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Category Archives: Photography (as subject) Happy New Year. These are both iPhone shots that I shared through instagram. The first is from a local park in Queens and shows the last sunset of 2011. The one on the right is from a photo shoot this morning in Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan. I have, I hope, a better quality shot of...  Without any sort of official survey, my experience for the past two years has led me to conclude that the political leanings of online photographers are similar to that of most online communities (excluding, of course, the overtly political communities): libertarians are over-represented proportionally to their presence in the greater world. Although I’m not libertarian,...  I have mentioned this tip before, but it is worth repeating. If you are shooting through a chain link fence, or similar obstruction, try opening the aperture on your lens as wide as possible (assuming you have that control available to you). Then place your camera right up against the fence, and the fence wires...  To me every chain link fence is a Hurricane fence, although in truth not all of them are made by that manufacturer. So that covers the title, but here’s what I really want to talk about: Yesterday I acted as Leader for a Queens edition of the Scott Kelby World Wide Photo Walk. Because I...  291, also known as Gallery 291, also known as “Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession”, was a famous art and photography gallery located on the fifth floor of a walk-up townhouse at the address 291 Fifth Avenue. It was created and managed by photographer Art Stiglitz in the early 20th Century. In addition to being a...  Boring image, but it’s just there to support the text. I tweeted something about this paper during the week, but tweets are so ephemeral. There is a law review article I recently came across that addresses the unnecessary conflicts between photographers and law enforcement. It is titled: Less than Picture Perfect: The Legal Relationship between Photographers’ Rights and Law Enforcement,...  Apologies. I consider this almost a retread, because I already posted a different “toy boat” selective focus image from the Jersey City world wide photo walk when I did my initial post immediately after the event. I had planned to process and post an HDR, which I haven’t done in nearly a week. But some...  This is another image from the 2010 Jersey City edition of the World Wide Photo Walk, taken with my Olympus Pen E-PL1, using the Pinhole Camera preset. As I have previously explained, when you use one of this camera’s presets, it creates two copies of the image: a JPEG with the filter applied, and a plain...  About a month and a half ago, my buddy Scott Wyden came up with the idea for Self Portrait Friday.* The idea is that every, or at least any Friday, you take a self portrait, probably just using your camera phone, maybe with one of the fun smart phone photo apps, and post it...  OnOne has released an updated demo version of their upcoming product release, Perfect Layers. I’m going to do a follow up post tomorrow, because I used the demo on a photograph last night in Aperture and loved it, but I already had a photo queued up for today, which will go up momentarily. However, I...  Forever The Empty City by Mark Garbowski | Make Your Own Book As promised, I am pleased and excited to announce today that my book, Forever The Empty City: New York City – Vacant: 2009-2011, is now available for purchase at Blurb books. A preview is shown above. This book features my photographs of New York City,...  “You see those two towers? World Trade Center. I was an architect working on them. First they just wanted to build one but I said, ‘Hey, fellas, we’re here – What the hell, let’s throw another one up’. Turned out pretty well, didn’t it?” Billy Caufield (Michael Keaton) , The Dream Team (1989) This lying...  This picture reminds me of why I shoot Nikon. But first, let’s start at the beginning. My First Camera and Temporary Blindness My first camera was a Kodak Brownie. I’m pretty sure the one shown at the link is the one I had. I remember it being a hand-me-down, and I thought it was ancient,...  Photo Post-Processing Tuturial – Using Nik Color Efex Portrait Filters for Streetscape Photography from Mark Garbowski on Vimeo. I shoot a lot of streetscapes in early morning light, known as the “golden hour.” Sometimes, however, the light needs a bit of a boost inpost-processing. This tutorial shows a part of my workflow using the Nik...  Shortly after writing and posting yesterday’s blog entry, I started reviewing my news reader to catch up on my RSS feeds. To my delight, I discovered that Derrick Story chose my submission to be the featured image for his November Photo assignment, which was “High ISO.” The image he featured is shown above. There is...  This was taken last march during one of my first nights out doing street photography. I put it in the marginal reject pile because of the focus issues. Lately, however, I’ve come to appreciate the blurry soft-focus look in some of the shots. This look was not so much due to poor focus, I believe,...  I realize this isn’t the world’s most visually appealing graffiti, but something about the text resonated with me as a digital photographer. Tweet  Yesterday I offered up a small mystery. I revealed that I was doing or using something different in my most recent candid street photography images, namely Bus Stop No. 61, Bus Stop No. 62, and yesterday’s Crosswalk No. 63. I had found it interesting that a pair of comments on Bus Stop 61 stated that there...  Yesterday Scott Wyden, who I met through Twitter, posted a challenge to his photographer friends to do their best with what he admitted to be a bad set of brackets. You can read why they are bad brackets at the link. So I gave it a go last night. I did the HDR in Photomatix, then...  |
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