Monthly Archives: October 2009 This is another older photo. While I truly became serious about my photography this year, I do have a few older shots I like, and this is one of them. This is an art gallery in Lambertville, NJ. I don’t know if it took over the location of an actual five and dime store, or...   Radio City Music Hall, taken at night from across a fountain in front of an office tower across the street. I shot this in JPG Normal, not RAW, not even Fine, proving, I think, Ken Rockwell’s contention that JPG normal in Nikon cameras is usually no less than what you will need. Tweet  Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider Blog has a useful post on a look I favor that is similar to an effect you can also achieve with the Lucis Art Pro plugin for Photoshop. The settings aren’t quite as powerful as Luci Art Pro, but for many photos they do a great job, very simply. The only...  Taken in September 2009 from about one block north of the store, this is processed from the +2 exposure of a bracketed set. Tweet  This was taken from a moving car on Route 17 in upstate NY (my wife was driving). I had noticed this factory on previous trips, including the fact that it often released nice little puffs of smoke. I grabbed this shot heading south in November 2007, but the colors were very flat. I used new...  San Francisco, 2001. A week before 9/11. I’m walking up towards Lombard Street, where I didn’t get any shots I liked, but stopped to take this along the way. I’m very fond of this photo. It was the perfect time of day for it. The sun was starting to drop in the sky, but it...  |
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