I went for a "Humans of New York" theme for this, seeing that I was in NYC and the people add personality. The focus of this is the black band across the middle of this photo. I tried to take away as much light as possible from this point to make it seemingly impossible to distinguish precisely what the band is, in case you are wondering, it's a walkway. I wanted to do this so that when the eye is moved to this point, it doesn't linger long but moves either above or below. The beauty of this was that the above portion is only landscape and the bottom focuses on the people. The individual windows created a block-like effect which allowed the differences to be portrayed. Those with umbrellas v. those in ponchos, those who were ready for the storm v. those who were not.
The landscape portion of this is well developed as well because the sky is much lighter. Thankfully because it was already light in this portion of the city, a higher shutter speed just blocked out the light for the band and not the sky. This contrast allows the city landscape to take precedence.
By the way if you would like to see Humans of New York, you can visit the blog at http://www.humansofnewyork.com/ or on facebook: "Humans of New York"
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