Just a quick post on a picture that I took last Saturday at Grand Central Station in New York:

Grand Central

This is an HDR image based on 3 exposures, bracketed around F7.1. So the shortest exposure was 0.6 seconds and the longest 10 seconds. I applied for a photo pass, but didn’t get one [not sure why: possibly because I only did it a week in advance]. As you’re not allowed to use a tripod without one, I propped my camera up on my hat and gloves on the ledge of the balcony – surprisingly effective. This was the day of the Snowstorm Jonas, so the outside light coming through the windows was pretty muted. There’s still a little bit of chromatic aberration though, possibly because I took this at 16 mm [on my 16-35mm F2.8].

I did take some pictures during the snow, but it wasn’t the sort of weather to be messing around with tripods. This is what a Prius looks like under a couple of feet of snow [taken on my phone]:

Snowy Prius