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- amandaw33, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Great pix, wish some of those were desktop sized!
- CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11You guys need to lighten up. I enjoyed the pictures. Maybe if you focused less on hating NYC and looking at the pics themselves you'd see they are pretty nice.
- Toon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Merry Christmas!
- radicaldementia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I live right across the river from NYC and although these pictures are beautiful and have stunning colors, when you look at it in real life, its much more impressive. These pics really don't capture the size of the city. Still very cool though.
- NoBullet2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10You guys need some reading comprehension (especially mercurysquad). He said "ONE OF" the most beautiful cities. ONE. OF.
You dips. - halvertos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9AWK said it best: " I LOVE...NEW YORK CITY! OH YEAH... NEW YORK CITY!"
- doubleblack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Not High Res, Boo!
- mjesuele, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Upper West Side, Tribeca, SoHo, the West Village, Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Forest Hills, Riverdale -- all absolutely gorgeous neighborhoods areas with trees, clean streets, historic houses and other artifacts, ivy-covered walls, brownstones, you name it. Like nature? Central Park is a bit cliche, so hop the F train to Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Oh, you're a beach person? Coney Island, and its authentic Russian neighbor, Brighton Beach should fit that bill and be rather easy on the eyes as well. With NYC, no, it's really NOT AT ALL like, "you walk a block and you see some huge buildings. You walk another block and you see some more. Every corner you turn, it's the same thing."
Midtown Manhattan, the area many outsiders think of when they think of New York, is one of the only parts of the city where that might be true. And don't get me wrong, it is an important part of the city, but even many of us who live in this city don't like it very much.
New York is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. That beauty comes as much from the vitality and richness of everything as it does from any architectural or physical aspects, but that hardly makes it any less real. I'm not gonna go so far as to say it's the most beautiful city in the world, so come on, play along and drop your hyperbole, there is most certainly not ***** garbage everywhere.
You're right, though, the subway is a dungeon. We gotta do something about that. - arielmaidana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah, I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina, but have been in NY, and the buildings are impressive. The view from Roosevelt Island is breath-taking. That's why I hate so much all the NIMBYs here that oppose every single building taller than a few floors.
- lyrs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9It's nothing a touch of Photoshop can't handle.
- AnteChronos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Some of those images also use High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography, which can produce some surreal (and beautiful) results.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging - 19bobbob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6For all those of you who want wallpapers and screen savers of these they're on his website. Find them here:
http://www.arnoldpouteau.com/Wallpaper.html
Aren't I helpful? - AnteChronos, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I've seen some pretty ugly nature, and some very beautiful man-made "monstrosities". It sounds like you have some sort of agenda all tangled up with your sense of beauty, and I certainly pity you for that.
- gharding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I live in Manhattan so I don't exactly get to see the skyline very often, but back in the summer I went to a few rooftop parties in Prospect Heights and that area. The sunset from there is absolutely amazing. You see the low-rises of Brooklyn in the foreground then the water then the amazing skyline of the financial district. Few things remind you of the awesomeness of where you live the way that does.
- thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Reminds me of the ones I took back in October from a sailboat on the Hudson river:
http://flickr.com/photos/hallockfamilyphotos/266817833/in/set-72157594322381981/
I was on a sailboat at night so it was a real challenge to keep the camera still enough through the exposure period. - joerighty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Makes me want to go there.
- BurnTees, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4anyone know if these are available to purchase?
- Chilllllion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3These are some real good shots.
- Dvoid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3From what I can see, the thread is called "Amazing photos of one of the most beautiful cities in the world (Keyword Amazing Photos)"... not "NYC pownz all you other cities. What now, bitch?"
The webpage featured is NOT about how NYC is awesome. It's someone's flickr gallery full of beautiful shots of NYC.
Also, find me a large city that doesn't have its uglier sides. Just one. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's what she SAID! WOAHHHH
- mjesuele, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3East New York is a piece of *****. I live in Brooklyn and you know damn well that's not what most of New York looks like. Even Paris has ass-ugly hoods and suburbs.
- mtownand1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2gawd i love hdr.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now I really want to learn how to take HDR pictures.
- CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What does crime or how expensive things are, or the subway have to do with photographs?
- goat2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4stfu weeaboo
- rainbowjinjo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Wow, those are absolutely incredible pictures. It's amazing how he captured those colors...
- retnull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2These photos use HDR, a technique for combining multiple photographs to sum up the best details of each.
A lot of serious photographer really DON'T like HDR, because the results are UN-subtle and UN-natural. It's a very definite look that you can spot right away, once you know about it. HDR images aim to impress ("Check it out!!!") -- they are impressive, but not subtle or complex.
Most people don't care, they like to be impressed. HDR photos make sense hanging in a hotel room, or something like that. Me, I prefer subtle, natural, complicated images, like Cartier-Bresson or Arbus or Sommer or etc...these type of photos are actually far more difficult to make.
HDR is like the guitar player who can play really fast, but you get tired of listening to the guy after 2 minutes.
HDR is like saying "Britney Spears is the most beautiful woman in the world" -- see, beautiful isn't a good word here. Of course we can agree she's "hot" and stroke-worthy, but "beautiful"? Hopefully if you older than sixteen, you can think of someone who's truly beautiful. - Bandito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Born in NY.
Raised in NY.
Moved to Southern Cal.
There are many beautiful cities around the world but...
There's NOTHING like the hustle-'n-bustle of NYC.
There's NOTHING like the NYC skyline.
'nuff said. - rowlodge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2scarry kind of...
wanted to visit so many times ..... - dchaosdx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*sniff* same here
- akira117, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9Yea I love this pic...and
WOW this support for flickr photos give me new hope in my quest to have a photo topic (or maybe "Art" would be a better topic name)
Here's my old story: http://digg.com/offbeat_news/There_should_be_a_Photo_Section_on_digg! - rwoodford, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'd be willing to bet that there was minimal work in photoshop on most of those photos.
You can get great color at night with almost any digital camera and a tripod. Set the camera on 'Program' or 'Auto' and set the self timer to a few seconds to get rid of any shake from hitting the shutter. You can always tweak in the shutter, aperture, white balance, etc. to alter the image to taste. - dmolavi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1these were created using photomatix, i think. photoshop doesn't give the funky "halo" results. see this excellent blog post:
http://backingwinds.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-create-professional-hdr-images.html (which i believe, was dugg a while back) - Lizlovesadam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wish I could experience these photos first hand
- ezikiel2517, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4It would be awesome to see him do Chicago.
- ezikiel2517, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Some of these are just amazing!
- morninglorii, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2gorgeous... he should do some other cities too
- gharding, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Oh right, because only one city can be pretty.
- cru99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I love the pics, they make me homesick.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Most Beautiful City In The World, This is an idea of what people say...
http://www.pollwizard.com/12879
Paris is by far the most beutiful to me. - NevinW11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1no hobos or prostitutes? comeon that's the real NYC! hah just kidding
i live 15 minutes from NYC and I love that city with an undieing passion - nycjap, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Are you the Unabomber? I didn't realize they'd granted you Internet access in your padded cell. Get a life.
- admirabumblebee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You get dugg down, but the fact is that they are HDR which technically means they were modified from the original picture(s).
No reason to digg the guy down because he's right (in the vernacular at least) - mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -13/+12Seriously, NYC the most beautiful city ???
Are you freakin kidding me. There are bazillions of cities WAY prettier than NYC. And I don't mean large stretches of green fields. Say, Sydney? Frankfurt. Dubai. Even Hong Kong or Singapore.
With NYC, it's like, you walk a block and you see some huge buildings. You walk another block and you see some more. Every corner you turn, it's the same thing.
That said, there are some amazingly beautiful cities in Europe, go to Hamburg, Paris, Munich, even Amsterdam.. some small German towns, etc. There is so much beauty in the world, and NYC sure doesn't get to join the club of beautiful cities. Damn even the subway there is a dungeon, no less. Garbage everywhere on the streets... what not. - grachi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2boy that guys camera probably costs more then my computer, and i'm talking over 3000 dollars.
Looks like some of the pictures you'd see in National Geographic (quality wise) or something similiar. - secleinteer, on 10/12/2007, -10/+9Why don't you go hug some trees, hippie?
- antediluvial, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The horrors of HDR!
- pyrator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Sorry to be picky but there's not many cameras do HDR photography. What happens instead is the photographer process the images later on usually blending several images together, though they can also use only one. These images have been bracketed, e.g. taken with different exposures one after another, usually on a tripod, so that they can be merged more easily later on. Afterwards either in photoshop or with another third party tool like photomatix they're processed to give HDR effects. Sometimes they work out well. In the wrong hands they look plasticy and false with stupid 'halo' effect around objects.
Not all these images use HDR but some do.
There is something really special about night shots wherever they are taken. I guess NYC is always going to a have a special affinity for some. But reading from some of the comments of people who live there, it can be an awful place too. - TheLlamaIs, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3On the same note as mercurysquad, if NYC is beautiful, then what's Venice?
Also, CBTF, I don't think they're really "hating", it's just that saying NYC is the most beautiful city is quite a bold statement. I can think of dozens of cities that make NYC look like your average light-bright. - tunafizzle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Wow your computer costs 3000 dollars? Who cares?
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