This is an aerial view taken when the plane is over Chelsea. My plan was to show the new bridge within the context of the rest of Boston. I decided to make this a black and white shot as the bridge really sines out against the rest of the darker buildings. There is some Lightroom processing here to get this very graphic black and white effect.
Usually in Lightroom you will use curves or levels to create contrast. A curve is normally S shaped with a well exposed image. To get the look of this image I wanted to really have blacks and whites but not many intermediate grays so rather than have an S shape the curve is more r shaped. This means having strong blacks and whites but bringing the mid tones up to make them brighter. This can take a little experimentation as it is easy to blow out the highlights this way but modifying the white point as you go can help a lot with this.
