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Probably one of the most cliche shots in the city, but basic shots done right still look nice, so I’m sharing this one with you.
Powell’s City of Books is laid out across several floors, has maps, and the minotaurs work the info desks and help people out, as opposed to being dead from malnutrition in an arbitrary badly-lit corner of book hell.
Thanks for seeing my work!
hey, i was there earlier this year! they've got a neat photography section on the top floor near the rare book room. cool place, really embodies the vibes of portland as a whole even if it's half full of poser tourists such as myself
How old is that building in the background? I went to Powell's once in the mid-00s and don't remember that, but I mostly just remember the inside of the place.
Probably built in 05-ish? Was one of the older projects by the development group Gerding Edlin who built out the initial push around the brewery blocks.
Ah, it was probably still under construction when I went then. I think it was '03 or '04, but maybe even a bit earlier.
Idea:
You should get a tripod and take a night photo with a longer shutter.
You can stack images of car trails to get a cool final image too.
I myself dabble a bit in light painting photography.
Always trying to get more people into it.
I feel like a street view of the bookstore with the lights at night would look really nice.
I have all this kit, I just didn't use it because I had the picture I submitted in mind: less streets, more architecture, more sky.
Most of my sprawling urban shots are shot with a ProMaster SP528CK and a Canon EOS Rebel T7, and edited and stacked in Darktable in post-production.