Across Baltimore

As I previously said, I had the opportunity to once again climb atop a highrise building in downtown Baltimore City. This time, the building was across the harbor, providing a different view than I’ve shot before.

I got up bright and early to head down to the building around 6am. It was the earliest we could get up, but just late enough to miss the sunrise. That’s okay because the building wasn’t pointed in alignment with the sun and downtown Baltimore and the light was beautiful and warm anyway.

To get to the roof, we had to ride the elevator up 20 some floors and then climb a few flights of stairs. Definitely not the hardest roof I’ve had to access. Once up on top, I had to crawl under a fence-type thing to get to the outer edge of the roof. Early morning dew and repeated crawls to get to different sides of the building caused my khaki pants for work to get dirty quickly. Boss was wondering which gutter I had slept in the night before coming into work.

Below is the finished shot that I captured. Thinking about getting this blown up to poster size. Click below to view it in all of it’s 51 megapixel glory.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/500, f/5, ISO 160)

I took a few shots of my dad, hiding the sun with his head and hitting his face with a speedlight from camera left. I stood in and asked him to take the same shot of me. I probably edited it a little too much, but I like it.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/200, f/16, ISO 160)

One of his employees getting ready to drop off the side of the building.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 135mm, 1/125, f/8, ISO 160)