School Building Windows, The Mission. San Francisco, California. February 20, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Colorful wall and reflective windows of a Mission District school building, San Francisco, California.
This is, obviously, a study of some interesting geometry I saw while wandering about in the Mission District. (These patterns of window and wall reminded me of some photographs I made at the Seattle Sculpture Park a couple of years ago.) The geometrical rectangular shapes of the windows and sections of green wall interest me, but what I was really looking at was the collection of surprisingly different “frame” in each of the windows. They range from the almost intact view of the old building in the larger section in the upper left quadrant to the distorted and quite abstract shape in its counterpart in the upper right quarter.
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Technical Data:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
ISO 200, f/8, 1/100 second
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Thanks, Ivan, I appreciate the comment!
As to the methodology, this was done while out shooting hand held with only a couple of primes – a 35mm and a 50mm – on my full frame camera. (Roughly an approximation of old school street photography, though I tend to approach it from a sort of “urban landscape” perspective.) So this was shot without a tripod.
I rarely use a tripod when shooting this sort of urban stuff – actually I think I never use a tripod for real street photography. But I do very carefully frame up the shot – in the same way I might when using a tripod – so it isn’t a “grab shot” at all.
Dan
Love this photo Dan. It shows your attention to detail and your great eye.
When you take an image like this, do you take it from a tripod?