Quiet Sunset on 79th Street
by chakkobbo

Comment:
I wanted to thank everyone for your kind comments.

It's interesting to see how people prefer the picture with or without the car, with more or less road etc.... I tend to be very instinctive...I always, always look for shots, no matter what I do, whether I have a camera or not. I always regret those I don't shoot. The real exceptional thing about this city shot was that there were no cars on the street for about 1 minute, which is really rare, especially at this time of day in NYC.

As far as the "development" is concerned, the only thing I changed from the original was straightening the horizon (i.e. rotating the photo slightly), which means that I effectively had to crop about 3% of the border all around. I also added a little contrast and saturation from the original using "Levels" in Photoshop. All in all it's very close to how I got it on camera!

Good luck to everyone on the coming challenges!