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My wife and I spent the weekend in New York City and had an absolutely wonderful time exploring! We did all the touristy-stuff (Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island, Times Square, etc.), went to a Broadway show (the Lion King…WOW!), a Yankees game, and even made the trek over to Serendipity 3 (made famous by a movie with the same name). My feet are still recovering, but I wouldn’t have had it any other way! We saw and experienced so much this past weekend, and I’m so thankful that I had an opportunity to spoil her with such a fun trip!
Now that I’m shooting with several new Canon cameras and lenses, I’m constantly thinking about and trying different creative approaches. I arrived in NYC a day before Brittany since I was there on business, but I wasn’t about to pass up an opportunity to capture NYC through a couple lenses. I didn’t have all my gear and was very limited on “free time”; all the images you’ll see in the video above were captured over about a two-hour period, and if you know anything about NYC, you’ll understand how much ground I covered in such a short time span. I shot everything at 60 FPS so I could test out my camera’s slow-motion capabilities; the color saturation was dropped out a bit to give it more of a film-like appearance.
Of course, I just had to include a song from Frank Sinatra, and this morning in the shower (while listening to Pandora), his tune “How About You” came on which includes the lyrics “I love New York in June…”…how fitting!
Here’s another video which captured the moment that Alex Rodriguez hit a home run against the Cleveland Indians!
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And last but not least, if I had more time, more gear, and LOTS more money, I would have spent some time putting together a time-lapse like this one by Mindrelic:
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