Northern Dispensary, Waverly Place in Greenwich Village

Was just wondering -- what do you think of this composition? Is the

angle interesting?

Imo, the angle is too plain. Have you tried getting nearer and slanting the camera and using wild perspectives to make it a better (more graphical) composition ? Regards.

It's somewhat interesting, but it just doesn't "capture" me. I don't know the area at all, so I don't know what other angles are available, or what other vantage points are available looking at it from that angle with different focal lengths. There are several buildings in my city that I'm somewhat obsessed with, that I've taken dozens and dozens of photos of under different lighting conditions, from different angles, with different lenses, but I'm still not satisfied. So, keep trying. I think there's potential there. Maybe figure out a way to get rid of the lampost, and the car windshield or rear windown or whatever on the bottom right corner. Hope this helps (I'm trying to be constructive ),

The building is triangular, and in the intersection of 5 streets, believe it or not -- Waverly Place, Waverly Place, (check the signs, I'm not kidding) Christopher Street, Grove Street and Stonewall Place. Next time I'm there, I'll give your suggestions a try.

I have to disagree with "using wild perspectives" on this building. You've got the perspective almost perfect. Next time bring a level to get rid of converging lines.

The tight cropping is necessary (since you don't have a tilt & shift lens) but try to stick to standard proportions. Even making it perfectly square would work.

More of the surrounding buildings would be helpful. Find a time (street cleaning?) when cars are not parked and people aren't walking by in distracting red coats. Very interesting bit of architecture.

Hmmm -- I cropped the picture much more tightly -- this is the result.

I'd almost wonder how this shot would look taken through a "fisheye" lens to distort/emphasise the perspective here... :-) Although you could get some interesting shots playing around with different views here, Peter is right - the perspective is pretty good as it is. I find the cars along the building itself are okay, but the windsheld in the bottom right corner is a bit distracting. Pretty nice overall. Your tighter crop helps remove some extra elements (the red-coated lady). Definitly worth reshooting though!

Interesting little discussion, the fish eye sounds like a cool idea and was my first thought. Am sorry to say it but what is the focus point here? What is the thing you want the viewer to concentrate on? The frame is somewhat symmetrical and there does not appear to be items of real interest for the viewer. Maybe use height, look down on the scene, you mentioned that its a junction of 5 streets, use this perhaps.

 

Try black and white, scenes in colour seem normal and we are used to seeing them all the time where as B&W seems different and can add some character and simplify the composition. In my humble opinion of course, Im as guilty as the next dude of the same difficulties hehehe :~)

The angle is the one I think most people who know the West Village see. Perhaps you could get into one of the tall buildings surrounding it and take a shot from above?

 

Also (and I don't know if it's the photo.net compression that's doing it), the detail isn't that great. I can't read the signs, for example. Maybe if you mounted the camera on a tripod.

 

You might also want to shoot it at different times of the day and play around with the lighting.