The Arts in NYC 2010

For Snapshot Day 2010, our seminar class had to take a picture of a neighborhood in basically any fashion we wanted to. Although I’m from Brooklyn, I chose to take a picture in Manhattan because I wanted to represent the grandeur and antiquity of New York City. We had a photographer, Barron Rachman, come to class to try and give us a quick tutorial on how to better frame our photographs. Here are some of the pictures I took:

They are all from basically the same perspective, but I ended up choosing the last one because I felt that overall it best encapsulated both the grandeur, in the huge skyline, and the antiquity, with the sepia effect and slanted perspective. I also felt that the geometry in this picture is great. Barron showed us a lot of great pictures that utilized straight lines, and I felt that the New York City skyline was a great way to utilize this effect.