Photo Sharing. Your Photos Look Better Here. | SmugMug : field : This was taken from the south end of the Great Lawn in Central Park (not to be confused with the Sheep Meadow just north of 59th Street, which is far more familiar to out-of-town visitors). The view is looking south, though you can't see the Manhattan skyline from this perspective. Indeed, if you didn't know better, you might not even think you were in NYC at all; this could be a bucolic country scene somewhere out in Middle America (also known to us New Yorkers as "the Red States"). This was a handheld shot, with the camera resting in a reasonably stable fashion on the top of a fence-post. It's an HDR blend of five images, and I was fortunate that none of the people under the willow tree moved in any noticeable fashion. Note: this photo was published as an illustration in an Aug 2009 Squidoo blog titled "Willow Jewelries, Perfume, and Furnitures ( http://www.squidoo.com/willow-tree-gifts ) ." It was also published as an illustration in an undated (Dec 2009) Mahalo blog titled "Willow Tree" at www-dot-mahalo-dot-com-slash-willow-dash-tree Moving into 2010, a highly cropped version of this photo was published in a Feb 4, 2010 blog titled "La courte vie d’un jpg ( http://www.korben.info/la-courte-vie-dun-jpg.html ) ." And the photo was published in a Nov 19, 2010 blog titled "Willow tree “tree” images “tree” photos ( http://4sdd.com/gallery/willow-tree-tree-images-tree-photos ) " Moving into 2012, the photo was published in an undated (late Jun 2012) blog titled "20 Great Pictures of Central Park NYC ( http://www.photographyblogger.net/20-great-pictures-of-central-park-nyc/ ) ." ******************* I tried an HDR (high dynamic range) photo once a year ago, but for some reason never pursued it. But it seems that more of and more of the "interesting" photos that I see on Flickr are HDR shots, so I decided to give it another try. The first of these HDR shots were taken from the rooftop of my apartment building at sunset, on the Sunday evening of 4th of July weekend. Subsequent shots have been taken out on the street, from the terrace of my apartment at night, and walking through Central Park at mid-day... I still have a *lot* to learn about this stuff, but even as a first attempt I'm staggered by what the tonal-mapping software programs (Photomatix, in my case) are capable of doing...

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Waterfalls, Mt Field National Park , Tasmania

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