NEW YORK NEW YORK – A not so interesting day of working down my to-do list from my annual check-up.
Day 2433 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 982): Glacier melt in the high Alps
NEW YORK NEW YORK – A not so interesting day of working down my to-do list from my annual check-up.
Day 2433 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 982): Glacier melt in the high Alps
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Shooting around home in the late afternoon (after catching a Mets day game) I had a chance to shoot a number of subjects that required both HDR to lengthen the gray scale, and required multiple image stitches to create a filebigenough to correct perspective without loss of quality. The results were lovely in the case of the first image below. This far exceeds anything that I could have done in film shooting 4×5 and controlling perspective with view camera movements. The image required 18 exposures and about an hour’s work in post.
Day 2442 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life. Nice: 2442 is a palindrome.
On this day last year (day 2077): Villedieu France. This is a cat. I don’t photograph cute pets and I don’t care for cats. There do need to be occasional exceptions, however.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – In mid-town today with my Leica Monochrom.
Day 2441 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 2076): Villedieu France
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I took the L Train out to Brooklyn today, beyond Williamsburg, to check out the urban landscape. Heavy sunlight and dark shadows so I used the hand-held HDR technique that I’ve been working on to take the edge off.
Day 2440 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1710): Clamps
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Another day of experimenting with HDR, using it to improve shadow and highlight detail in images that don’t look like HDR.
Day 2439 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1709): Penguin House
WARREN CONNECTICUT – I’m experimenting today with HDR – that is using software to combine multiple exposures to achieve expanded tonal range. I hate most HDR images. Many are found in Instagram and other online venues. They usually look badly over-cooked and artificial. My objective is to use this technique to save subtle highlight and shadow detail, and to amp up local contrast, but only slightly. The technique require combining multiple exposures so I’m starting today on a tripod – thus the somewhat academic look to the images. I’ll give hand-held a go tomorrow. Shooting with my Leica Monochrom and 21mm Super-Elmar lens.
Day 2438 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 2073): Alley. One of my better images from my ongoing alleys project.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – We’re expanding a bedroom wing of our house here, anticipating future growth in our family. This is early stages. The framing is mostly complete but their are months of work ahead of us.
Day 2437 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day611): 9 Main.