Monthly Archives: January 2010 Driftwood on the beach at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. Tonemapped and edited using Topaz Adjust and Detail. Verrazano Bridge in the background. I haven’t seen many HDR photos with a small depth of field, putting most of the photo out of focus. The 2 effects are somewhat at cross purposes, as the point of HDR...   It was 16º Fahrenheit this morning, and won’t go as high as freezing all day. Accordingly, I thought it a good time to publish the second in my warm summer sunset series. Taken in Ferry Point Park, August 2009, on a Nikon D40 with the Nikkor 18-200 VR lens, processed through Topaz Adjust and Topaz... Back in late October 2009, Trey Ratclff at Stuck in Customs used the power of his website to create a Twitter community. His post explains it better than I can summarize, but in short, he invited all of his fans to leave a comment with their Twitter, website and/or Facebook addresses so we could connect...  Handheld shot of the Apple Store cube on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Photomatix generated too much noise so I ran one exposure through Lucis Pro, and then did some manual tonemapping using layers in Photoshop. Tweet  The 79th Street Boat Basin on the Hudson River, looking north from Riverside Park on a recent and unusually warm January evening. George Washington Bridge in the far background to the right. Tweet  Wide Angle HDR of Columbus Circle at night, taken across from the Time Warner Center. Lucis Pro mixed in at the end. I processed 3 versions of this, with the main difference being the status of the automobile light trails of the cars passing through the traffic circle in front of me. I decided to...  The lion is the mascot of Columbia University sports teams. I attended both the undergraduate Columbia College and the School of Law in the early through mid-late 80s. When I visited the campus a few weeks ago, I saw this statute called the “Scholar’s Lion,” and was a bit befuddled because I did not remember...  I have been slack in posting images due to a persistent cold. This tiger, who sat very cooperatively, will be the last from my brief Bronx Zoo series. I might post more zoo photos at Flickr if I get around to it. Tweet  Shooting a mongoose, or any animal, in a zoo is obviously much easier than shooting in the wild, but doing so has given me a bit of appreciation for what drives wildlife photographers. Even though this fellow was limited to a fairly small enclosed space, he moved and darted so much that when I made...  The problem with shooting photos of animals at the zoo, is that if you don’t take notes as you go along, you have no idea exactly what type of animal is in each shot. Keeping track of the animals in an exhibit such as the Aquatic Birds is particularly hard, as each window often has...  This one took a lot of work, but it was a labor of love. This is the altar of the church of my youth, Immaculate Conception Church in Yonkers, NY. Unofficially but universally, the Church is known as St. Mary’s. It is a large, beautiful church. The photo took a lot of work for a...  |
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