From the course: The Traveling Photographer: New York

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Shoot: The Manhattan skyline through the pilings

Shoot: The Manhattan skyline through the pilings

From the course: The Traveling Photographer: New York

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Shoot: The Manhattan skyline through the pilings

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- Alright, so the classic, rock star skyline for New York City is Top of the Rock, but this is something that's a little quieter, and a little more, I don't know, it's a little more organic to me. We're at the southern tip of, across from the southern tip of Manhattan, we're at the south end of Brooklyn Bridge Park, and there's some pilings, which are really easy to find if you use your Google Map, at the south end of the park, and the pilings give you a really cool foreground element, especially with moving water, and especially at a long exposure, and that's exactly what we're gonna do tonight. So we've been around the world doing these things in blue light, you kinda know the deal right now, we're gonna, we're locking down on a tripod, 'cos I'm looking to do like a seven or eight or 10-second exposure, really smooth that water out, the city's coming up, the light's going down, it's all gonna get pretty magical. The one thing I am gonna do differently here, is since we're using such…

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