Walking from Midtown Manhattan to Chinatown feels like moving from Metropolis to a small city, if that small city was located in China. The huge skyscrapers start to become less ubiquitous and slowly give way completely to streets full of 5 stories buildings. The grand avenues transform themselves into narrow streets, and the storefronts go from the franchise clones to a colorfully chaotic mash of exotic produce and homewares. The city also loses a layer of veneer and becomes more gritty, this also changes the way I approach documenting and lends to a harsher black and white tone on this street scene.

-- Gear
Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR
-- Post
Lightroom : Initial tone, final crop and vignette
Photoshop: Minor clean up and sharpening.
NikCollection Silver Efex Pro 4: Toning, detail extraction and black & white conversion