Another photo from Prospect Park

This scene was not that far away from the huddle of black men.

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“Sheila Tone” writes:

Did you do something tricky with the color?

I applied a bit of a warming filter because I think that the auto white balance was off, and I jacked up the saturation just a bit (but I had the camera set to the lowest saturation level).

However, I agree that the colors seem a little bit weird and I blame the camera. I’ve always felt that the colors produced by the Canon S90 were slightly off. For some reason, oranges don’t come out right: they either veer off to the yellow or the red. This is not something I know how to fix using Photoshop.

My Olympus E-620 SLR produces colors which seem to me to be better and more natural. Unfortunately, I left the E-620 home for this trip to Prospect Park, because it’s a PITA to carry around, and it’s not a good idea to walk around the ghetto with a big camera around your neck because you don’t want to attract attention to yourself in the ghetto. No, this is not me being “racist,” it’s genuinely a bad idea for a white person to attract attention to himself in a black neighborhood (a possible exception being Oak Bluffs).

To be fair to Prospect Park, the park itself is not the ghetto, and there are white people walking around there with visible cameras. And Flatbush Avenue looked like its safe enough during the day, as long as you don’t attract attention to yourself.

Comments

[Gil]

That's purty!

[Peter]

Don't look, but there's a bunch of Puerto Rican gangbangers lurking just out of the frame to the left.

[Sheila Tone]

Wow. Looks pre-Raphaelite. Did you do something tricky with the color?

[Genius]

What happened to your painting hobby? Why don't you set yourself up in the park with an easel and paint this stuff?

[JP]

All it needs are some zombies rising out of the murky water.

[Peter]

Flatbush Avenue is busy enough that you'd be safe on it anytime, day or night. Some of the side streets off to its east might be somewhat dubious at night, but even then I would not consider them outright dangerous.

[sestamibi]

Back in the 90s when I lived in NJ I took a date to the Bronx Zoo, after which we walked along the banks of the Bronx River. Not quite the Columbia River Gorge, but a breathtakingly beautiful oasis in the middle of the urban desert (and a big surprise to me, since I had never done that even though I grew up in the Bronx not too far away). Reassuring to know that there are still places left like that in NYC.

[Dave]

I'm a professional photographer that shoots Canon. I too see the oranges & reds go off, but usually just in mixed lighting conditions (combination of tungsten & daylight for example).

Go to hue/saturation adjustment, select the eye dropper, move over to your photo and click on the color you want to change. You can then adjust the hue & saturation sliders to taste.

If you're serious about getting your colors right you should calibrate your monitor. I use a Datacolor Spyder 3.