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ctfchallenge | all galleries >> Challenge 74: The Golden Hours >> Challenge 74: Eligible > * Harlem
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06-FEB-2005 Lonnit Rysher

* Harlem

New York City

Canon EOS 10D ,Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX Fisheye
1/90s f/8.0 at 15.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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alexeig14-Feb-2005 00:44
Great diagonal and colors
Guest 11-Feb-2005 04:08
Thanks all. For the record, BTW, it's late afternoon. :) ~ Lonnit
ctfchallenge10-Feb-2005 23:26
I didn't see the original, Lonnit, but this one works really well. I've always loved the way the morning light (I'm assuming it's morning) paints the colors of those old buildings, and you've captured it perfectly.

Mary Anne
PhotoNUT 10-Feb-2005 03:51
This crop works really well.
ctfchallenge08-Feb-2005 20:45
Lonnit, this is much better. wtg -Abstract
ctfchallenge08-Feb-2005 17:06
I like it even more now than I thought I would. rich
Canon DSLR Challenge08-Feb-2005 14:06
Thanks. I do really prefer it. This is that it's gotten to be a fairly small part of the original. It was shot with the fish, and thru the dirty car windshield to boot - how's THAT for a testimonial to the quality of the lens!!!! The original even included a bit of dashboard and the rear corner of the car parked in front of us on our side of the street. I'd cropped so much on the first version already. I guess I didn't want to push it further, but I knew I should have - obviously. :) ~ Lonnit
Sigurd 08-Feb-2005 14:02
Yes, looks great! Another alternative that could be interesting is to crop the bottom even more, right where the leftmost building meets the sky so you get a diagonal running from the top right corner to bottom left corner with two equal triangles, but we may be closer to an excersise in geometry than photography then :) Anyway, I quite like the dark edge at the bottom that sort of cuts off the light.
Nugar08-Feb-2005 13:00
Yup, the croping looks much better now
ctfchallenge08-Feb-2005 04:11
and by popular demand.... the new improved version! :) Thanks for the input guys. By the light of a new day, and more time to play with the crop, I'm much happier with it now. :) I hope you are too! ~ Lonnit
ctfchallenge07-Feb-2005 21:30
I really like it Lonnit but (IMHO)I too would crop out 1/3 of the bottom and to the edge of building on right giving it the impression that the buildings continue off to infinity. rich
ctfchallenge07-Feb-2005 17:55
You're seeing it right. The bottom half is quite dark with prety much only the car windows visible. I did go back and fourth over and over on the crop before posting it. I couldn't decide whether or not to crop out the bottom. After several flip-flops I went with this. I sort of liked the suggestion of the cars at the bottom, otherwise it just seemed like the buildings were sitting in the middle of nothing. I liked the contrast of the darkness against the rich, saturated colors. The dark also added some mystery and interest in trying to see what's there. I guess I got hooked on the mystery in the shadows on my last self portrait! LOL! ~ Lonnit
Sigurd 07-Feb-2005 12:38
The light really brings out the nice colours of these buildings. I think I'd try to crop it quite a bit closer though. The bottom half is too dark on my monitor but from what I see, it doesn't look that interesting anyway so I think I'd cut away most of the bottom half. Then cut a bit on all three other sides to get a nice triangle from the blue sky (cut down to the roof in the upper right corner, to the edge of the last building on the left and cut so the 'notch' on the top right roof is removed) to get a panoramic format with a top triangle of blue and a bottom triangle with those lovely warm colours.