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The sun is setting and reflecting off glass building. The Sheep Meadow lawn in Central Park is mostly deserted because of a storm coming providing a dramatic scene of vidid clouds and color. New York City
These large meadows in the Ottenby nature reserve have been used as grazing lands for generations. They are also home to many bird species as they come here to breed. For this reason, the meadows are a protected wildlife area and off limits for humans from the beginning of April until the end of August. It is a rather unique place!
I think there‘s not much to say about this pic. On a sheep meadow I saw this sheep laying around. It was super relaxed and didn’t really care about me running around with my camera. But only moments after I took this photo, a helicopter flew by and all sheep ran away to hide themselves.
- Shot with Nikon D5100 -
f/5.6
92.0 mm
1/320 sec
ISO 200
Edited in PS Lightroom 5, PS Elements 12 and Color Efex Pro 4.
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Note: this photo was published in a 2009 Squidoo blog titled "Sunscreen." It was also published on Wikimedia Commons, with the same caption that I used, on Jan 30, 2010. And it was published in a May 12, 2010 blog titled "Free camping in Central Park this summer: NYC deals." It was also published in an Aug 18, 2010 blog titled "Why Introverts Like to Be Alone." And it was published in an Aug 20, 2010 blog titled "Très Trivia! Are You in the Know?"
Moving into 2011, the photo was published in a Jul 19, 2011 Matador blog titled "Camp for free in a New York City park this summer." And it was published in an Aug 19, 2011 blog titled "Going solo in NYC." It was also published in an undated (late Dec 2011) blog titled "セントラルパークは、南北に4キロメートル、東西は800mの広大な公園。"
Moving into 2012, the photo was published in an Oct 24, 2012 blog titled "Przekazał 100 mln dol. na Central Park."
Note: A large percentage of my "landscape" photos (including the ones in this set) are now copyright-protected, and are not available for downloads and free use. You can view them here in Flickr, but if you would like prints, enlargements, framed copies, and other variations, please visit my SmugMug "NYC HDR" gallery by clicking here.
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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 (including this one) have been taken out on the street, from the terrace of my apartment at night, and walking through Central Park at mid-day...
This photo is one of a group of ten that I took in the "Sheep Meadow" area at the south end of Central Park. I knew that the trees, the grass, the buildings, and the sky/clouds would be stationary, and I figured that I could pick a time/scene where most, if not all, of the picnickers and sunbathers were reasonably stationary. But there were always a few people in motion, especially the young kids; and though the "ghosting" effect of their movement is sometimes interesting, I think I've concluded that it gets annoying after a while. But aside from that, it is possible to take these HDR sequences (which, in the case of these Sheep Meadow shots, involve the merging of 5 separate images into one composite) in a handheld fashion, without a tripod.
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...
51 NYC blocks, north and south....4 blocks east and west, the center of Manhattan, the playground of the rich and poor.......
Beautiful and majestic,
NEW YORK - AUGUST 2: Aerial view of Central Park on August 2, 2012 in New York City. Central Park is a National Historic Landmark, and one of the largest urban public parks in the world.
July 2014,
Canon EOS 6D,
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM.
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Sheep Meadow in Central Park, New York after snowstorm "Nemo." February, 2013.