NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Hmmm . . .I’m getting behind posting. I’ve actually taken and selected images a week ahead of this post, but I have not had enough time to write this stuff. And I haven’t been looking forward to this post. The best image of the day is a not-very-good shot of a friend (caught at Quatorze Bis) who I’m not identifying because I don’t care for the image. Taken with my Leica M9, but it’s not the camera’s fault.
Susan Kamil
On this day one year ago: Connecticut shot in infra red. At the time this seemed like a lot of snow, but it was really nothing compared to this year.
MUSTIQUE – Back again to Macaroni Beach for another picnic plus, of course, a sunset. Beach shoot with my small Panasonic; sky with my Hasselblad H4D-60.
Judy HamiltonMustique Sunset
MUSTIQUE – The house that we’re staying at, L’Ansecoy, belongs to Maguy le Coze, owner of Le Bernardin, our favorite restaurant in New York. Anyway, another day another rainbow, and another beautiful sky. Both taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60.Doug and JudyGrenadines sunset
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – More mementos – these from our living room in New York. I really am in a sentimental place. There is a digital technique called focus bracketing that lets you extend depth of field. It turns out that this is actually easier that messing with tilts (the classical view camera technique for achieving a similar result) as long as nothing moves between exposures. This was taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60 and a 150 mm lens. It’s 7 exposures focusing from near (the front of the tea chest) to far (the speaker grill in the lower left). The frames were stacked in Helicon Focus, specialized software that combines focus bracketed images to produce one in focus composite. The moire on the lampshade is actually not an digital artifact – it results from the interaction of screens in front of the window that illuminates the scene.
Momentos
WARREN CONNECTICUT – On New Years day we set up a backdrop and put scrim jims in front of a couple of windows to shoot portraits with the Hasselblad. Here are Francesca, Jeremy and Virgil. We’re coming to the end of the longest period that we’ve stayed in our Connecticut house since we’ve owned it.
WARREN and DABURY CONNECTICUT – I’ve got a couple of images for New Years Eve. We had an excellent sunset, followed by a costume party given by our friends Bill and Bunny Beekman. The sunset is three frames stitched taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60 and a 100mm lens.
Maria went dressed as a nun Here she is in character, taken with my Panasonic GF-1 and a 14mm pancake lens. This is genuinely scary.
Finally, New Years greetings from me, with Francesca.
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – So on Christmas Day I abandoned exotic gear and manual settings. I set my Panasonic GF1 in idiot mode, with face recognition focus and the flash turned on. Guess what. This really works for family events where you want snapshots without fail. I’ve put some of them up on my facebook page. These pages are supposed to be about serious photography. But in any event here’s Maria, evidently pleased by her Christmas present.
Maria and her new Emilio
