About the Image(s)

This was taken at a construction site at a mall near me. As is often the case with modern construction precast exterior walls are put up and held in place by heavy duty braces until the entire structure is secured and the roof installed. I enjoy producing images of the patterns formed by large walls and their shadows combined with contrasting long angular lines, both horizontal and diagonal, as well as differing textures. From the original color picture I cropped in quite a bit until I arrived at a pleasing composition. I also thought that a black and white conversion would add drama. Taken with a tripod mounted Nikon D500 with 18-70 mm lens at about 100 ISO. After editing in Camera Raw I opened into Photoshop CS5 and then into ON1 Perfect Effects 8, where I used the Black and White/ “Roadie” tool.