Boston's South Station During Blue Hour (1 IMG)

[CopCarSS]

Hey gang,

Last time I visited South Station, I wasn't happy with the shots that I took. I decided that Blue Hour would be a far better time to shoot. To that end, I give you this image taken on Friday which I like far more:

Boston South Station by Christopher J. May, on Flickr

As always, C&C more than welcome.

[edblysard]

Uh...Wow.

[Mookie]

edblysard

Uh...Wow.

 

Uh....Yeah!

[samfp1943]

Mookie

 

edblysard wrote:

Uh...Wow.

 

 

 

 

Uh....Yeah!

 

 

Holy COW, Chris!   Got to agree with Mookie and Ed.

 

[zardoz]

Was there much damage when those buildings fell into each other?

 

Seriously, that is a very interesting image. I do not recall ever seeing lens distortion used so effectively. That must be what a wickedly wide-angle lens will do for a photo.  Did you use a star filter, or is the star pattern due to the lens itself?

 

Either way, a most slendid photograph!

[gardendance]

Zardoz, since it's Boston shouldn't that be wicked wide-angle lens?

[CopCarSS]

Thank you, Ed, Mook and Sam!

Z - Thanks. The wide angle did help with the crazy distortion. I'm planning to do a long post about this one. I'll have some more details about how I came up with the composition in there.

No star filter. Just stopped the lens down to f14. Since the 12-24 has straight cut aperture blades, it produces decent starbursts when stopped down. I do wish it had an odd number of blades, though. The 6 bladed aperture produces sort of ho hum six pointed starbursts. An odd number of blades would double the points in the starburst (e.g. a seven bladed aperture would produce 14 pointed starbursts). My true Nikon lenses are best at this. The 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D does the nicest job.

gardendance - Good catch!

[ChuckCobleigh]

I've got nothing to say.

Really.

Speechless.

[CopCarSS]

Thanks, Chuck. :-)

I've now posted a discussion of the making of this image as Lesson 4 in my on-going photo-tips series for anyone that might be interested.