445 Tenth Avenue, NYC, 2024.
Too many pixels in too little space at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53997928594
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Captured with the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens (@ f/8), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50, 1/30 sec), vertically shifted 15mm.
The Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 has a floating internal element that has to move as it’s focused. It has to be focused with a helical ring (like an SLR lens) that moves the focus and the internal element together, rather than simply by moving it back and forth with a bellows. This makes the lens big, heavy, and cumbersome (not to mention spendy), but it’s very sharp.
The glass curtain and distorted reflection of midtown reminded me of Saul Bass’s iconic title sequence for North By Northwest (imitated in Mad Men), though this is across town. Hitchcock’s film also employed a somewhat different perspective, looking downward, and at a sharper angle. Here, our focus is on the impressionistically rendered Times Square skyline rather than the street below.
@mattblaze@federate.social The distorted reflection is a really cool effect!
