An Impossible Shot

    There are a lot of remarkable things about Iwan Baan's cover photograph for New York magazine, showing a divided New York City — half brilliantly lit, half plunged into darkness in the wake of Sandy — but one of them is that Baan says the shot would've been impossible to take before a camera like Canon's 1DX (or Nikon's D4). (He shot it wide open with a 1/40 second shutter speed at 25,000 ISO.)

    Matt Buchanan
    by Matt Buchanan

    BuzzFeed Staff

    An Impossible Shot

    poynter.org

    There are a lot of remarkable things about Iwan Baan's cover photograph for New York magazine, showing a divided New York City — half brilliantly lit, half plunged into darkness in the wake of Sandy — but one of them is that Baan says the shot would've been impossible to take before a camera like Canon's 1DX (or Nikon's D4). (He shot it wide open with a 1/40 second shutter speed at 25,000 ISO.)