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Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights
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Challenge: Triptych II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Nikon D2H
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Date: Apr 28, 2007
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 640
Shutter: varied
Galleries: Cityscape, Diptych / Triptych
Date Uploaded: Apr 28, 2007

 Taken from the Brooklyn promenade: a view of manhattan. Slow exposures + no tripod = lots of trial and error to get a shot that works... sigh

PP: heavy curves work, some D & B'ing, selective color to raise saturation while toning down the yellow from the incandescent lampposts, Neat Image, USM, neat image, USM, save for web...

**New personal best! thanks much for the comments

Statistics
Place: 12 out of 244
Avg (all users): 6.6681
Avg (commenters): 8.0000
Avg (participants): 6.5096
Avg (non-participants): 6.8000
Views since voting: 3727
Views during voting: 379
Votes: 229
Comments: 30
Favorites: 6 (view)

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 02/25/2009 03:05:06 AM
Awesome shot!
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 01/08/2008 02:11:40 AM
This is way cool and way good. And very awesome for handheld, though I think perfect pristine crisp sharpness is often overrated here. These have life. I really like the motion in the bottom one, too.
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 07/05/2007 02:55:16 PM
Great idea, 3 really great shots put together, favorited
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 06/22/2007 12:51:16 PM
Love the lights and slow shutter effects on these
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 05/07/2007 04:06:59 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Firstly i'd like to congratulate you on your 12th place and your new personal best, these three shots certainly deserve all the praise and high votes.

Composition
Commenting on the layout first, I really like the way you have laid these out, especially the fact that the panorama is positioned in the middle and seperates the other two images of equal sizes.
All three images have been composed extremely well, my favourite being the bottom of the three for the unique view point, I really love the angles. I also like the tight crop on the panorama which helps to keep it an interesting image with little dead space. In the top one you have obviously thought a lot about the position of the tree as it has been used effectively to frame the picture. If anything it is slightly too overpowering and detracts from other interest in the scene.

Lighting
I can imagine all three of these were pretty hard to both meter and capture effectively. Starting with the bottom one, I like the orange lights to the left as they tend to guide my eye along the image. I'm not so keen on the lighting to the right as it looks slighty overblown and quite distracting. The middle one is pretty much spot on but seems to suffer from a fair amount of background noise which causes some of the light to look fairly un-natural and distorted in some places.
The top one is really nice and almost looks like a painting, in fact all three of them look fairly arty and this is definitely a good thing.

Conclusion
All three of these have strengths and weaknesses, the bottom one suffers from some harsh lighting and I'm not too keen on the person being included in the scene, I know it is meant to show motion and activity but it does nothing for me as it is slightly too blurred to add any real impact.
The middle one appears to suffer from a fair amount of background noise which is a real shame as it causes the lights to become slightly distorted. The top one is probably the strongest in terms of technicality but is perhaps a little too dark for the amount of detail included in the scene.
The strengths, which have been commented on by other members during voting, have helped to create three great looking images which work harmoniously with one another.

Keep up the great work!
Chris

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/06/2007 05:02:40 PM
Really nice night photos, great lights !
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 05/04/2007 04:51:19 PM
I think a white border or a gray border would have really set this image out from the rest.
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 05/04/2007 06:46:31 AM
I really like the top two panels, but I'm not so sure of the last one. Maybe it is a little like the first with the street lights so prominent.

All the panels have nice rich saturated colours though, and the whole shot is still eye catching, so good work
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 05/04/2007 01:05:27 AM
Very nice photos with good processing. I think this one will do very well.
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 05/03/2007 09:54:06 PM
Some GREAT images, excellent work! I'm looking forward to viewing your other works. Good luck 9.
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 05/03/2007 08:39:43 PM
Very nice, really jumps off the screen. Looks like a good night for photography.
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 05/03/2007 07:12:24 PM
very effective
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 05/02/2007 07:00:05 AM
Great set - Lovely lighting - These work very well together. Would make a great postcard. Well done 10
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 05/01/2007 01:11:30 PM
WOW!!! this is excellent... nicely done!
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 04/30/2007 07:30:59 PM
Very well done!
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 04/30/2007 07:26:33 PM
Very nice!8
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 04/30/2007 06:23:31 PM
Very dynamic photo and use lighting in challenge....8
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 04/30/2007 04:52:28 PM
Lovely night charm.
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 04/30/2007 04:36:40 PM
Nice
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 04/30/2007 03:50:00 PM
My first 10. Love the haloes and lines.
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 04/30/2007 11:47:54 AM
Nice feel of "evening" in this one! Pretty colors, as well! *7*
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 04/30/2007 09:30:36 AM
Very pretty indeed. I like the format and processing. The over the side and shutter speed on the promenade shot is especially creative. 10.
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 04/30/2007 08:26:09 AM
Great photo's, nicely done.
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 04/30/2007 07:16:15 AM
Nice package of images. All of them could stand on their own quite well and they work together as a package also. Great job!
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 04/30/2007 04:49:13 AM
Truly lovely, particularly like the thinner photo in the middle of the 'sandwhich' and the top photo is BEAUTIFUL!
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 04/30/2007 04:32:03 AM
Very nice 7
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 04/30/2007 03:36:29 AM
Beautiful.... and colorful...
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 04/30/2007 12:58:26 AM
Great night images. Good stitching.
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 04/29/2007 08:20:36 PM
would make a great postcard...nice and vivid 8
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 04/29/2007 08:07:12 PM
Wonderful rich tones. I like this a lot. I'm scoring high and no I do NOT know who took this photo.
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