NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’ve been experimenting with longer lenses recently (basically working my way through my inventory of less-used lenses), shooting a 90mm elmarit today and shooting multiple images and stitching when I want to shoot wide, which is often. The large stitches produce very detailed, lovely files.
Day 1,789 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
This one is nine frames.
On this day two years ago (day 1,059): Toss it to me!
KENT CONNECTICUT – There was a moment of lovely light in Kent Connecticut on the way to the trail head for our hike today, so a stopped and caught the local brick gothic Episcopal Church.
Day 1,788 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1,423): beaddboard.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Some days I just need to fuss with my gear a bit. I just got a classic 50mm Summilux lens back from minor repairs and cleaning in Wetzlar. It’s been a while since I shot with it (I’m holding it for investment a this point) but I thought that I should shoot it side by side with my current favorite 50mm lens, the Leica 50mm Summicron Asph. Shooting a bookcase close with a distant bright background is a chance to test corner resolution, focus accuracy, contrast, tendency to veiling flair and most importantly, “bokeh”, the quality of the out-of-focus portions of the image. Here’s the image for the 50mm Summicron Asph. which wins on all counts.
Day 1,787 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1,422): Back lit manhole cover.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – These days dhe Park Avenue traffic islands feature installations of sculpture by Ewerdt Hilgemann, muscular constructions of stainless and rusted steel. Here’s an example.
Day 1,786 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1.056): power plant.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Still cycling through my wide lenses making sure that wide is still my comfort zone. This is with the Leica 21mm Super-Elmar.
Day 1,785 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 689): Rainy day.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – More super wide. I’m cycling through my very wide lenses confirming to myself that I’ve still got my wide angle mojo. Today it was the Leica 21mm Super-Elmar, a super lens.
Day 1,784 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 323): 57th Street. An elegant angle on 57th Street, shooting infrared.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Egregiously wide today. I was out and about with my Carl Zeiss 15mm lens which is really wide and a handful to handle. The lens requires great pains to shoot level to avoid radically weird vertical ones. This means that there is a lot of foreground which one handles by cropping to square. Just think of this as a square format lens.
Day 1,783 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 322): Park Avenue.
