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With such a wide angle lens, you had to open the door, right ?

I like this perspective !

Were the towers high enough to be visible from here ?

It surely would have been a nice picture with the towers ...

Hello, Peter. Thank you, I appreciate your compliments.

The ratings could seem low because these pictures were posted when the rating system freely allowed notes from 1 to 10. So the "average" notation was around 5-6. Now the average is higher.

Maybe people are very used to see too much pictures of NYC. I think the major audience in photo.net comes from US, which could explain why some of my Paris pictures have more success than my best NY shots. People are submerged by NY and WTC pictures ... they probably react like me when I see pictures of the Eiffel Tower ! ;-)

About Times Square, the film is just a Reala exposed and developped normally at 100 ISO. But when I work by night, I often largely overexpose the negative.

The "grain" effect is probably dued to the sharpening method I used by software (with The Gimp), as much as the fact I use a filmscanner, wich shows much more detail of the film than a simple flatbed scanner.

Also, I work a lot numerically the contrast of my pictures. This could be a further reason why the grain appears like that.

Hello, Daniel.

How did you meter this scene ?

Matrix metering ? Spot metering with compensation shift ? Center weighted metering ?

Very beautiful ...

The sun was just "above" the picture, which does not produce a completely black sky. To obtain a dark sky, you have to shoot 90° from the sun.

The sky would have been really black with HIE infrared film (see my folder Infrared for examples).

The effect is visible on some other pictures of this folder too.

... but beautiful !

Well thought.

Charles, for a version with less sky, look here Manhattan sunset (3).

... the problem was in the processing of this picture. I made some corrections and uploaded a better version.

Thanks for the remark.

Mark, the blurred people effect is dued to a "long" exposure while shooting (2 seconds).

Thanks for the congratulations.

Wonderful ! I would just enhance the dark parts like this:

Wow ! I love this panorama ! Wonderful colors !

I would just improve brightness in the dark parts (see my proposition, a gamma enhancing on a quick & dirty selection of dark parts).

Nice reflections in the water. Without them, the photo wouldn't be the same ...

Very calm water. Nice place.

I like the composition and the light. Here is a proposal: I've darkened the picture to have a better gradient on the sky, converted in black&white and gave it a sepia tone.

Nice colors, but I would change the contrast (like this) to enhance them, and crop the bottom part wich I find unuseful. I would then crop the upper part to equilibrate the composition (see my proposition).

Palais Royal ?

J'hésite entre la surex ou la sous-ex ... dommage

Hey ! The picture is flipped left to right !

The twins should be on the left side ...

;-)

Hello.

Did you have any problem to use tripods on the top

of the Empire State Building ?

I'd like to do the same picture.