Category Archives: Uncategorized I know that this tilt-shift miniature effect has been done to death, but I have found surprisingly few opportunities to create the classic example of a street scene shot from above, and then rendered in such a way to make it look like a miniature diorama. After I shot this image from the Fresh Pond...   A few months ago when I shot the interior of Grand Central Terminal using A Minolta CLE and Ilford HP5 Plus film, I needed to head outside to finish the roll. This is one of the shots I grabbed, from an overpass hard by the East River that looks straight down 42nd Street looking west....  I doubt Instagram needs any more introduction after Facebook bought the company for $1 billion in cash and stock a few short weeks ago, but for those unaware, Instagram is an app for iPhones, and more recently also for Android phones, that allows users to share images quickly and easily to an online social community.... It has been a little more than a year since I asked your indulgence for a non-photography related post, and I need to do it again. I have a credit card issued by the Bank of America, which I will soon be canceling. Apparently some company somewhere had a security breach that included, at the...  Last August Pittsburgh based photographer Dave DiCello came to NYC, and he and I got together for a photo walk on a hot Saturday afternoon. I took only my film camera, and although I finished the roll about a month later, I never got the film developed until this week. Dave published some images from...  Number 4 St. mark’s Place was built by Alexander Hamilton Jr., was home to James Fenimore Cooper, and for the past few decades has been the location of Trash and Vaudeville, a pair of linked but separate stores that sell rock and roll inspired clothing. I’m somewhat amazed that the store has lasted so long....  I’m traveling on business and the location of San Rafael, California is beautiful, but the area very close to my hotel is not particularly photogenic and my obligations kept me from venturing too far. I did grab these shots and processed them all on the iPad. Tweet  In the foreground is the American radiator Building, now the Bryant Park Hotel. It is the subject of the famous Georgia O’Keefe painting, “Radiator Building—Night, New York.” Looking over its shoulder from approximately a quarter mile is, of course, the Empire State Building. This was taken from Bryant Park, which sits behind the New...  I took a lot of photos on the Jersey City edition of the Worldwide Photo Walk last year, and published very few on the blog. So i think I might publish a few this week, then continue to sprinkle them in occasionally in coming weeks. That day I only took my Olympus Pen E-PL1 and I... Black and White Street Photography Aperture Work Flow from Mark Garbowski on Vimeo. This video features a beginning to end workflow, from importing images off of a card, using tags to help organize, processing one image and uploading it to my image hosting service Phanfare, and finishing it off with a WordPress...  This was the 5 minute fix that I worked on for days. But I am really excited about the main fix, which does only take a few minutes both to learn and to implement. Let’s start with learning the new technique. Last weeks This Week In Photo podcast featured, among others, Richard Harrington, who does...  This is a small cemetery that appears to be affiliated with St. Aloysius parish, in Livingston Manor, NY, which I came across last summer. I had driven up through Rockland and Sullivan Counties to photograph some abandoned diners, and on my way back I spent a short time exploring, where I found some covered bridges...  She wasn’t really this blurry.(See yesterday’s post for the reference). As with yesterday, this is a technically flawed image which I like. The buildings and people across the street are in fine sharp focus, but the young woman in the foreground is, not. Tweet  I served on the board of directors of a New York City transportation policy advocacy group for 2-3 years in the early 90s. Bike lanes have ever been, and probably always will be, a contentious issue. Not only do lots of drivers and even pedestrians hate them, but cyclists and bicycle advocates are not even...  I have been doing some preliminary research into infrared photography lately, after seeing some breathtaking images. It looks like it is going to be a real pain whether you do it digitally or with film. Infrared film requires special handling and processing, and your options today for getting any film processing done are limited. You...  Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were bitter enemies for much of their careers, and I generally side with Hamilton. I could catalog many Jeffersonian faults, but oh, that Declaration. He earned a lot of good will with that. Our rights as human beings do...  I’m getting a lot of hits from people searching for “E-PL1 and HDR,” but the visitors don’t seem to find what they’re looking for. I tag each photo with the camera and at least some of the methods used in processing, so popular tags such as E-PL1 and HDR show up on...  This is the view down John Street, looking east from the corner of Adams Street. This is another DUMBO shot — the Manhattan Bridge is behind me and looming almost directly above. Tweet  The nostalgia that many people hold for the old, crime-ridden, “gritty” New York, is, well, STUPID. We are so much better off now that the city is safer and cleaner than it was before Giuliani’s mayoral terms. Still, what has happened to the meatpacking district is just weird. I haven’t been down there in at...  Yesterday I made my first visit to the High Line, a New York city park built on an unused elevated railroad track on the West Side. By the time I got there in late afternoon, the sky changed from partly cloudy to completely overcast, so I didn’t have the light I hoped for, but the...  |
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