..here’s the bling-bling district.. shot wide open, hand held with ultra high iso, in the middle of the street.. colors are kind of blah so opted for the black and white..
The Diamond District is an area of New York City located on West 47th Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in midtown Manhattan, within walking distance of many New York attractions. It is located one block south of Rockefeller Center, three blocks south of Radio City Music Hall (along the Avenue of the Americas), three blocks south of St Patrick’s Cathedral (along Fifth Avenue), and one block east of the Broadway Theater District. The Plaza Arcade, lined with shops, connects the street to Rockefeller Center.
The district was created when dealers moved north from an earlier district near Canal Street and the Bowery that was created in the 1920s, and from a second district located in the Financial District, near the intersection of Fulton and Nassau Streets, which started in 1931. The move uptown started in 1941. The district grew in importance when the German Nazis invaded the Netherlands and Belgium, forcing thousands of Orthodox Jews in the diamond business to flee Antwerp and Amsterdam and settle in New York City. Most of them remained after World War II, and remain a dominant influence in the Diamond District… (wiki)
**for those of you curious as to how it’ll look in color, here ya go..
25 replies on “moleman series: diamond district”
a very cool shot. i like the way you made it BW here, with a different kind of approach. nice work =D
B+W really works in the shot and the round composition is very cool.
some folk hate fisheye shots- not me I love them. Great example here.
Nice. Works great as BW.
Very cool though I would have liked it more in colour
Great symmetry here, including the one car coming. Though not too bling-bling (thanks to the b&w maybe), this compo is a true jewel 🙂
Love the B/W processing on this one Rian. Really like the split down the middle effect, excellent work!
I like this in black and white! The lens effect is good with color, but this has a nice graphic quality that is very appealing. Super shot.
Superb in black and white, Rian! I love the symmetry in this shot, the split down the middle making it seem like a reflection at a cursory glance. Excellent work.
Another cool shot. Well done. f ddoi
Great in b&w! Is this the first shot you have done in b&w for the moleman series? I cant remember any others in b&w but I may have just forgotten.
WOW! Love how you do these. The b&w in this particular image works perfectly.
Such an effective and pleasing effect. Great work
Very interesting result with this effect..
Realmente espectacular. Los ángulos que consigue este objetivo son increibles. Me gusta mucho.
i really like how the crosswalk lines fan out. gives the whole scene an inviting and playful look.
Perfect to have this so symmetrical and also curved like this! I love the choice for B&W here!
Nice! That head on, winged look like you did with RockCtr, I think. I think it’s very cool how you must see the symmetry in your mind before deciding how to go with the lens. Kudos for that. When I first opened it, I saw a slightly demonic smiley face. Was that just me?
thanks.. yep, i had a list of places that i’d want to give this effect to.. this was one of them.. i intentionally did the b&w to bring out the smiley.. you were the only one who noticed that.. kudos for that too.. 🙂 btw, i put a colored version up here..
Wow…that looks very cool in black and white. Strangely, I’ve not considered grayscale for night photos…no reason I shouldn’t though. This is nicely done.
as always, spectacular fisheye. textures that are coming out in the b/w version are very cool.
I like the greyscale very much. Although the gold kinda fits the jewelry:-) I’d love to see those stores. Jewelry has also been important to me…a taste I acquired because my Dad was a jeweler and I was always around it. Love these fisheye captures.
Great moleman, love the painting for the crossing gives it a great look… excellent in b&w too.
Love the grains, beautiful shot!
nice fisheye! pardon the pun …. but the Diamond district always seems a little fishy!