Crossroads of the World
Jun, 2012Views
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akhtarkhan
October 20, 2012
Splendid HDR work, great image, brilliant capture. Congrats on the feature.
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melodyesweetin
October 20, 2012
What a great shot..........I love it!!! Favorite & "Exceptional Contrast" awarded :))) MS
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snowdon
October 21, 2012
A superb photograph in the HDR genre. It is a pleasure to look at congratulations on your feature.
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Location
Times Square, NYC.Time
It was probably around mid-day.Lighting
The shy that day was actually pretty overcast. The sky you see was shot a few days later at Coney Island. The overcast gave the landscape even light throughout the entire canvas so nothing is shadowed or blown out.Equipment
Hand held Canon 5d mkII with a Canon 17-40LInspiration
This was my first visit to Times Square and I was just in awe at the spectacle of the whole place. Luckily it was November so there weren't as many people as usual so I didn't think of it as the butt crack of the city that I do now. But I wanted to capture the magnificence of it all and it was just by luck that the guy in the center just happened to start crossing the street. A lot of people ask me if that's me in the photo. I simply reply, if that was me, how would I take the photo.Editing
This is a stitched HDR pano. 3 shots with 3 bracketed exposures each. I edit the photos first in Lightroom, then do the HDR toning in Photomatix. Then I do further sharpening, color correction, etc in Photoshop. I then composited in the sky which is from a different HDR pano that I shot a few days after this one.In my camera bag
On a normal basis I have a Canon 5d mkII, Canon 24-70L and a Canon 17-40L.Feedback
When you're shooting multi panel HDR you need to shoot fast. Set your camera to the auto bracketing feature, find out where the edges of your canvas will be then shoot from left to right as fast as you can. I shot this handheld, very on the fly. The longer you wait between shots, the harder it will be to align them. You also have to be very detailed when you're de-ghosting in Photomatix. Sometimes ghosting is unavoidable but if you shoot fast enough you'll have an easier time when you get back to your computer.
