Category: Landscape

Tuesday May 24. 2011

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I’m in a quandry about my medium format camera gear. I like the Hasselblad very well as a camera, but the digital back part of it has some shortcomings when used on a technical camera. The way my shooting style has evolved most of my medium format shooting is being done on a tech camera. So I spent this morning with a demo Phase One IQ 180 back at Digital Transitions. This is out their window looking accross 35th Street. Alpa Max camera with a 36mm Schneider APO lens and a Phase One IQ 180 back:

35th Street
35th Street

On this day one year ago: Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Film Society

Sunday May 22, 2011

WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Here we are, back outside in the rain with my Alpa in hand. Actually on a tripod. Rain intensifies the browns and greens in the landscape so this is a nice opportunity to get close. Here are two samples from a series. These were taken with my Alpa TC, a 48mm Schneider APO lens and a Hasselblad digital back. Both images were made with focus stacks. I made seven exposures in each case, with each exposure focusing on a different point, and combined them with a software package called Helicon Focus. This results in much greater depth of field than could be obtained otherwise.

Ferns Warren
Ferns Warren

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Rain
Rain

On this day last year: Brunch at CT.

CT

Saturday May 21, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Most of the bushes and shrubs around our Warren house flower at some point between April and July, and everything turns invitingly green during this period. From a photographic standpoint it’s a little bit of a distraction because I doubt that MOMA or Pace will be showing any dynamic new photographers specializing in flowering shrubs any time soon. But nonetheless this pretty conventional landscape is hard to resist, so I spent the weekend wandering around with my Alpa and Hasselblad digital back.

Shade Warren CT
Shade Warren CT

On this day one year ago: Walking back from lunch. The restaurant that I mentioned in this post last year closed with no notice under mysterious circumstances. They just put a sign out saying they were closed. They had received excellent reviews and were always packed. The rumor mill suggests that it was something to do with the owner’s divorce or a litigation involving employee tips. Too bad.

Manhattan

Friday May 20, 2011

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Have I mentioned the weather lately? I’m sort of a puffy clouds in a blue sky kind of guy. There hasn’t been much of that around here lately. We’ve had a storm system settle down on top of us, like a mother-in-law coming to visit for a couple of days but staying for a month. This was taken on Third Avenue with my Leica M9 and a 135mm APO Telyt.

Rain, rain go away
Rain, rain go away

On this day last year: View from poker game venue.

New York Financial District at Night

Monday May 16, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m writing this about a week after I took the picture for May 16. The one week delay in posting gives me a chance to sort through images hopefully making an non-rushed decision on what to post. The scene out my window was the same as it was then and has been unchanged all month. We’ve had the rainiest May in memory. It’s as if the weather system has its coasts mixed up – you might expect this in Seattle but not here. This is three frames stitched with my Leica M9 and 135mm APO Telyt.

Rooftops in the fog
Rooftops in the fog

On this day one year ago: farm stand.

Farmstand