New York Magazine cover image
This image has been making most of the photographers I know, architectural and otherwise, a bit weak at the knees recently. It’s shot by Iwan Baan who is arguably the worlds best Architectural Photographer – for now. The image is the kind of thing that just wouldn’t have the same impact as shot with Instagram as some of the New York press have been doing, and which I argued against recently. The original article neatly describes their reasons for running the image as well the difficulties they faced keeping their publishing workflow going when all their infrastructure was down.
Another article has emerged this morning which is an interview with Baan himself discussing how he actually got the image. Some of the technical details read a little like a Canon ad but it’s interesting nonetheless. Someone should have told him that he could have had such high ISO four years ago with a Nikon D3S!
