Father Pitt

Tag: Skylines

  • Skyline from the West End Overlook

    Skyline from the West End Overlook

    Downtown in autumn light with autumnal colors, as seen from the West End Overlook in Elliott.

    Like most of old Pa Pitt’s pictures, these are donated to Wikimedia Commons. If you go to the Commons hosting page for the very wide picture above (you may have to push the “More details” button), you can see that Father Pitt has made use of one of Wikimedia Commons’ clever features. Hover over the picture, and you will see yellow rectangles; hover over those, and labels will appear for prominent landmarks.

  • Early-Morning Skyline

    A new day dawns in the city. Below, with bonus coal barge.

  • The Skyline on a Grey December Day

  • The Skyline at Sunset

    Above, a fairly large panorama made from five individual pictures. Below, a “high-dynamic-range” picture made from three separate exposures.

  • Glimpses of the Skyline

    The skyline of downtown glimpsed from the northwest through fall foliage.

  • The View from Mount Washington, in Two Colors

    The skyline on a perfect day, rendered in old-postcard colors.

  • The View from Mount Washington, in Black and White

    It was a perfect day for skyline pictures, with puffy white clouds filling the sky. This is how it looked in black and white.

  • Oakland Skyline in Panorama

    The South Side Slopes give us excellent views of the Oakland skyline. We’ve already seen the point of view from St. Michael’s Cemetery; now here is the view from Mission Street a little to the east and halfway down the hill. Click on the picture to see a good bit of detail.

  • There’s No Such Thing as Correct Exposure

    Old Pa Pitt often tells young photographers that there’s no such thing as correct exposure. He likes to make dogmatic pronouncements like that and watch their reactions. But this is what he means. These two pictures of the skyline at night are taken at quite different exposures (two whole stops apart, in fact). The one above is the kind of exposure you will usually see in a night shot of a city skyline. The one below is much closer to the way the skyline actually appears to the eye of the observer. Which is correct? Neither, of course. It is a matter of taste, and of creating the image you, the photographer, wish to create.

  • Evening Skyline

    There are thousands of pictures of the skyline of Pittsburgh by night; this is not the best, but it is probably the most up-to-date on the Web at the moment. The skyline is changing, after all, so all those other pictures are completely passé.

    Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.