This is such an iconic place, I was dying to capture it. This time I used a tripod to get the subject (restaurant) perfectly focused and then waited for some cars to get their lights to accentuate the scene. With a long exposure of 1 sec, the is no trace of the cars, but the lights are kept.

Part of the transportation system, the Tram is not well known by many New Yorkers. I have the privilege to have it as part of my commute every other day. The lights right behind the tram are from the Queensboro Bridge.

I wasn’t looking for an HDR today, but came to get another one. I was trying to get an environment type portrait from this electricity company in Queens. And thought some of the more traditional photos came quite well, I decided to upload this HDR one, since this blog is actually short of HDRs. This time the processing was a bit more involved. I started correcting the light in Lightroom to bring the pink sky back, then I moved the three images to Photomatix, and did some minor corrections in Lightroom.

A new HDR image was long due. This one was shot on Houston St. at dawn using three shot, each 1 stop apart and processed with Photomatix.

Returning to night, cars, movement and back to repetitions. 1st Avenue is always packed with cars, be it day or night, and tonight was not an exception.

Today we temporally switch gears to show this daylight image. I new I was going to upload an image tonight, so I decided to look for something to shoot while daylight was still available. I came across this church, old style, with a new glass skyscraper as background, that some of you will recognize. Love contrasts!

Shifted today to a different area of Manhattan, Madison Ave, upper east side. Chose to picture the famous Chrysler Building using the same technique I used yesterday for the car entering the parking garage: change the zoom level while pressing the shutter release button. I left the Chrysler in the middle of the frame so that it wouldn’t be affected as much by the zoom move. The image you see was cropped on the top to align the top of the Chrysler with the top third of the frame.