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Street Duo - Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis
Street Duo - Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis
choltmeier


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Challenge: Urban Landscapes III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Tamron AF 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical(IF)Macro
Location: Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Date: Jun 26, 2008
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Urban
Date Uploaded: Jun 28, 2008

 I have a feeling the DPC crowd won't appreciate my interpretation of an Urban Landscape since it isn't a traditional landscape style shot, although it is definitely "of, relating to, or located in a city". Anyway, I took several shots, some more traditional "city scapes" but this one seemed to show more emotion.

These two guys were performing on the street. I dropped a dollar in their case, motioned to my camera and they were happy to have me take multiple shots. The guy with his back to us is playing stand up bass, which was very cool looking and I'm sorry I didn't get more of it in the shot, but I liked the expression for this shot so I sacrificed some of the other guy.

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Olympus C-2500L
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
 07/10/2008 05:19:58 AM
You got people points from me. It's an odd sort of category, 'cityscapes'. It sort of means urban landscape photography, which gives you all the skyline shots, fair enough... But it's not really a city without people, is it?

Great shot. Long may they busk.
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 07/09/2008 08:38:05 PM
PostLuminous Award Nominee!
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Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM
 07/08/2008 08:24:00 AM
excellent shot, I like the emotion here.
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Nikon D200
Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di for Nikon
 07/07/2008 11:06:20 PM
Ok, funny story pretty sure I saw these guys when I was in Minneapolis going to dinner with the GF at Britts Pub! I like your shot, by the way, if you ever want someone to shoot with just let me know!

Evan
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 07/05/2008 11:51:23 PM
ya know, the cigarette in his mouth makes this image work--not sure why, but it does. 7
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 07/02/2008 07:53:15 AM
I wouldn't call this a landscape, but it is still one of my top photos.
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