Thanks for your wonderful comments on the shots from the park yesterday with my new lens. The one of the sculpture ended up on PP - yay!!
Still testing my new lens and processing images from it in different ways. This was taken at 300mm using three bracketed shots -- fortunately he was quite still (and a little unnerving the way he was staring at me). Processed in Photomatix to combine and then in LR to avoid any HDR unnatural look but get all the details of his face. In extras album is a sc image from the park yesterday, also at 300mm: http://365project.org/taffy/the-also-ran-ph/2015-10-10
Oh, this turned out really well... it looks very natural. He is a noble fellow with an eerily unmoving stare. I bet your new lens will be fun to use in NY, too! Super shot.
Love the detail and stare your getting!!
Congrats on your new lens Taffy, should be very practical!