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CITY LIGHTS


CITY LIGHTS
Photo Information
Copyright: Fred NEF (Freddie) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1441 W: 108 N: 1155] (6323)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-04
Categories: Daily Life, Transportation, Architecture, Nocturnal
Camera: Canon PowerShot A640
Exposure: f/3.5, 1/100 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-04-30 4:00
Viewed: 572
Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
CITY LIGHTS, Time Square
Banners, neon signs, and billboards light up New York City's Times Square in central Manhattan. The square is home to the Broadway theatre district.

Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Times Square consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and West 53rd Streets from south to north (40.75659° N 73.98626° W), making up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan.

Like Red Square in Moscow, Champs-Elysées in Paris, Trafalgar Square in London, or Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Times Square has achieved the status of an iconic world landmark and has become a symbol of its home city. Times Square is principally defined by its lighted and animated advertisements.

-Wiki

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Composition:
POV: island in the street
Time/Weather: 10:10pm/1°C, showers
Exposure Time: 1/101 dalmatians
F-Stop: f/3.5
Focal Length: 17342/1000 mm
Flash: no flash

Pp work:
1. add canvass on the right side
2. stretch the whole pic a bit to make the Virgin Records sign more noticeable.
3. add a morning shot pic to LG billboard's right for blue coloring
4. merge layers
5. sharpen
6. crop at the top to compose the pic, subtracting too much white light from LG billboard
7. resize

Quote of the Day:
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
-Brooks Anderson
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Critiques [Translate]

really a good crop
very interesting colourful shot
tfs
M

Hi fred:
Great capture of the street life and night life:)
good exposures and details all the way.
David

Hi Fred,
Excellent nocturnal! Great street colours; an attractive posting my friend! TFS.
Hans

Postcard quality photo! Good lights and action.
Cheers
Otto

Nice city. I love the colors and when I look at this I can hear the traffic!
Nice job,
Shelby

fantastic sharpness and clarity with no OE for suh bright lights,, TFS!

  • Great 
  • clic Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 758 W: 0 N: 206] (4714)
  • [2007-05-07 20:12]
  • [+]

Merhaba Fred
Your pp technique is flawless and all highlights look so natural!
This is a fine depiction of a busy city at night.
Nice work!
Robert

  • Great 
  • nur40 Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 53 W: 0 N: 22] (253)
  • [2007-10-15 15:57]
  • [+]

Excellent capture, very energetic and full of life
Thanks for sharing it
Best

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