Tag Archives: Lucis Pro So I started this blog one year ago today, and it seems appropriate to do a little retrospective. It began cautiously. I had been thinking of getting serious about photography on and off for a few years. In the summer of 2009 I actually started doing it. I began playing with HDR. I bought Photoshop...   I think Park Avenue photographs so much better than it looks in real life. The gleaming glass office towers tend to look pretty drab, especially in full daylight. I discussed this earlier here. This is, I think, what the architects were aiming at when they developed this style. So even though I do not much...  I considered calling this “Sunshine Is The Best Disinfectant” to capture the play between the sun hitting the corne of the building in the back and the Antiseptic Soap advertisement on the side of the brick building on the right, but instead I chose the song reference, which also calls to the morning sun on the aged buildings. This...  Manhattan is the big city, but it is also small enough that if you do a lot of exploring, probably as a young adult, you can start to wonder how close you are to having been on every block. You might start to mentally catalog the neighborhoods where you know you have gaps, but you...  So maybe this is filler, but as I’ve explained in earlier posts, I’m skipping today’s usual installment of a Crosswalk series photo to better sync the numbering of the Crosswalk and Bus Stop series. When I skipped a Bus Stop I posted a black and white version of an earlier HDR image that somebody requested....  These rocks almost look as if they lead completely across the water so that you could walk from this beach on Staten Island all the way to Coney Island in Brooklyn, which you can see straight ahead. This image is from a photo excursion almost a year ago, last Columbus Day, to Fort Wadsworth in...  This was the first shot I set up that morning. It was about 6:00 am on a Sunday in Tribeca. Among other things, I was using a Promote Control for the first time, so my set up took a little longer than usual while I made sure I had everything arranged properly. While I was...  Here is a shot of part of the closed Dominos Sugar Refinery taken from behing a chain link fence. A wire from the fence was sitting directly in front of the camera lens, and neatly enough, you cannot see it. It’s not magic, and I do not have the power to bend light. Well, actually...  This is shot facing East, between 7:00 and 7:30 am, so the morning sun is behind these buildings. The speckled light you see is reflected off of the windows of the buildings across the street and bounces back to hit these buildings. You can see parts of the other buildings in some of the windows...  Yesterday I drove more than 6 hours (round trip) to photograph a trio of diners I have been eyeing for more than 10 years. They are all on Route 17, which runs through the Catskill Mountains in central New York. I have been driving Route 17 1-2 times yearly for about 13 years, as...  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...  – 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 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...  You do not often see a completely empty parking lot in Manhattan. Even when a lot is closed, as this one apparently was, people will take advantage of the opportunity and park for free. It rained a bit that night – very light, but enough to put some drops on the giant front element of...  The mere presence of a pay phone makes this news stand look like it was lost in time. There are very few pay phones left on the streets of New York, now that mobile phones are so ubiquitous. Then there is graffiti covering the metal grates, which adds a pre-Giuliani feel. The...  I have a tendency to always be shooting things from the side. Not people – I will sometimes shoot them head-on – but things and places almost always get this treatment. I believe this tendency usually serves me well, but not always. I took this during a morning visit to...  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...  I’ve gotten enough traffic and interest in my Fifth Avenue Cube Apple store image that I decided to do another. This image was taken around 5 am on a Sunday morning a couple of months ago. At first I had trouble getting a final look I liked. After letting it sit for a while, I’m...  This is a display of arms for men and horses in the Metropolitan museum of art. The pieces date from the middle to late 16th century, and come from Germany and Italy. I strongly recommend close inspection of the detail in the armor, especially the face plates for the horses. If necessary, click the image...  I’ve started taking subway candids with the -EPL1 hanging in plain sight around my neck. Most people don’t notice. Most shots just got a white balance fix if necessary and maybe exposure. A couple had a little more work, including one with Lucis Pro. Tweet  |
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