Tag Archives: lucis 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...   Pretty much everyone who photographs New York cityscapes goes to the Top of the Rock and gets pictures of uptown, downtown, the rivers, bridges, and sometimes great skies that are visible from the observation deck. Pictures of the fixtures on the observation deck itself are, while not rare, much less common. What is uncommon is...  I passed by this parking garage entrance during a night time photo walk about 2 months ago, and was struck by how clean, bright, and colorful it was compared to similar establishments. I took a 5-shot bracketed set, but never quite managed to re-create the effect I saw with my eyes. This result comes...  Handheld shot of the Apple Store cube on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Photomatix generated too much noise so I ran one exposure through Lucis Pro, and then did some manual tonemapping using layers in Photoshop. Tweet  Wide Angle HDR of Columbus Circle at night, taken across from the Time Warner Center. Lucis Pro mixed in at the end. I processed 3 versions of this, with the main difference being the status of the automobile light trails of the cars passing through the traffic circle in front of me. I decided to...  The problem with shooting photos of animals at the zoo, is that if you don’t take notes as you go along, you have no idea exactly what type of animal is in each shot. Keeping track of the animals in an exhibit such as the Aquatic Birds is particularly hard, as each window often has...  This one took a lot of work, but it was a labor of love. This is the altar of the church of my youth, Immaculate Conception Church in Yonkers, NY. Unofficially but universally, the Church is known as St. Mary’s. It is a large, beautiful church. The photo took a lot of work for a...  I have just about run out of Christmas and holiday-themed images this year. Here is the front of the Lord & Taylor department store, taken more than a month before Christmas, when the lights were up but the windows were not yet fully decorated. Tweet  Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center, with trumpet-playing herald angels in the foreground. Merry, merry Christmas everyone. Tweet  Until the night I happened upon it and took this photo, I had no idea that a skating rink had been set up in Bryant Park, together with all of these shop stalls near the fountain. At the time I did it, this was my most involved processing job. A woman walked straight across the...  One thing I’ve learned very recently about composition is the value of a wide-angle lens, and getting very, very close to a subject. Had I realized this even 3 weeks ago, the above shot might have looked very...  Quick processing on early morning shot of a local street the day after the year’s first big snow storm (actually the biggest in a few years). Tweet  UPDATE: March 18, 2010: I am proud to announce that this photo won Honorable Mention in the Nikonians 10th Anniversary Photo Contest first round. Trey Ratcliff’s famous HDR tutorial uses a photo of Times Square at night as its example. So it is very tempting, when one starts working through the tutorial and making your...  This is Water Street in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, looking towards lower Manhattan, taken between 9 and 10 on a recent morning. I lived in this neighborhood about 15 years ago and haven’t been back since. It was even less developed and more industrial then. Now the contrast between the old and new is...  HDR shot of lower Manhattan, with emphasis on the Staten Island Ferry Terminal (the one on the left) and the Governors Island Ferry Terminal (on the right, with the orange/pink arches). The latter is also known as the Battery Maritime Building. This was taken from the Brooklyn Heights promenade. UPDATE: At the suggestion of some...  Most likely the most famous cathedral in the United States. I am fortunate to work about 2 blocks away, so during the week it is my church, for Holy Days and occasional visits. Tweet  The streets surrounding Rockefeller Center get very crowded during the Christmas season. Sidewalks that are usually fairly clear at night and on weekends become nearly impassable. In addition to the tourists and local folk making their annual pilgrimage to the Rockefeller Center Tree, the street vendors who normally close up after office business hours stay...  |
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