NEW YORK NEW YORK – Out my window.
On this day one year ago: Princeton.
Category: Urban
Thursday May 10, 2012
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I took a break from my landscape class and took this on the plaza outside of the ICP’s educational center with my Leica M9 and Noctilux. Two frames stitched.
On this day one year ago: Shy pedestrian.
Tuesday May 8, 2012
NEW YORK NEW YORK – What’s going on here? Hint: It’s right in the middle of Manhattan. Actually Lever House – that sensational Skidmore tribute to the Mad Men era. A Japanese maple with some collapsed umbrellas in the background. Taken with my Leica M9 and a . . . Noctilux. At f.95.
On this day one year ago: Monster tree. There are those Callery Pears agains.
Friday May 4, 2012
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I got a new lens today. A Leica Noctilux – affectionately known as a “Nocti”. Further evidence of my infatuation with exotic gear. The Nocti has been backordered for a year or more. At f.95 it’s the fastest still camera lens around. Big and heavy. The point of this lens is to shoot it wide open so I also bought a neutral density filter which permits shooting at f.95 in daylight. I clamped the Nocti onto my Sony Nex-7 and took a walk up Broadway. The focusing with the Nex-7 was a little disappointing. F.95 demands very accurate focus and the Nex didn’t deliver – only about half of the images from the day were technically good. Here is a sampling.
I ended up at the James Beard Foundation Media Awards:
On this day one year ago: Rain.
Thursday May 3, 2012
NEW YORK NEW YORK – The site of a gas explosion six years ago. Still a vacant lot.
On this day one year ago: Library at home.
Friday April 27, 2012
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Another gray unappealing day. Where do these thing come from? I really take better pictures in nice light. Anyway, I shot in the 23rd Street area for a bit today and came up with this, shooting with my Sony NEX-7 and Leica 24mm Summilux. In editing images today i started an experiment with the “soft proofing” feature in Lightroom, new to the relatively recent version 4.0. It predicts what your picture will look like in print or on the web, overcoming a slight bias toward printing too task and flat if you don’t soft proof.
On this day one year ago: a pretty neat shot.
Thursday April 26, 2012
NEW YORK NEW YORK – A rainy day, but the wetness made the colors delicious. Here’s the Zen of Citibank. Two frames stitched taken with my Sony Nex-7 and a 24mm Leica Summilux lens.
On this day last year: Nan Graham.
