Stripe photos tend to be seen as regular pictures edited to the shape of brochure images - until studied. It's clear looking at the feet (moreso in the black and white version) that we are looking directly down at that point. The pavement slips away, the building's curiously angled windows don't arouse our suspions too much, and even the forty five degree angle of the streetlight can be passed off as some sort of constructed city oddity.

But it is a series taken from bottom to top.

Film grain has been added to give a texture and grittiness to the black and white.

An advantage of this image being taken in a series is certainly the avoidance of washed out areas with little detail. On the other hand it can provide too much of a continous and even 'sheen' to dark and light areas and leaves the eye wondering where to rest. The detail is nice but at some point it lacks bite. You can get around this by increasing the contrast in certain areas and I've been known to simply hide swathes of the picture in shadow to avoid this in particular images.

While I'm sorry to lose that sky blue of the waning light the pavement gained in the loss of that mustard colouring.