What I love about the buildings here is that the colours are all so grey toned that even when you shoot and view the images in colour its very monochromatic looking. All the images above are shown in colour except one!
I'm a complete amateur photographer but it is a passion of mine. I love to shoot landscapes and streetscapes particlarly, I don't use photoshop or edit my photos in any way except to convert to black and white or crop images. When I want high quality prints made for framing I send the image off to Elevator Digital and they take care of all the technical issues for me (resizing etc.). Mostly, I like my images to remain true to the way I shoot them without any enhancing or special effects. Sometimes I like to shoot slightly overexposed, sometimes underexposed depending on the mood I'm trying to capture. What I love to do with my photos the most is have them printed and framed for wall art, sometime for myself, sometimes for clients. When you frame an image it takes on an entirely new dynamic, I'll be getting several of these printed and framed and they'll be something like this...
Unless I'm doing one large oversize print, I try to group images into groups of 2, 3 or 4's combining both landscape and portrait orientation as I did above. Once I've decided on which images I like grouped together, I'll decide if I want them printed in black and white or colour.....
....and then I figure out my final image sizes, matt sizes and decide on frame colour by doing mock-ups similar to these (very rough above!), often I do this on a scaled elevation of the wall and I'll normally include the frame too (not shown on the above). For frames I always do a simple rectangular profile in white, black, silver or natural wood. Lately I've been doing a lot of white framed coloured photography, which I LOVE. Then once all this is figured out I send the original image files off to Kevin at the printing lab who takes care of printing, matting and framing for me.
If you ever visit NYC I highly recommend a visit to this neighborhood whether you're passionate about architecture or not, its simply an experience like no other.
All Photos: Carol Reed