Assignment: Reflections - "Central Park West"

[Gus Cobos]

Assignment: Reflections - “Central Park West”

This is New York City’s Central Park from the west side of the lake. The landscape was painted with a Nikon D50 using a Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D wide angle lens.

Image Solution:
focal length @ 20mm / exposure mode @ aperture priority / matrix metering / ISO @ 400 /1/125 sec - f/11 / exposure comp @ 0EV / white balance @ auto / AF Mode @ AF–S /color mode @ sRGB / tone comp @ +1 degree / hue adjustment @ +2 degrees / saturation factor @ +2 degrees / lighting solution – ambient light / support platform – hand held.

Comments greatly appreciated…:cool:

[CliveTonge]

Hi Gus,
another beautiful picture. I keep getting distracted by the red (magenta?) cast to some of the clouds in the sky. I don't see it in the reflection. My first thought was that you may have been a bit heavy with the saturation, but I didn't see it except as a whole, which really confused me. Then I noticed the red, after that I kept seeing the red.
I think I would crop out some of the sky.
Take care,
Clive

[Alfred Forns]

Love the perspective Gus !!!

I went into PS to straighten the image using the ruler tool and got a surprise, it was off by .11 but no to the side that I thought. !!!! I figured it would tilt left but it went right !! Interesting !!

btw anyone not familiar with the ruler to straighten out an image just say so and we will post a short tutorial right here.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Might be interesting to do an HDR shot out of this which you can do from one image.

[Gus Cobos]

Mr. Forns,
you are absoultly correct a .11 CW rotation...I did not see that...:eek::D:cool:

Clive, good catch on the magenta in the clouds...:)

Thank you my brothers for the input...point taken...:cool:

[Alfred Forns]

... yes Gus but I thought it was the other way :)

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

Nice composition, I like how the tall building is dominating in the reflection, it helps with adding symmetry in the image even though the reflection wasn't sharp. The clouds add dynamic feeling to the image, agree with Clive about over saturating the clouds, but the rest of the image looks fine.

By the way I am interested in the ruler straighten tutorial.

[Buddy scherr]

Hi Gus,
When I first looked at this post I knew, without looking at the name, that it was one of yours. I'm recognizing Gus Cobos pictures now just from the style. I think that's a compliment.

[Lance Peters]

Our brothers and sisters are getting sharper Gus - cant slip much by them ;)

Love the composition and colours.