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In A NY Half-Minute
In A NY Half-Minute
SherwinJames


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: 30 Seconds or More (Basic Editing III*)
Camera: Nikon D70s
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: NYC, NY, USA
Date: Jun 15, 2006
Aperture: f/29
ISO: 200
Shutter: 30
Galleries: Cityscape, Urban
Date Uploaded: Jun 18, 2006

 An extended look at a subway station in NY.

Post-processing:
- RAW conversion
- Noise reduction
- B&W conversion using Channel Mixer
- Duotones adjustment
- Resize
- JPEG conversion
- Output sharpening

Statistics
Place: 35 out of 170
Avg (all users): 6.1797
Avg (commenters): 7.2593
Avg (participants): 5.8472
Avg (non-participants): 6.2564
Views since voting: 1407
Views during voting: 635
Votes: 384
Comments: 30
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/27/2006 12:45:56 AM
The exposure allows the people to exert varying degrees of presence on the scene, and that's really the making of the story here ... it's as if this is a play (by Neil Simon, I suppose) or a movie (Woody Allen), in which there are major roles, supporting roles and bit parts. And the charm of it is that the contribution to the story is not proportional to the size of the part; several of the fleeting minor players actually have much more to say than some of those who remain on stage throughout but offer us nothing memorable. That's why the story had to be set in NY and not in LA, where this kind of witty inversion of status would not be tolerated - by the performers or by the audience. 10.
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 06/26/2006 08:55:49 AM
The image seems a bit bright to me, maybe a smaller aperture or some ND filters.
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 06/25/2006 10:46:20 PM
Unique image (so far) in this challenge. I really like the subject and the desturation of the image.
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 06/25/2006 06:22:37 PM
I like the idea very much and I think its a bit overexposed. 7
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 06/25/2006 04:37:36 PM
Nice sepia touch. Love the ghosting.
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 06/25/2006 01:02:51 PM
Cool photo and I like the title.
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 06/25/2006 09:23:49 AM
My 10 in this challenge. I wanted to do something similar but ran out of time. Excellently captured. A great sense of time passing. Best in the challenge.
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 06/25/2006 05:08:37 AM
Your photo truely conveys the passing of half-a-minute and the sepia enhances the theme. Great!
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 06/24/2006 02:29:24 AM
good time passing feeling
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 06/23/2006 09:51:03 PM
I like this in that some of the people appear to have sat still for 30+ seconds, and with others, they are just a ghostly outline. And I love the duotone treatment.
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 06/23/2006 07:29:19 PM
Looks old fashion.. Probably the colors.. Like them and I like the life in the picture :o)
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 06/23/2006 06:37:14 PM
this is an interesting concept. The people are almost too clear though--I hardly noticed half of them at first glance.
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 06/23/2006 06:15:10 PM
awesome photo.....
 06/23/2006 01:42:49 PM
More contrast would have been even better
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 06/23/2006 12:53:19 PM
Love the title. Wish I could see more people and in more detail.
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 06/23/2006 08:28:20 AM
very very cool, like the sepia tones a lot. I wish the tones had a bit more punch, they seem a bit flat at the moment
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 06/23/2006 02:46:07 AM
very interesting
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 06/22/2006 09:46:45 PM
very cool motion! 10
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 06/22/2006 08:40:28 PM
I love the feel of this shot! Great job!
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 06/22/2006 03:58:32 PM
I really like the concept of this photo, and the sepia treatment, it adds to the timelessness of the photo. The only change I would make would be to crop out the over blown sky in the upper left. It pulls my eye up and away.
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 06/22/2006 01:29:29 PM
Meets Challenge:2
Aesthetics:1
Technical: 1
Wow: 0
Originality:1
Total Score:5
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 06/21/2006 09:25:41 PM
adding sepia made this photo - it could have been taken 50years ago. I like that there are no true modern day images
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 06/21/2006 09:20:43 PM
the idea is very good. I remember a similar shot of an italian photographer shotted near a church (the shot today is on a calendar).I think that in your shot there is too much light and too much speed, the human shadows aren't well defined. I rate 6.
best regards
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 06/21/2006 07:49:04 PM
Very nice!!
 06/21/2006 06:35:04 PM
Busy place.
 06/21/2006 06:19:37 PM
i like the color choice. nice eye.
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 06/21/2006 04:05:49 PM
Black and white works really well here. Good job.
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 06/21/2006 10:09:20 AM
Fun sense of movement. Like ghosts passing through. 7
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 06/21/2006 10:04:27 AM
Nice shot and idea, like the motion blurring with a couple of people standing still there. The blown out sky is a bit of an attention stealer and if I had taken this, I would have framed this tighter and left out the sky. Like the b/w conversion, nice tonal range.
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 06/21/2006 01:47:53 AM
Great way to show the hustle of the big city.
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