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Monthly Archives: June 2010 – There’s something very important I forgot to tell you.- What? – Don’t cross the streams. – Why? – It would be bad. – I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad”? – Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in...  I think this was my first night out trying the E-PL1, maybe the second. I had to get pretty close using this kit to get this shot, and I wasn’t really used to it, so I was a bit nervous, but the image was so perfect I pushed my self. Tweet  I do not normally post twice on Saturday’s (or any day for that matter) but today is International HDR Day, at least according to Rick Sammon and Trey Ratcliff, so I thought I should post an HDR image in addition to my black and white Bus Stop image. Taken about 5:30 am from Battery...  I generally try to avoid publishing images of people in any pose or situation that would be a source of even modest embarrassment, although sometimes I might compromise that idea a bit for large groups where one person away from the main subject is slightly “compromised.” To demonstrate where I draw...  I recently read one of those lifestyle articles in which the author reflects on life in New York City, the kind of substance-free article that is of interest only to navel-gazing New Yorkers, or those who imagine their lives would be more interesting if only they lived here. I usually skip these articles because...  I think this image might have the widest variety of emotions and “looks” in a small set of people of any shot in the series. Tweet  I spent a lot of time processing this one. There was a lot of motion – pedestrian traffic to be specific – and I wanted to get rid of the ghosts. There was also a lot of halos and glowing in the signage, lights and window of the restaurant. The restaurant...  I’ve already published 2 views of this area. This is actually the first one that I took, as I approached this corner by walking down William Street from the area behind the camera. I hit this corner and took the brackets for this image. While waiting for those 7 shots to cycle through, I... Until today, I have had nothing but praise for my Olympus Pen E-PL1 camera. Today I tried to update the firmware, which requires proprietary software, unlike every other camera that lets you do it by memory card. Whatever. Not too big of a hassle. You also have to connect the camera to the computer via...  At the time I didn’t think they noticed me, but the more I look at this shot I’m not sure. Either way, this might be my favorite “pose” in the series so far. Tweet  I have previously noted my fondness for triangle shaped buildings, formed at the corners of non-square intersections, so shooting this intersection was a given. It is a 5 way intersection, which is responsible for the narrow-angled corners. The central building is 1 William Street, which dates to 1907, and is currently...  So I take these occasional images on the subways and even the bus, usually on the way home from work. For some reason I don’t seem to do it in the morning. Lately I’ve been taking them with the Hipstamatic app on the iPhone, which is one of many “toy camera”...  I wish I had captured both of these women in equally sharp focus, but you don’t usually get second chances on the street, and shallow depth-of-field is the price you pay for creamy, dreamy bokeh. Tweet  Some photography tips are technical, involving settings on your camera or post-processing software. Others involve craft, such as compositional methods. Still others involve locations. It has long been an open secret that the best time to shoot in downtown Manhattan is very early on a Sunday morning. This is true both for...  |
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