ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Chrysler Building, New York. USA
(Taken with Leica SL2; Voightlander Super Wide-Heliar 15mm f/4.5)

This was the most interesting Photo I have taken, as its almost immediately after leaving the Grand Central Station exit to Lexington Avenue, one must look straight up. As this was a busy area, I came back on a Sunday when the street was less hectic and plonked a tripod on the street and aimed the camera literally straight up, that required me to lie on ground and look up at the screen to frame the shot. It was manual focus as the lens was a 15mm M Mount lens with adapter. I tried the sensor shift option and used the Leica remote app as a trigger to avoid any camera shake. The DNG file was some 320MB in size.
First Photo that I have got a large print framed and first image I entered into a Photo Salon to win an award. The jeans i wore still has some asphalt marks from the street. :) - This lead me to do a series of Photos looking straight up for a different view of some NY buildings.

AUTHOR
Satya Rodrigo is a photography enthusiast, starting film photography in High School and later briefly studying film and cinema in College. He has been a user of various film cameras ranging from 35mm rangefinders, SLR to 120 Medium Format cameras. He favors rangefinder cameras and has used Leica IIIF; IIIG and M3 film cameras. He is an avid Leica M10-P and Leica SL2 shooter.

His interest is in street photography, portraiture, urban landscape and documentary photography and is particularly passionate about Black and White Photography.


He is a member of the Photographic Society of Sri Lanka (PSSL), the Photographic Society of America (PSA) and the Global Photographic Union (GPU).

He is a member of the Sri Lanka Foreign Service since 1998.

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