Now THIS is the scene I'd been waiting for a long time-"auto art" ala street lighting
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Now THIS is the scene I'd been waiting for a long time-"auto art" ala street lighting
Haven't posted on this board in a long long time. Hope you enjoy what I have on my return...
So I'd been hoping to take some pix in-front of a colorful restaurant in NYC [Rolf's], where the lights from the diner across the street [Lyric Coffee Shop] make for an incredible reflection @ the right angle. I live in LI, but have a place in NYC that my wife stays in almost 1/2 the year; I'm not in NYC often tho so odds are low for me to be in the right place @ the right time.
Serendipity occurred this evening; I had several spots in NYC in-front of Rolf's all to myself... at least enough spots so no other cars were in the frame. (I did chase one away that wanted to park behind my car... well, chased isn't correct -- I asked nicely and there were plenty of other spots a few dozen feet down the road
) The color on the car is from the reflected neon sign of the Lyric Diner behind & to the right from where I was taking the photos.
These are processed 'darker' then I'd been doing previously, because I took care to make a note in my head of exactly how my eyes saw it, and these are as best I can remember "true to life" in light balance. Hope you enjoy.
(you can click the image to load where I posted the image, then click the link on the bottom of the image to get the full-rez originals if you'd like; well, not "unaltered original", but rather post-processed original )
(28mm, f/8, 10sec, ISO100)
(33mm, f/11, 25sec, ISO100)
What I'm particularly jazzed about is the detail I got @ night-time. Such as the safety glass wire visible in the window behind the security screen that's glowing green ( you have to look @ the full-rez 10 Meg Pix to see it ). The Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 is a fantastic performer And in the last image, getting the foreground subject detail while still having enough DOF so the painting on the wall, and all the wall texture also in vivid detail. Hey, I'm one to never stop down, but I did tonight ... and this was a night shot!
One thing I KNOW tho, is I need an off camera flash.
So I'd been hoping to take some pix in-front of a colorful restaurant in NYC [Rolf's], where the lights from the diner across the street [Lyric Coffee Shop] make for an incredible reflection @ the right angle. I live in LI, but have a place in NYC that my wife stays in almost 1/2 the year; I'm not in NYC often tho so odds are low for me to be in the right place @ the right time.
Serendipity occurred this evening; I had several spots in NYC in-front of Rolf's all to myself... at least enough spots so no other cars were in the frame. (I did chase one away that wanted to park behind my car... well, chased isn't correct -- I asked nicely and there were plenty of other spots a few dozen feet down the road
) The color on the car is from the reflected neon sign of the Lyric Diner behind & to the right from where I was taking the photos.These are processed 'darker' then I'd been doing previously, because I took care to make a note in my head of exactly how my eyes saw it, and these are as best I can remember "true to life" in light balance. Hope you enjoy.
(you can click the image to load where I posted the image, then click the link on the bottom of the image to get the full-rez originals if you'd like; well, not "unaltered original", but rather post-processed original
)(28mm, f/8, 10sec, ISO100)
(33mm, f/11, 25sec, ISO100)
What I'm particularly jazzed about is the detail I got @ night-time. Such as the safety glass wire visible in the window behind the security screen that's glowing green ( you have to look @ the full-rez 10 Meg Pix to see it ). The Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 is a fantastic performer And in the last image, getting the foreground subject detail while still having enough DOF so the painting on the wall, and all the wall texture also in vivid detail. Hey, I'm one to never stop down, but I did tonight ... and this was a night shot!
One thing I KNOW tho, is I need an off camera flash.
