And back to the regular programming…
The Puck Building in the NoLIta neighbourhood in New York City. The building housed the printing for Puck Magazine – named after Shakespeare’s ‘The Midsummer Night’s Dream’ character and which gave the building its now famous moniker…
The shutters were originally for fire protection – to stop fire jumping from building to building. However everyone seems to agree that they would have been useless at the task – they buckled and warped at relatively low temperatures.
The building in question for the fire-jumping is now a library just across a tiny street (more like an alleyway). There was also scaffolding all over the place, making it hard to get a decent angle on the wall of shutters on the Puck Building.
I spent a good chunk of an hour looking at different angles and the different combinations of open/shut/partially-open shutters, before settling on the image above. As part of the ‘Manhattan – A Closer Look‘ series, this image was taken with a tilt shift lens (the ts-e 45mm Canon lens) and the shallow band of focus was centred on the middle row of shutters.
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
1/320 sec at f/2.8
ISO 200
45mm (Tilt shift)
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