Introducing blending modes
My thought with this image was to convey some degree of the complexity of my feelings about New York—the place I grew up, and a city that I love and that drives me crazy simultaneously.
To make the image, I shot a number of bracketed sequences from a high-floor window in midtown. The subject matter of each of these image sequences overlapped but was not identical.
I combined the image sequences using a variety of blending modes and applied textural overlays (as explained on pages 175–183) to finish the image.
Various focal lengths, five bracketed exposure sequences, each exposure sequence consisting of seven exposures ...
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