Challenge:City Life (Classic Editing) Camera:Canon EOS-D60 Location: 79th/Colombus, New York Date: Jun 21, 2002 Aperture: 9.5 ISO: 200 Shutter: 1/350 Date Uploaded: Jun 23, 2002
Shot at 7:40pm looking West on 79th street, Upper West Side NYC. A rare moment with only 1 lonely cab coming down towards the intersection with Colombus. Shot with my 28-70 mm lens.
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I wanted to thank everyone for your kind comments.
It's interesting to see how people prefer the picture with or without the car, with more or less road etc.... I tend to be very instinctive...I always, always look for shots, no matter what I do, whether I have a camera or not. I always regret those I don't shoot. The real exceptional thing about this city shot was that there were no cars on the street for about 1 minute, which is really rare, especially at this time of day in NYC.
As far as the "development" is concerned, the only thing I changed from the original was straightening the horizon (i.e. rotating the photo slightly), which means that I effectively had to crop about 3% of the border all around. I also added a little contrast and saturation from the original using "Levels" in Photoshop. All in all it's very close to how I got it on camera!
Great photo! I like the lighting very much and the soft, warm color. The driving car is pressed a litte too close on the left side. More space there would be nice but I guess there were other cars parking on this side which you better cropped out. Photo 9, Creativity 9, City Life 9 = 9
This is a phenomenal photo... This is definitely worthy of a ribbon this week. I LOVE the way the sunlight is reflecting off the sides of the buildings and the car windows. The composition of this photo is excellent and you have a great eye to have noticed this opportunity. It seems like you may have intentionally under exposed this one a bit... Good move! Great shot... kudos :) = 10 - jmsetzler
I love the sunlight reflecting on these building. I like the angle of the shot, the perspective....the one single car/taxi coming down the road, the sunlight shining off the car windows. The colors are great to me and I like the starkness of the sky against the slanted angle of the buildings pulling your eye into the distance. 9 :)
wish that cab wasn't there. i don't know how busy this street is, but if you had waited just a tad longer it would have been really nice. as it is, though, i love the view. the angle is very nice and really captures some of the finer moments of city life, with the sun shining off the buildings. nicely done.
Looks like a postcard. Beautiful colors and light. Love the taxi coming down the street. Could us a tad more focus (not much, I like a little blur on this) 9
Beautiful composition -- how did you make the sky so white? Update: I've reviewed all the photos for the week and am moving your image to a 10 as I think it's one of the best here. Great Job!
This is my favourite photo here from looking through the thumbnails. There's always one that grabs me straight away, and I give it 10. This is absolutely beautiful.
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