Nyc

Hey guys. I just got back from NY, so here are all the pictures I took. I have picked out all my favorites below, but if you wanna look at all 160... go http://chrisheninger.com/nyc/ .

the favorites:
Tom's Resturant from Seinfield
NYC Skyline / Jersey from our hotel.
Would've been one of the favorites of it wasn't taken out of a moving bus window :(
Down a street
Cloudy Building
Bridge from Men in Black
Its a bit blurry... but apple does a great job of advertisement
Pier 17
I'm in the blue
Times Square
The Naked Cowboy... I stuck the camera in the air and took it, I don't know the peole.
From the top of the Empire State Building
Cute kid, co-band director guy's son. Top of ESB.
From Ellis Island
Ellis Island
Liberty Island
Some guy, I loved how the picture turned out... one of my top 3.
NYC... one of my top 3.
My friend being his funny self
Wall Street
Ground Zero
Radio City... it is hard to take pictures of neon lights
Our desk... so much crap

Tell me what to do to make them better and which ones you liked.. if any. :p

Mmm, thanks for the comments or any hint that this place has any activity you 63 people who viewed.

hey I've been meaning to post about these - kept getting out of my mind. Very nice pics! I like'em Chris.

I like the jersey pic - and love the upper half of the ground zero one.. but the bottom kinda kills it... maybe you could make a panorama-like - cut the bottom...

I know it's crappy when people don;t respond to a nice post....kills the community yeah...sorry again

dude - you're messy! lol@the desk pic

We're not obligated to reply bro. ;)

And I still have trouble figuring out why people want to take pictures of something that used to be there ... it's unreal.

this is a crit, and maybe you weren't asking for one.. but you did ask about making better photos, so sorry if this seems unnecessarily harsh:

they lack focus and they lack substance.. i mean, they're vacation photos, they feature you or people you know and/or recognizable landmarks. if you wanted to do a serious job, then you should take time, consider the subject, frame it with intention, experiment with light, point of view (i.e. bird's eye, worm's eye), interesting shapes or textures, etc. just something other than - it looked interesting, so i did a quick snapshot. i understand that that's not always possible, like with the man in your top 3, it had to be quick (capture the moment) and possibly discreet, so fix it up later with cropping, rotation (crooked shots, unless intentional look amateur) - give it purpose, DO something instead of just recording what's there.

an exception: "NYC Skyline / Jersey from our hotel" is my favourite. the exposure is good, the composition is good, the subject matter is interesting (whether or not it was intentional (you can say it was later), i see it as a contrast of skylines - houses/suburban vs. city/urban) and you just did an overall good job on this one. not only is it a beautiful photo aesthetically, there is something interesting about the subject matter.

so, summary: as vacation photos - cool, looks like you had fun; as serious/artistic photos - not much there

Thanks paper, that helped a lot. I understand completely what you meant, the fact is I didn't have time to make them serious photos because I was in a 170 kid group, but thank you VERY much for your insight. I will keep that in mind next time I go serious shooting, that helped a lot.

I like the snap shot essance of them. Some of those pano shots are pretty nice, I do like them.