NYC: The Accident

[BottomBracket]

This is the second accident I have seen at this intersection this year. The vehicles turning right at this intersection compete with the crossing pedestrians during the short time the light is green. I hope the authorities improve the flow here and make it safer. Lower Manhattan, NYC.

http://piofort.zenfolio.com/img/p882703615-4.jpg

[mogearnotalent]

intresting

[august23]

poweful. tell me BottomBracket, do you add the vignetting in PS or do you purposely do it to your lens by adding a smaller filter or something like that? Also I assume you desaturate your pictures as well. anything else go into achieving this "real" effect?

[Hangbot]

OMG - that's like 3 blocks away from my apartment! that intersection sucks for both pedestrian and drivers. The people waiting mob the crosswalks, and sometimes there's so many people, the driver misses the light. So in turn, the people mob the street, and the drivers try to rush to beat the mob. it really is a crap of an intersection.

[adam*]

Interesting photo as always, your current workflow is great.

[Richtherookie]

Great picture! Love all of the medical care being provided for the injured person on the ground! Love the looks of it.

[Dan_S]

Great looking photo. How did you achieve the look of it?

[cbock]

i agree the tone of the photo is great!

[Yiskah]

Pio, This evoked several emotions in me... I almost felt like people in the photo seemed ambivalent, instead of caring. I felt sorry for the pedestrian. I even felt sorry for the driver. I have never been to NYC, but sadly maybe they are "used" to this...? (no judgment here- just wondering!)
I am glad you did not use bold colors or black and white. The coloring is just right. I am using you as a mentor:)
B Blest,
Yiskah

[bigcountry]

bb, did the person live? - headtube

[BottomBracket]

intresting

Interesting photo as always, your current workflow is great.

Great picture! Love all of the medical care being provided for the injured person on the ground! Love the looks of it.

i agree the tone of the photo is great!

Thanks for the kind words, all :)

[BottomBracket]

poweful. tell me BottomBracket, do you add the vignetting in PS or do you purposely do it to your lens by adding a smaller filter or something like that? Also I assume you desaturate your pictures as well. anything else go into achieving this "real" effect?

Great looking photo. How did you achieve the look of it?

Thanks for the kind words and the interest in PP. August, Dan, the PP workflow is something that I have been working on for the past months, and it involves shooting in RAW, a bit underexposed, with desaturation, D and B, and vignetting added in Photoshop. A bit of explanation can be found here: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=304768, scroll down to message #9.

Thanks again!

[BottomBracket]

bb, did the person live? - headtube

OMG - that's like 3 blocks away from my apartment! that intersection sucks for both pedestrian and drivers. The people waiting mob the crosswalks, and sometimes there's so many people, the driver misses the light. So in turn, the people mob the street, and the drivers try to rush to beat the mob. it really is a crap of an intersection.

Pio, This evoked several emotions in me... I almost felt like people in the photo seemed ambivalent, instead of caring. I felt sorry for the pedestrian. I even felt sorry for the driver. I have never been to NYC, but sadly maybe they are "used" to this...? (no judgment here- just wondering!)
I am glad you did not use bold colors or black and white. The coloring is just right. I am using you as a mentor:)
B Blest,
Yiskah

Thanks for looking at comments, all. BC, yes the old lady lived. She was bumped by the van's right side, which stopped immediately. I found this out when I talked to the school crossing guard the next day - this is just around the corner from my son's school. As HangBot explained, this intersection is teeming with pedestrians and vehicles, most of which are delivery vans, and when the green light turns on a flood of people crosses and the vehicles turning right have to wait until there is a break in the people's flow. This time the driver miscalculated with disastrous results.

Yiskah, the people standing around the fallen person are actually serving as a human barrier to prevent vehicles from rushing into the area. As with most accidents, the people secure the area and refrain from moving the injured, waiting instead for the EMT to come and do their work. About ambivalency, I think that though there may be some people here that would just go about their business, I would say that there will be a lot of people who will rush to the aid of someone in this situation. More so after 9-11, it seems that people here look after each other more when in dire straits.

I took this shot when I was stuck in traffic on the same street, after I picked up my son. Traffic was at a standstill, I pulled out my trusty G6, stepped of the car, took a couple of shots and rushed back to my car, all in 15 seconds. I debated with myself whether I would post this shot or not, and decided that the injured person's face was vague enough to keep her anonymous, hence it is here.

Yiskah, I feel honored that you consider me a mentor. I love photography and I have learned a lot from other more experienced people and from books. I like to share what has been shared with me, and I think that is the spirit of this forum.

Thanks for looking all!

[Gr8outdrsmn]

Excellent shot. since i am fairly new at all of this i still shoot in jpg and have yet to shoot in RAW, but pictures like this and the one you linked to push me towards diving into RAW. thanks for sharing, and keep up the good work.

[BottomBracket]

Hey Gr8, thanks for the kind comment. I know there is a huge debate on RAW vs JPEG and I won't get into that, but I find myself shooting RAW most of the time because there is so much info hidden there. The downside is that I fill up my external drives at a much faster rate. I keep all my RAW files too, whatever I shoot I still have it on file, even all the bad ones :)

[ErikM]

Great timing Pio. I love your PP style too :D

[TheAztech]

I really like your PP it gives a very nice feeling to the shots.

[AeroSmith]

That's a very interesting scene you captured. And the PP is really neat.

Glad the woman is OK.

[Gordeez]

Man, this is awesome!
Im trying something like this out, but im not no where near
as close as you are on achieving this kind of look.

[BottomBracket]

Thanks guys, have a look at my PP workflow and try it yourselves. I would be glad to answer questions on this forum or PM.