A set from NYC last week.

[Sneezy Beltran]

Lower Manhattan shot from New Jersey (the 2 buildings in the center are the replacements for the WTC)



5th Avenue Subway



People, lot's of 'em



Panning Taxi



Street Artist (this painting sold for $2700)



$7lb



Naked Cowboy



Less fortunate



Dog's eye view



Grand Central



Brooklyn Bridge (shot from he DUMBO area)



Fish Market (China Town)



Flat Iron



Apple Store



Human Stoplight



Sexy Sax Man



Street Vendor (in a sweet ass lion shirt)



GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!



Central Park



Pay to Play



49th



Ghost Fishin'



Thinkin'



Dreamin'



Bronx Graffiti




Yankee Stadium



30 Rock



All things that are good....



Grass Fairies



NYT



NQR



St. Vincent's



Empire State of Mind



Melting Pot



NYC Hotdog



Redbull Supporters



Fresh Fish

[MM]

Awesome pics man!! MM

[SkeeterJohn]

Stunning work wish i could be 1/2 as good someday

[ChiefManyRises]

Way cool. I really enjoy seeing your talent.

[bassindon2]

Street Fairies

Looks to me like some one is about to be called for offside if that ball is playeto wardsds him.

By the way, fantastic shots of the people and city. Very nice.

[hunt22-250]

Great pic's!!!!!!!!

[RoadrashPaul]

Awesome shots as always Eric Would you mind posting the original of this shot. I am really digging it and I wanted to see just how much postop you did to it. Also my computer wont let me see exif data. Do you remember what you shot this on?

[pickupman66]

Absolutely Incredible. I was ni awe all the way thru them. that first one is almost like a painting... Truly frameable artwork you have made here. I need to come visit and tag along with ya!

[Sneezy Beltran]

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Awesome shots as always Eric Would you mind posting the original of this shot. I am really digging it and I wanted to see just how much postop you did to it. Also my computer wont let me see exif data. Do you remember what you shot this on?</td></tr></table>

Paul, I'm not on my home computer now, but that was a 7 shot HDR in order to properly expose the skyline and smooth out the water.

All I did in post was add a touch of sharpening, then clipped out the sky since it was blurred from the duration of the shutter, and threw in a properly exposed 5 second shot of just the clouds.

[Sneezy Beltran]

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You know your welcome back anytime man.

[RoadrashPaul]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by Sneezy Beltran &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">

Paul, I'm not on my home computer now, but that was a 7 shot HDR in order to properly expose the skyline and smooth out the water.

All I did in post was add a touch of sharpening, then clipped out the sky since it was blurred from the duration of the shutter, and threw in a properly exposed 5 second shot of just the clouds.</td></tr></table>

Excuse my ignorance but I am not familiar with this. I think I read something about this briefly somwhere but could you just give a basic idea of what it is and how to do it. Is it something you do or is it just a setting and the camera takes care of it?

[Sneezy Beltran]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by RoadrashPaul &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">

Excuse my ignorance but I am not familiar with this. I think I read something about this briefly somwhere but could you just give a basic idea of what it is and how to do it. Is it something you do or is it just a setting and the camera takes care of it?</td></tr></table>

It's not hard at all.

All you do is take 7 shots, adjusting the exposure with each shot, then take all 7 shots, and blend them together in post processing.

I started out with the first shot at -3 exposure (basically everything was black except for the lights. Then just went up the chain -2,-1, properly exposed, +1,+2,+3

Obviously a good tripod is a must since any movement at all would result in a blurry mess.

As you can see, it smoothed out the water (obviously the buildings don't move), but I didn't want the clouds blurred.

So I clipped out the sky from the 7 shot blend, and replaced it with the one properly exposed shot.

I may sound a little difficult, but's it actually quite simple.

[RoadrashPaul]

I see. Doesn't sound bad at all. I can't quit staring at it. It is truly an amazing shot. Thanks for the info. I guess it is finally time to break down and buy Photoshop

[PolarKraft195]

SUPER COOL

[timberland]

Excellent, excellent captures Mr. Cooper.

[pickupman66]

Sneezy... just got an appointment at Wally world on the 29th of june. May have to meet up for a beer!

and do you have a high res of the one you are explaining to Paul? that needs to go into my desktop backgrounds folder.


also, just for grins, what are the exposure params for the properly exposed shot?

[Hooked on Legend]

Great Shots.

[Sneezy Beltran]

For sure, just give me a shout.

I'll email you a semi high res version, can't email a full size file (too big).

Exif data:

Shutter: 15 seconds
Aperture: f/16
Metering: center weighted
Exposure Compensation : -.3 (I do that with all my photos)
Focal length: 24mm
ISO: 160

It should also be known that I was shooting through a 3 stop ND filter.

I shot a few through a 10 stop ND(think welding mask) which required 4-5 minute exposures, but I kept getting a line of haze/fog off the water......would've been sweet if not for that.

[Curt Wilke]

Great shots! Really enjoyed the set.
Curt

[Boondock]

Sweet shoots man! Would love a full sizeof the first to use as my desktop background.