Second Floor: a high-angle street photography AI photoshoot
Second Floor looks down from a second-floor window with a 135 mm lens across six street-style frames, so asphalt and crosswalk stripes flatten into a clean gray backdrop. The person crosses below mid-stride, unaware of the camera, with plenty of empty pavement around.
Art direction: Alex But
- Camera
- 35 mm SLR, from a window
- Lens
- 135 mm
- Aperture
- f/5.6
- Shutter
- 1/125 s
- Film
- ISO 200 color negative
- Light
- Overcast daylight
Best for
Six frames from this shoot
Five frames and one detail, made by haloshot from three phone photos of one person.
Frame 1 · Second Floor 
Frame 2 · Second Floor 
Frame 3 · Second Floor 
Frame 4 · Second Floor 
Frame 5 · Second Floor 
Detail · Second Floor
About the high-angle telephoto look
An even overcast sky lights everything from above: soft shadows under the shoulders, a faint shadow beneath the feet and a low fill bouncing up from the gray road. Fabric reads true without glare. From about 15 meters and roughly 35 degrees down, the 135 mm at f/5.6 compresses the street, and 1/125 s handheld leaves a slight blur on the swinging hand and the trailing foot.
Clothes, place and when to pick it
haloshot layers women in a modular sand vest over a long pale blue shirt and an asymmetric charcoal skirt on wide trousers, and men in the same vest and shirt with wide charcoal trousers. An oversized taupe leather bag and thick-soled loafers suit both. The crossing sits in a weekday business district. It suits lookbook posts and a street-style profile of your own face.
How it works
Add three photos of yourself: face, half turn and full length. haloshot renders a free five-frame preview of Second Floor with your face. Pick the frames you like and keep them in 4:5 HD.
How to photograph street style from a window above
Shooting down from a second-floor window with a 135 mm lens flattens asphalt and crosswalk stripes into a graphic backdrop, the subject small inside empty pavement.
- Rent or borrow a room about 15 m diagonally above a wide crossing; an overcast weekday gives even light.
- Use a 35 mm SLR with the 135 mm at f/5.6 and 1/125 s on ISO 200 color negative, angled 35 degrees down.
- Brief the subject by phone or radio and have them cross several times on the walk signal.
- Release on the stride, heel down, so the body holds sharp while hands and hems blur slightly.
Put an assistant at the curb to watch traffic and call each take.
Set notes by Alex But, art director · Updated
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