Shot Notes
I’ve been asked by a few people to post some more images from my NYC trip (which, by the way, was completely awesome). So here we go.
If you ever visit NYC, one thing you need to do is visit Times Square at night. No other time of the day will give it justice, and trust me on that one. One of the truly awesome things though, is that this place is always busy. Doesn’t matter if it’s 4am or 4pm; it will be rammed.
The nice thing is that it’s right next to all the Broadway theatres (which should also be on your list), so it’s pretty easy to go visit. I’m not big on watching theatre productions, but we went to see Spamalot anyway at the Shubert Theatre. Apparently it finishes in early January, so if you’re a Python fan you should get there whilst you still can. There is an awesome restaurant with great cake right next door - we loved it so much, we ate there twice in four days.
Anyway, the idea behind the shot was to get a nice - but different - capture of that commonest of vehicles in Manhatten: the taxi. I stood around for about 40 minutes waiting for another Nikon user to get out of my way before I finally got the shot I wanted. I took the panning shot with the 10-22 to add extra distortion to the motion blur, and also to ensure that most of the cab was out of focus apart from the logo.
Nice one!