Trip to New York City

jamesl

Howdy All,

I haven't been around much lately. Been crazy busy at work. Just this past week, my wife and I had a chance to visit New York City for a few days. The weather ended up being beautiful, and I had a chance to get a few good shots. Many of them were inspired by others from this forum (Shay, Andy, etc). I even made a trip down to the fabled B&H, although I didn't have my camera with me (it was pouring rain that day). Tried out a 5D with the 24-70 L while I was there. Both are probably going to added to my bag soon. Shown here are mostly panos. I still have to process the rest of my shots. If anyone is interested, I used Panorama Factory V4 to stitch all of these shots.


We had a nice day for view Lady Liberty. I had to wait quite a bit for the crowds to disperse some.


We also stopped by Ellis Island. What a fascinating place!


We had a great view of the skyline coming back. It sure is empty without the towers there. :cry This was 4 shots handheld.


We spent a few hours in Central Park. I shot this using my R72 and 28-135. Shutter speed was around 6 seconds, I think.


The second night we were there, the friend we were staying with took us out to Pier 17, on the Manhattan side. I couldn't pass up this shot. These are the 3 Brooklyn Bridges. Easy to remember with BMW (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg). Quite a bit of haze in the air, but it really enhanced the reflection of the lights in the sky.


On our first night, we took a trip up to the Empire State Building. Caught a real nice sunset from up there. I also learned that your not allowed to bring up tripods, so all of the frames for this pano were handheld at ISO 800.

On our second to last night, we had perfect conditions for skyline shots of Manhattan. My wife and I headed down to a little park right on the brooklyn side right on the water. It offered a great view, as it was located between the Brookely and Manhattan bridges. It was a very safe place, as there were tons of people around. Here's a few of the shots from there:


Just after sunset, during the best part of the Blue Hour.


Brookly Bridge and Manhattan.


Manhattan bridge with a Circle Line cruise ship passing by. These people were having a great time partying!


Wide angle shot of the whole area. What a beautiful night!

Well, that's about it. There are slightly larger versions of the images at http://www.langfordphotography.com/gallery/1340791 . I'll be adding in more images as I process them too.

James

http://www.langfordphotography.com

saurora

Stunning!

bfrantz

Stunning!

Indeed! That makes me want to start experimenting with stitching shots together into panoramas...

Richard

Great series. Thanks for sharing.

Regards,

TristanP

Beautiful shots, James.

Andy

And you didn't say hi :cry

great job!

jamesl

Andy wrote:

And you didn't say hi :cry

great job!

Hi Andy! Yeah, I'm a slacker. I had meant to fire off emails to the New Yorkers I know, but never got around to it. :cry However, I did expect to see you at B&H on Tuesday at the DSLR counter. I thought you lived there or something. Thanks for the comments!

James

MotoKat

fabulous!

gpgold

jamesl wrote:

Howdy All,

I haven't been around much lately. Been crazy busy at work. Just this past week, my wife and I had a chance to visit New York City for a few days. The weather ended up being beautiful, and I had a chance to get a few good shots. Many of them were inspired by others from this forum (Shay, Andy, etc). I even made a trip down to the fabled B&H, although I didn't have my camera with me (it was pouring rain that day). Tried out a 5D with the 24-70 L while I was there. Both are probably going to added to my bag soon. Shown here are mostly panos. I still have to process the rest of my shots. If anyone is interested, I used Panorama Factory V4 to stitch all of these shots.


Well, that's about it. There are slightly larger versions of the images at http://www.langfordphotography.com/gallery/1340791 . I'll be adding in more images as I process them too.

James

http://www.langfordphotography.com

Beautful series! I love the pano from the Empire State - I haven't seen that as a night shot before, very cool.

regards,

gary

USAIR

Very beautiful photos
Pano is awesome

Thanks
Fred

Eric&Susan

Fantastic

They are all great.

Eric

Shima

Fabulous shots. As someone who grew up living an hour away from the city, marvelous job

nburwell

Absolutely beautiful series! I'll never get tired of NYC photos, especially at night! Fantastic job at capturing a beautiful city!

Dee

Gorgeous
You were very lucky with the weather. I love those night bridge shots and reflections...

System

gorgeous-

george

firedancing4life

nice shots...I want to go to NYC. I haven't been there since 96 or something like that. The the 3 bridges is one of my favorites...BMW..hahaha

dancinkate

WOW! Absolutely beautiful!

erich6

James,

These images are excellent. All of them are very nicely done...beautiful colors and you captured the mood well.

How did you process the 4th one?

Nice job on the panos!

Erich

ryan_wedemeyer

inspiring. i know these were stitched, but, it reminds me that i mean to go and rent a panorama camera one of these days.

ryan_wedemeyer

reminded me of this thing i did a while back.

Stormdancing

Outstanding! Awesome shots and handheld too. WOW

jamesl

ryan_wedemeyer wrote:

reminded me of this thing i did a while back.

Sweet shot Ryan. Where was that taken? My Dad managed several refineries (in CA, MT, and NM) over the years.

If you are really interested in panos, you should check out Panorama Factory (http://www.panoramafactory.com). They have a free trial for 30 days or something. Very easy to use.

Thanks for the comments!

James

jamesl

Thank you all!
Howdy All,

Thank you all for you kind comments. I really appreciate them. Hopefully I will be able to hang around here a bit more, since I shouldn't be quite as busy at work in the next few monhts.

Take care,

James

ryan_wedemeyer

i'll have to check out pano factory, thanks.

the refinery is in salt lake city, utah, just off I-15.

they put up a star for x-mas.

my photoshop skills have grown since i last worked on that one...........

harjtt

Some stunning shots..
The Panaorama from the Empire State is just awesome. The last time I was up there the State building got hit by a major storm so everyone was forced to evac.

Your shot of the NY sky line loosk so differenet without the Twin Towers that I didn't even recognise that it was Manhattan.

Cheers

D

HarjTT

jamesl

harjtt wrote:

The Panaorama from the Empire State is just awesome. The last time I was up there the State building got hit by a major storm so everyone was forced to evac.

Your shot of the NY sky line loosk so differenet without the Twin Towers that I didn't even recognise that it was Manhattan.

Cheers

D

HarjTT

Thnaks! I really didn't think the empire state building shot would come out. I did it all handheld at ISO800 on my 10D. I was pretty happy overall with it. I agree about the towers not being there. :cry It was eerie walking around ground zero.

James

ziggy53

James,

Excellent work! Perfect compositions! Perfect exposures!

Just amazing. ("Just" being an understatement.)

Thanks,

ziggy53

Angelo

James:

Nice to have you back and what a fantastic, stunning reentry. Wow!

nwilkins

Hi James,

Good to see you posting again! Your shots are incredibly beautiful as usual.

How's your little girl doing? Growing like a weed I'll bet!

I had a chance to venture out of Dallas to NYC the first weekend of March and here's what I was able to capture: http://www.pbase.com/nwilkins/new_york_city . What a photo op NYC is. I think my favorite shooting location was Top of the Rock (tallest bldg. in the Rockefeller Ctr. complex). You can take a tripod up there though I didn't. Glad you had some good weather. It was 24 degrees when I was there with a windchill of 9!!!!!!!

You need to meet up with Jerry, Craig, Karen and myself soon for a Texas reunion.

n

jamesl

nwilkins wrote:

Hi James,

Good to see you posting again! Your shots are incredibly beautiful as usual.

How's your little girl doing? Growing like a weed I'll bet!

I had a chance to venture out of Dallas to NYC the first weekend of March and here's what I was able to capture: http://www.pbase.com/nwilkins/new_york_city . What a photo op NYC is. I think my favorite shooting location was Top of the Rock (tallest bldg. in the Rockefeller Ctr. complex). You can take a tripod up there though I didn't. Glad you had some good weather. It was 24 degrees when I was there with a windchill of 9!!!!!!!

You need to meet up with Jerry, Craig, Karen and myself soon for a Texas reunion.

n

Hi Nancy! Nice to see you around. Looks like we didn't miss each other by too much in NYC. I can't believe the weather changed that much. It was beautiful while we were there. We left at the right time, though, because it snowed the next day. We actually went up to the top of the Roc too. What a view! I liked it much better than the empire state building. Also, there was no line at all.

Your gallery looks great! Looks like we went to just about the same places. :

Ellen is doing wonderful. Getting bigger and bigger every morning. Soon, she'll be asking for the guys too the car. :cry

I'd definately like to have a reunion with you guys. I don't get many chances to shoot Dallas, so I'd love to get out. Just email me.

Take care,

James

grimace

Beautiful Work!!!