Re: PESO: Outside Zabar's, New York City

2007-03-28 Thread ann sanfedele
Rick Womer wrote: Long time, no PESO; it has been a difficult month. In the middle of said month we took a short trip to New York. A few blocks from our hotel was Zabars, the famous New York gourmet shop. I was wandering about with my camera an hour past closing time. Only an hour? How late

Re: PESO: Outside Zabar's, New York City

2007-03-28 Thread Rick Womer
Thanks, Ann! This was taken about 10; I think Zabar's closes at 9. --- ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Womer wrote: Long time, no PESO; it has been a difficult month. In the middle of said month we took a short trip to New York. A few blocks from our hotel was Zabars, the

RE: PESO: Outside Zabar's, New York City

2007-03-28 Thread Rick Womer
Beautiful shot, Markus. I hate being up that early, though! Rick --- Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Walt I got a cityscape shot early with some very strange partly banding at ISO 400! but the shot was heavy underexposed. I take most of my night city photos with a -2 exposure

Re: PESO: Outside Zabar's, New York City

2007-03-28 Thread ann sanfedele
Rick Womer wrote: Thanks, Ann! This was taken about 10; I think Zabar's closes at 9. that's scary - I wonder what was happening elsewhere that kept That area almost empty for the shot of yours - was it bitter cold? was it Christmas? ann --- ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick

RE: PESO: Outside Zabar's, New York City

2007-03-28 Thread Rick Womer
Markus, I had to wait to get home to look up the EXIF data. The lens was at 23mm for this shot. Actually, shooting through the window doesn't make it much clearer that this is a food store, because what one sees is cash registers, shopping bags, and miscellaneous merchandise. I'm quite pleased

Re: PESO: Outside Zabar's, New York City

2007-03-28 Thread Rick Womer
Ann, March 13 at about 9pm. A very comfortable evening, too. Dunno where the crowds were. Rick --- ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that's scary - I wonder what was happening elsewhere that kept That area almost empty for the shot of yours - was it bitter cold? was it Christmas?

Re: PESO: Outside Zabar's, New York City

2007-03-28 Thread ann sanfedele
Rick Womer wrote: Ann, March 13 at about 9pm. A very comfortable evening, too. Dunno where the crowds were. Rick lol - I bet they were all inside watching college basketball! March madness! ann --- ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that's scary - I wonder what was happening

RE: PESO: Outside Zabar's, New York City

2007-03-27 Thread Markus Maurer
Hi Walt I got a cityscape shot early with some very strange partly banding at ISO 400! but the shot was heavy underexposed. I take most of my night city photos with a -2 exposure correction on the K10D for the highlights. A recent panorama shot made out of 3 photos with the Pentax A24mm (and

RE: PESO: Outside Zabar's, New York City

2007-03-27 Thread Markus Maurer
Hi Rick I would have preferred a different angle here to show a bit more of the shops inside and loose the distortion on the left side. Zabar looks more like an electronic shop from the shopping windows, I had expected to see lots of fine and expensive food from your description. Was this photo