow mid-rise buildings.

      The quirky Decker Building (2nd from left, at 33 Union Square West) is now chiefly residential with a retail ground floor storefront. From 1967-1973 the building housed Andy Warhol’s “Factory” studio, where, in 1968, he was famously and nearly fatally shot by an irate Valarie Solanas. The neighborhood was more colorful back then.

    • Chris Samuel@mastodon.acm.org
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      8 days ago

      @[email protected] that’s a great shot, and (for me at least) something of an optical illusion! To my brain it looks like the buildings are diverging towards the top (sort of like \ / but not that extreme, if you see what I mean) but looking at the photo closely I can see that’s not the case at all.