Grand Central Terminal (with Chrysler Building Photobombing), NYC, 2017.
All the pixels, but without an Apple Store, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/31933507513
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Unfortunately the Chrysler building views are being ruined and overshadowed by a number of new ugly buildings. It's a horrible travesty but so common in NYC history. They tore down a building directly to the west and for a moment you could get an unobstructed view from that angle.
@mattblaze loooooooooove that angle ―and am now thinking of where you parked your ass to get that angle.
Captured with a DSLR and a 19mm shift lens (vertically shifted about 5mm).
Had to dodge some traffic to set up here, but found a protected traffic barrier to be behind with the tripod.
These are two of my favorite buildings in NYC.
This shifted the 19mm Nikkor lens to its limits. Unfortunately this was before I got the Phase One system, which would have allowed a more formally structured and geometrically accurate composition.
If I were going to re-shoot this today, I'd use the Rodenstock 32mm to make two vertically shifted captures and stitch them. This can yield roughly the angle of view of a 16mm lens in 35mm format terms, with excellent edge sharpness and very low geometric distortion.
But this place is no longer safely accessible. It was reached via a side door in the now-shuttered Hyatt, and then carefully crossing the roadway; today you'd have to walk two blocks in traffic behind a blind curve to get there.
I got the P1 system less than a year later, and the first thing I wanted to do was re-shoot this. But by then it was too late; no longer accessible.
So, this is yet another example where the camera and lens one has being the best tool for the job, by definition.
@mattblaze My motto; "Do the best you can with what you've got to work with."
