Tag Archives: hdr I know I’ve written the story of this morning earlier, but it’s really the most relevant and interesting thing I have to say about this image: it was New Year’s Day and a gorgeous, mild morning at that. I had planned to get up in time to shoot the year’s first sunrise, which actually is...   Walking along River Street in Hoboken, I came across this subtle bit of neon advertising for Hoboken Cigars, and was immediately drawn to its studied, understated cool. You can see me and my tripod reflected in the bottom center window. While I do not mind it here, I wish there were a magic tool that would allow...  Walton Street is a short, two-block stretch in downtown Syracuse with a lot of restored buildings and pretty shops, but that is not what I chose to shoot that morning. This is a loading dock, I guess. There is a great ghost sign above, but I cut it off because “Hurbson Office Equipment” did not...  Sometimes what I do in the field is a mystery to me. I photographed this scene twice in immediate succession. For the second image I widened my zoom by 2 mm, and widened my aperture by maybe 2 stops (since I was in Aperture priority mode this automatically adjusted my shutter). But apparently I never...  Very late post today and very short on time. The sign — “Louis Zuflacht – Smart Clothes,” is from an old men’s clothing store. When I was there to take this the space was occupied by a gallery called NY Studio Gallery, but that website says they are now closed so I do not know...  An empty parking lot in downtown Hoboken, NJ last Sunday morning. I did what would you might call light tonemapping (as opposed to heavy tonemapping) to partially even out the diference between the shadow area in the bottom left and the brighter area in the top right. The saturation is dropped about 40%, except for the sky...  Where is there an end of it, the soundless wailing, The silent withering of autumn flowers Dropping their petals and remaining motionless; The Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot. The latest entry from an urbex adventure in Staten Island. Tweet  According to the mural, “Mom” passed in 2009, and my web research indicates that the “M&M Variety Hardware” store closed sometime between fall 2010 and fall 2011. The “In Memory of Mom” moral on the roll down gate was done by local muralist Chico, who also does a rotating series of murals on the wall...  This is my second shot from last weekend’s urbex shoot in Staten Island. That’s Jose Vazquez kneeling just by the open door. I have to give him credit for this. He was set up for his shot when I decided to set up behind him. I was going to wait for him to finish, but...  I previously showed these arches in Fort Tryon Park, but from the other side where you could not see the George Washington Bridge. As cool as these arches are to look at and to contemplate photographing, I had a tough time getting a composition and angle I liked. Tweet  Last week I was invited by a group of New York area photographers active on Google Plus to take part in an excursion to an abandoned community on Staten Island. The trip was planned and led by Jose Vazquez, and also included Angel Figueroa, Howard Gaines, Mike Marin, and kora foto morgana. It was a...  The lower Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn Bridge Park. There was a dramatic sky that morning — the weather was beautiful but the sky and clouds looked as if a great storm was brewing — and that sky combined with the tilt-shift lens created a rather surreal look to many of my shots. Tweet  I took this picture because of one thing — the simple unaffected translation of the name of the restaurant. “El Sombrero,” or, “The Hat Restaurant.” Tweet  I pulled this one from the archives. It’s about 2 years old and I don’t know what to say about it. The scene pretty much speaks for itself and I don’t have anything to add in the way of history or insight. The partially destroyed mural is a mystery to me. Processing was straightforward, except...  I’m not sure where to begin, there is so much I found interesting in this image. So I’ll start big picture, so to speak. First, I found the mural interesting, but I am trying to rely less upon just photographing someone else’s public art, whether an official mural or graffiti. I am also fascinated by bicycles...  This is just around the corner from Peck Slip. The rest of the building looks much newer and modern. I’m not sure how it all fits together. It might be that an old building added new windows and doors except for this one. Clearly, however, this detail was the most interesting element in the structure....  By my standards, this shot is ancient, taken almost 2 years ago. It seems longer to me, but that’s all it’s been. I’ve decided to head back into my archives for overlooked shots, or slightly different perspectives on scenes I previously published. I have previously shown various shots all taken of different looks, but all within...  Straight ahead is the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) in Armory Square Syracuse. To the right is the side of the building that houses the Landmark Theater I featured in some earlier posts. This is a fairly simple composition; I was essentially interested in the contrast between the broken base to the street lamp...  I didn’t tell my collaborators, but I had second thoughts about selecting this image for our project almost as soon as I offered it. It’s a fine image I’m proud of, but it only gets marginal benefit out of an HDR treatment, and I was not sure it would lend itself to very many varied...  |
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