As I mentioned in my blog post yesterday, last week and into the weekend I was at PhotoPlus in New York City.  On Sunday I decided to take the subway to Times Square with my point and shoot camera and take some images.  With the Canon G9 (now replaced by the G10) you do get some controls and for these images I decided to shoot in Aperture Priority mode allowing me to control the depth of field.  Adjust the aperture as well as the ISO I was able to get some slow enough shutter speeds so when I moved the camera I would get a blur in the scene.  Some of this involved tricking the meter, which leads to the blown out highlights especially in the image of the flags in Rockefeller Plaza.

Times Square has always hinted towards action with a quick pace and the neon in the evening.  Also on Broadway and 7th Avenue you will constantly see the movement of yellow cabs, but that is also true througout Manhattan.

As I headed across 50th Street towards Rockefeller Plaza I noticed a good stream of people heading that way, and as I ate a pretzel on the corner of 50th and Avenue of the Americas I also noted the neon on Radio City Music Hall.  At first I was trying to get the people crossing the avenue but the frame just wasn’t working and as I continued down 50th noticed the NBC Studios sign which I figured could work in the frame.  The below image was also captured with a slow shutter speed and is not cropped since I thought the position of the closest two people was perfect in this frame and didn’t want to lose that at all.

Once I got to Rockefeller Plaza I was looking down at the people skating on the rink and just couldn’t get anything I liked and focused my attention on the flags of all the countries throughout the plaza.  With part of the plaza in shadow and the top of 30 Rock in sun I knew it would be tricky to meter so I decided to meter on just the shade and let the sky blow out in highlights.

Almost all of the images I took on this day were a little different and tried to stretch the camera abilities to the limits than the normal scenes in New York City.