Flatiron Peak

Peak, plow or bow of an ocean liner. All words which have been used to describe the Flatiron building in New York City…

The picture above was taken as part of a series of photos that I was making for a project called ‘Manhattan, A Closer Look‘. The series is taken with a tilt shift lens (mostly the ts-e 45mm Canon lens). This means that the area of focus can be narrowed down to a particular part of the photo. The series features some of the famous icons and landmarks in New York City.

I also tried to time the photo so that the sky was bright enough to blow it out (make it white). I purposefully over-exposed the photo to produce the stark background, but while also trying to keep the blue colour in the window reflections.

The tilt shift lens was tilted vertically, so that the front of the building was in focus, but the rest of the building was thrown out of focus.

The picture also kinda reminds me of a book: How to Avoid Huge Ships. Clearly a well thought-of book, as evidenced by someone in the comments. ‘To this day, I have never been run over by a single huge ship’.

Canon EOS-1D Mark III
1/1000 sec at f/2.8
ISO 200
45mm (Tilt shift)

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