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Challenge: Street Photography In Color (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
Location: New York City
Date: Jul 14, 2009
Aperture: 4
ISO: 500
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Urban, Street
Date Uploaded: Jul 14, 2009

 Wanted to go to Times Square for this challenge, but the basic editing limitations made me think otherwise since it's so tough to shoot there. I decided to go with this, probably won't score past 5, but I like the area, the entire place is a old Navy museam. Definitely out of the box, more of a landscape shot, but hey.

PRE-shot: This was my tenth attempt to take this shot, had trouble with the pedestrians because they were coming out blurry. Night street shots are tough, a couple boosts in ISO fixed this, luckily didnt over expose the lights.

POST PROCESS: Just Curves/Contrast combo.

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Place: 49 out of 137
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR
 07/22/2009 01:23:15 AM
I actually submitted this purposely, to see if it fit into the theme, I knew it didn't, but thought It possibly be accepted...oh well, whatta ya gonna do.
Fujifilm x100
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 07/22/2009 12:50:35 AM
Critique Club

First, I enjoyed your portfolio, plenty of good work. Particularly this!

FIRST IMPRESSION:
Does not grab, as you said, bit out of the box for what I was expecting for street.

COMPOSITION:
Excellent. The right building is positioned well. The inclusion of the distant buildings buried in dark hurts IMO.

TECHNICAL:
I really like the way you capture the detailed lighting of the main building. Highlights it's texture. Drawback...the bright lights far off on the leading lines. Visual competition!

You know, when I sit here looking through the photograph, I'm drawn to the architecture of the main building, and for that reason it does not feel *street*. But you knew that based on your comments in the description. :)

Cheers,

Ben

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/20/2009 02:25:55 PM
I wouldn't say this falls under street photography.
Canon EOS-40D
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Canon
 07/18/2009 03:00:40 AM
Nice night shot. Would have liked it cropped a little more at the top.
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Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM
 07/15/2009 08:17:09 AM
Too far away to show the people and what they are doing. I like the light on the building to the right.
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G
 07/15/2009 01:06:22 AM
Looks like a set of miniatures.... I really like the color balance and how it doesn't quite seem like night. Would love to see this image at a larger scale. Gonna go with a 9 GL
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