I was waiting around downtown Durham, North Carolina waiting to be let into a different building for a photography job. While waiting, I decided to walk around and see if I could get a few shots of some of the buildings downtown. "The Novus" is the newest high rise in downtown Durham. I found a nice spot at a common area that is part of another building and took a few photos before heading over to my job.

Nothing special about how it was shot. It was a little after 9am and there was still some nice morning light shining from camera left on the building. Shot on a Sony a7r4 f/11, 5 bracketed shots. Although I only used 1 single RAW image.

I decided to try out a fine art type style edit on this. To make this I selected the building using the pen tool. This allowed me to get rid of some smaller and far away buildings on the right of the frame and better isolate my subject. I changed the entire background to black and added a long exposure sky that I took on the beach back in 2023. I then used a combo of selective masking in both photoshop and camera raw to edit the black and white. To finish I cropped in to further isolate my subject and center the building as this was originally shot with the building on the right 3rd of the frame.

I don't know if this counts as out of the box but it is just a different take on a typical architectural shot.