This is a vertical view of the Macy's (Marshall Field's) store on State Street in Chicago. The architecture of this building is quite impressive. Converted to b&w using Silver Efex.
Will be behind in commenting for awhile. The night photography camera setting challenge ends this weekend so if you were thinking of participating, today's the day!
Love the processing - easy Fav. Would be interested to know what filter you used on this... although it's clear that the Nik conversion was only a starting point.
@vignouse Thanks Richard! I always appreciate your feedback/thoughts. I probably used full contrast/structure or one of the high structure smooth ones or something like that on this one to start with, then brightened it a bit, but honestly, I don't know for sure anymore. I keep thinking I should write down what I do so I can repeat it, but I never take the time.
@taffy I particularly liked this because of the high structure processing which suits the linear form of the image perfectly. You can save your processing as a filter if you happen on something you like, but only that part of it done in Nik of course.
@vignouse I tend to work between LR5 and Nik plug-ins so that's what makes it hard to recreate. It's been frustrating when I've inadvertently worked on a smart preview version (small) instead of the real one -- not a mistake I'm going to make again!
Have you done some more work on the perspective since posting on Flickr, Taffy? It looks different (better) to me - or perhaps I was tired when I looked at the first version... :-)
@ericdibosco Just a tad...I think it's as good as I can get it. I stood as centered as possible but I must have been just a bit off as I can't get all to line up perfectly.
I will have to get out tonight to try and get a night shot.