42nd & 6th (Alone)

hgihdamhgihdam Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
edited January 29, 2011 in Street and Documentary
Shot from the corner of Bryant park with a D90 and a 18-70mm set to 18mm Iso 100 exposure 13s aperture F22tumblr_lfn50jd6851qdf54p

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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2011
    I love the scene, the streaks of the traffic.clap.gifclap The lone figure - and the ghosts to the right - are a bit too 'lost' in the scene for my taste. But that's my taste. And, you may well be able to do some work in photoshop to make the girl with the skates 'pop' more so that she's more prominent.
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  • hgihdamhgihdam Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
    edited January 27, 2011
    bdcolen wrote: »
    I love the scene, the streaks of the traffic.clap.gifclap The lone figure - and the ghosts to the right - are a bit too 'lost' in the scene for my taste. But that's my taste. And, you may well be able to do some work in photoshop to make the girl with the skates 'pop' more so that she's more prominent.
    Thank you all C&C is very appreciated :D and how would i make the girl pop more in photoshop? I'm still pretty new to the photoshop thing
  • christinamaechristinamae Registered Users Posts: 484 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2011
    I love this! The range of colors is great. I agree with B.D. try to bring out the girl with skates a little more.
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 20,011 moderator
    edited January 27, 2011
    hgihdam wrote: »
    Thank you all C&C is very appreciated :D and how would i make the girl pop more in photoshop? I'm still pretty new to the photoshop thing

    About the only thing you can do is make her darker and the skates lighter. You could dodge and burn, but it is a lot less work to use overlays with everything but the girl masked out. This took me about a minute:

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    I'll send you the gory details by PM, since they're more appropriate for the Finishing School forum. As for the ghosts, well, you'll have to call Ghostbusters, 'cause I don't have a clue how to change that part. :D

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  • jdryan3jdryan3 Registered Users Posts: 1,353 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2011
    Great shots. I would also try to get a little more contrast(darker green) in the Ave of Americas sign, just so it is tad easier, but not to eliminate all the glow.

    BTW - Did you stop by the ICP and see the exhibitions? I sw the Mexican suitcase back in October but would like to see the Wang Qingsong show.
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  • Jtreez818Jtreez818 Registered Users Posts: 11 Big grins
    edited January 28, 2011
    love this shot!! in my photography class we are learning about controlling the aperture and shutter speed... so, may i ask what your shutter setting was on? hopefully my studying has done me good and you are using something close to 1sec? maybe more?
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited January 28, 2011
    The exposure information is posted at the top margin of the image at the top of this thread.

    The shutter speed was 13 seconds.

    Aperture was f22
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  • hgihdamhgihdam Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
    edited January 29, 2011
    thanks for all the comments everyone im going to try and darken the green on the sign and the girl and maybe sharpen it a bit more and then ill repost
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