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Milwaukee Art Museum with the "sails" closed.

Milwaukee Art Museum with the "sails" closed.
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cameraSONY ILCE-7

settings Aperture f/4.5 ISO 100 Shutter 1/1600 Focal Length 440/10 

upload_dateFeb, 2016

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2 Comments |
Hobbyist
 
Hobbyist April 10, 2018
Nice shot - such a great building
thunderlake Platinum
 
thunderlake October 07, 2018
Amazing!!

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#architecture #art museum #black #building #closed #milwaukee #Quadracci Pavilion #shadows #white
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Behind The Lens

Location

This photograph was captured in Milwaukee, Wisconsin looking east at the Milwaukee Art Museum right off of Lake Michigan on a path that leads over the Lincoln Memorial Drive via a walking bridge.

Time

This was a full day of photographing in and round the Milwaukee Art Museum. By the time I reached this location, it was towards the end of the day around 4pm.

Lighting

Nothing special about the lighting beyond a normal partly cloudy Wisconsin day. With the sun to my back, it lit up the southern side of the building while keeping the northern side in a slight shadow making a great contrasting photo.

Equipment

It was my first day using my Sony A7 and only had the kit lens as I only received the camera the day before this image. It was my "lets see what this camera can do" day. This was done handheld and captured multiple images via the burst feature.

Inspiration

Thomas Hawk was visiting Milwaukee to shoot photographs around the area and asked if local photogs wanted to walk around with him he would be in the area to join him. So I meet up with him and we started shooting each and every angle of the building, inside and out. This was one of the last photos that were taken. When I looked at the building from this angle I noticed that the clouds were moving pretty fast so I took multiple shots knowing I would layer them later to make the clouds have a motion. I shot this way due to the amount of people walking around the area and I wanted to make sure to have an image with no people.

Editing

This was did need a bit of post-processing, but not a lot. As mentioned, I took multiple shots knowing that I would layer them together to get motions in the clouds. I was able to then keep the first shot as my main image since there was no people walking on the path at the time and I simply had to just apply the layers to the sky to get the clouds moving. Then a black and white conversion with minimal tuning with highlights and shadows.

In my camera bag

My bag is pretty light as I only have my Manfrotto MK290DUA3-BHUS 290 tripod with a Manfrotto 494 RC2 head, the Sony FE 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS Lens, Tamron 150-600mm, few extra batteries, Sandisk memory cards, and the ColorMunki ColorChecker Passport.

Feedback

With this image, I didn't shoot long exposure simply because I didn't want people in the image with motion blur. I couldn't go for a super long exposure to remove the people because the cloud affect wouldn't be what I looked for, so I went with photo stacking to achieve the blur I wanted. My goal in this image was to highlight the museum's shape by using all of the leading lines to bring the eye to the center of the image. I used the motion of the clouds to remove details from the sky and keep the attention to the center.

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