The bridge is the Manhattan Bridge. The skyscraper framed by the archway is the Empire State Building. Taken looking down my street in Brooklyn in the Dumbo neighborhood. This view must be in every guide book for tourists - at any given moment there is some group of tourists impeding traffic.
Well-framed. Neat juxtaposition.
I generally like the processing, but you might dial back some of the sketched/sharpened effect on the buildings framing the center. Seems a bit busy, to my eye.
Scott
Mar 05, 2012 at 02:46 PM
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Like many westerners who have visited NYC, I have a love/hate feeling toward it. One of the love aspects is that you must have thousands of great possibilities for dramatic city-views. This is certainly one of them, and with the lovely arch in the middle of the Erector Set bridge support- and the Empire State Building perfectly framed by it- I'd say you have an excellent assortments of good features working here.
Very nicely done all 'round.
Charlie
Scott: good point, especially the fire escape. Some of this is jpeg crushing, but I'll play around with the foreground sharpness. Maybe also tone down the cross-hatching on the long vertical elements on the bridge as well, now that I look at it.
Charlie: I moved here last year after 30 years in California. I miss the high desert and large parts of the Pacific coast, but this is an incredibly vibrant place and a nice change in lifestyle. For now, anyway.
Dougo wrote:
A neat view, well framed, not sure if it is me or not but does it lean to the right a bit.
Cheers Ray
Thanks Ray. The vertical orientation is aligned using the skyscraper in the archway. Everything in this 19th century industrial neighborhood on the banks of a huge estuary (the East River) is sagging to one direction or another.
