MANHATTAN AND WARREN CONNECTICUT – Images of people today I shoot these with my Sony a7rii which, because of its eye focus feature, is an excellent tool for shooting people. The camera, combined with the very good 24-70 Sony GM lens, works ideally for people in context.
Day 3144 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this date seven years ago (day 587 of one photo every day): Metropolitan Club
MANHATTAN – I stopped by B&H today to check out what’s going on there and to return a defective lens. Really good area to shoot in.
Day 3143 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 2778 of one photo every day): Power plant on 11th Avenue. I reprocessed this image.
MANHATTAN – Still shooting wide. A poor day for me visually – I had trouble getting into the moment.
Day 3142 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this date last year (day 2777 of one photo every day): Bokeh again. Shot last year with a Leica Q, a camera that I owned briefly and didn’t care for. It has a fixed 28mm lens, actually an excellent lens, but a focal length that I don’t care for because it’s the equivalent of an iPhone perspective and is accordingly “common”. As you will see the lens’s bokeh is slightly edgy.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Still shooting wide – today with the lovely Zeiss Batis 25mm.
Day 3141 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day six years ago (day 950 of one photo every day): Harleys and Seagrams Building
NEW YORK NEW YORK – More studies today, continuing another thread that I’m working on: shooting very wide. Shooting the Sony A7riii with the excellent Sony 12-24mm zoom. Today’s images are shot at 16mm and 21mm. This lens’s theoretical performance fades when zoomed higher that 18mm, but in practice the 21mm image looks fine. I enjoy working wide; I like this lens a lot.
Day 3140 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 2044 of one photograph every day): Look up
WARREN CONNECTICUT – I spend a fair amount of time doing studies to develop specific technical or aesthetic issues. Today and for the next few days I’m working on rendering (how a lens renders three-dimensional objects and light and dark) and bokeh (how a lens renders out-of-focus subjects). I’m shooting with my Leica Monochrom and the wonderful 50mm Summicron Asph. lens – which I call the Luxocron. I’ve got a lot of experience with this combination – the rendering is lovely. On another day we’ll see how the same lens on the Sony A7riii renders similar subjects.
Day 3139 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this date six years ago (day 948 of one photo every day for the rest of my life): 11th Avenue project. Six years ago I photographed both sides of 11th avenue along a to block stretch in the 40s with a PhaseOne medium format camera, which I’ve subsequently sold.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Back to shooting with my Leica Monochrom and brilliant 24mm Summilux lens. I’m running side-by-side tests of this camera and my Sony A7riii, focusing on usability and actual results in practice, as opposed to brick walls. This is in our garden in Connecticut – it was a barren, thawing wasteland a month ago.
Day 3138 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 2042 of one photo every day): Sinister
