Hey gang,
Last time I visited South Station, I wasn’t happy with the shots that I took. I decided that Blue Hour would be a far better time to shoot. To that end, I give you this image taken on Friday which I like far more:
Boston South Station by Christopher J. May, on Flickr
As always, C&C more than welcome.
Uh…Wow.
Uh…Yeah!
Holy COW, Chris![bow] Got to agree with Mookie and Ed. [tup] [tup]
Was there much damage when those buildings fell into each other?
Seriously, that is a very interesting image. I do not recall ever seeing lens distortion used so effectively. That must be what a wickedly wide-angle lens will do for a photo. Did you use a star filter, or is the star pattern due to the lens itself?
Either way, a most slendid photograph!
Zardoz, since it’s Boston shouldn’t that be wicked wide-angle lens?
Thank you, Ed, Mook and Sam!
Z - Thanks. The wide angle did help with the crazy distortion. I’m planning to do a long post about this one. I’ll have some more details about how I came up with the composition in there.
No star filter. Just stopped the lens down to f14. Since the 12-24 has straight cut aperture blades, it produces decent starbursts when stopped down. I do wish it had an odd number of blades, though. The 6 bladed aperture produces sort of ho hum six pointed starbursts. An odd number of blades would double the points in the starburst (e.g. a seven bladed aperture would produce 14 pointed starbursts). My true Nikon lenses are best at this. The 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D does the nicest job.
gardendance - Good catch!
I’ve got nothing to say.
Really.
Speechless.
Thanks, Chuck. 
I’ve now posted a discussion of the making of this image as Lesson 4 in my on-going photo-tips series for anyone that might be interested.