Photo of the Day: Empire State Building

Posted 15 December, 2008 at 9:30am by Michael Chu

(Filed under: Photography)

4 comments to Photo of the Day: Empire State Building

scott, December 16th, 2008 at 8:39 pm:

• That's a stunning shot. I love how it almost looks like it's so monochromatic it almost looks b&w or sepia-toned. With the haze, it almost looks like a watercolor.

  Was this shot vertically, or horizontally and cropped? That, if shot horizontally, would make a stunning widescreen monitor desktop wallpaper. With the building both in the middle, or off to the right.

  Simply a beautiful shot.

Michael Chu, December 16th, 2008 at 9:25 pm:

• I cropped slightly from the bottom (about 5-10% of the bottom) to vertically center the Empire State Building a little better. There was also a 1/2 degree rotation to square up the image.

  I looked through my library and it looks like I never took a horizontal shot with the Empire State Building in the middle - in fact, I don't have much from the left (east) of the building at all. I don't recall why that is. Also, I noticed I didn't have an SLR with me so all of the pictures were taken with my Lumix DMC-LX2. I added an extra shot to show what landscape orientation shot I did capture.

scott, December 16th, 2008 at 10:58 pm:

• You should post higher res versions of some of your photos to some place like http://interfacelift.com/ This particular shot would be great. Would love to get a 1680×1050 (or higher) version of it. :-p

Michael Chu, December 16th, 2008 at 11:58 pm:

• I tend not to make the higher resolutions available to the public because a small amount of my income is dependent on the sale of stock photography.