Downtown

Downtown, Lower Manhattan Subway, NY – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Gallery

Downtown, Lower Manhattan Subway, NY – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Gallery

This is an unframed, limited edition collection landscape photography print of only 25 units. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl papers, structured to refract the highest values in colour and detail. It’s high-quality ink absorbing layer enables exceptional image quality with enormously detailed sharpness, and a very broad colour range, providing archival permanency of your artwork for over 100 years.

Canon 5DMk2, 16mm, F8, 1/20th sec, ISO 1600, no filter, processed in Lightroom.

On my way to a Yankees game, I decided to do a few stops on the NYC Subway. The smell of diesel and old steel invaded my nostrils, along with the soot like dust from the trains. The subway stood up to everything I ever imagined it to be. Noisy, smelly, pushy and fast. I watch as literally every 30 seconds a train pulled into or out of a platform. The No.4 train from downtown Manhattan took me direct to Yankees stadium

Downtown, Lower Manhattan Subway, NY – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Gallery

To expand your view when you can’t go wider, sometimes it pays off to skew your frame, by rotating the camera so that you can fit more in. If you have very strong leading lines, be sure to use your rule of thirds or the Fibonacci spiral, to draw the viewer in. (If you are not sure what these are, contact me, or join a workshop). Include a string use of light and shadow to manipulate the image as well, and make those leading lines even stronger.