Well its been maybe 4 years since I visited this forum last? I remember always being on this as a kid. Anyway Fast forward four years later, Im now a cityscape photographer so here are some of my recent pieces. (I mostly perfer to shoot at sunset/night) Right now Flickr is down for some retarded reason so Im gonna post these directly from facebook.<br><br>Philadelphia<br><br><br><br>[/img]http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/188320_1890214257872_1316948428_31653653_3595305_n.jpg[/img]
<br><br><br><br>4th of July<br><br><br>New York City<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>[img]http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/188239_1617233233517_1316948428_31346583_2784925_n.jpg
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I have a question what you mean because when you say 'cityscape photographer' it seems to imply that you are a professional who chiefly photographs cities. If so, excellent! If not, I'm just confused because I would typically phrase it "I'm an amateur photographer" or "here are summa my photos of cities" or something instead of narrowly self-identifying.

Regardless, these are the ****! Excellent work, dude! Give us the rundown on your equipment, por favor?

The times square one is nice. Not super bright and glowy like people normally make it. What kind of shutter speed did you use?

Semi pro. There are shops in Downtown Philadelphia that carry prints of my work where Im credited and get 15% royalties on all sells. There is also a shop in NYC's midtown that carrys one of my panoramas on a giant canvas print.

I use a Canon EOS Rebel T2i, and a tripod.

For photoshop I use a plugin called Topaz Ajust to get the crisp vibrance you would get from an HDR, then I tone it down so it looks both realistic and sharp.

The Times SQ shot was 3 seperate exposures entirely merged together with layer masks. I did a 30 second for the brightest, A 6 second, then a very low one for the signs and flashy billboards which was the darkest.

Oh that's awesome. A lot of people tend to take the super bright picture of Times Square. Nice change to see that

Wow man. I am IMPRESSED!
Love the motion blur on the bridge shots. You can tell ya had different exposure rates for the times square just by the varying degrees of motion blur, from the pedestrians is most noticable.
Very Very Very nice.

Wait, why would you use a plugin to do that rather than just shoot an HDR photo?

Was this taken from the Manhattan Bridge?

Probably. I dont think theres a building over there tall enough to get that shot

Yeah. I went on the Manhatten bridge a few times running. But I believe it's for bikes only (in the pedestrian walkways). The bikers are getting angry with non-bikers, despite areas where people can stop and admire the view on the bridge.