WAAREN CONNECTICUT – I strapped my 1945 Carl Zeiss Sonnar lens onto my Leica Monochrom today and went out into the blazing fall landscape shooting . . . black and white of course. This is a remarkable lens that renders the Fall light beautifully, providing greater transparency into shadows than a modern lens, and slightly diffused highlights.
Day 2187 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1822): New Milford Congregational Church. In the rain.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I drove up to Warren this morning, shooting with my Monochrom in good light as I went.
Say 2186 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1821): Black and White. Ok, it wasn’t a great day.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – What a crappy day. I could have gone out and captured images in the pouring rain, but I didn’t. Here’s an image of the RFK (nee Triborough) Bridge captured with a very long Leica R lens adapted to my Sony 7Rmii.
By the way, I’ve been putting up two posts a day for a while, catching up from the period when I was in Japan, China and San Francisco. Today I’m officially caught up (only a week behind which his my usual process) so I can go back to posting once a day.
Day 2185 of one photograph a day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1820): LUNCH. One of my favorite images of last year.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – On the West Side today running some errands with my Leica Monochrom a a 24mm Summilux lens in hand.
Day 2184 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 1088): Ground Fog
PINE PLAINS NEW YORK – I had a busy, fragmented day today. I’m driving up here on a weekly basis working on settling matters in an estate that I’m executor of. I don’t find much to inspire me in Pine Plains. Today I shot around with my iPhone 6.
Day 2183 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 722): Guggenheim Museum in NY, Frank Lloyd Wright’s mid-50s masterpiece. We live just down the street from the Guggenheim so I see it almost daily but I’ve struggled photographing it. This is my favorite of the images that I’ve taken of it.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – As I go about my day I look for parking lots and vacant lots – missing teeth in the structure of the city. They often permit points of view or light that wouldn’t be possible otherwise.
Today I’m back to shooting with my Leica Monochrom and a modern 50mm Asp. Summicron lens, in this case three frames stitched. I’ve taught myself to stitch reliably and do so every day at this point. The stitched image produces a very large file – larger than the highest resolution digital medium format cameras – which means that there are enough pixels that I can correct converging vertical lines in Photoshop and still have good resolution at the top of the frame. It turns out that this works better for me than the traditional way of avoiding converging verticals, a shift lens, because of the problem of decreasing image quality as you approach the edge of the shifted lens’s image circle. Anyway . . .
Day 2182 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1817): Madison Avenue. Another three frame stitch with my Monochrom with converging vertical lines corrected in Photoshop
WHITE PLAINS NEW YORK – A lesson that I learned decades ago in Brazil about landscape: on some days there is time where the light is somewhere between magnificent and magical. When that happens, stop what you’re doing (in this case driving), point the camera at anything and shoot. It doesn’t matter what. It’s the light that matters. Here are water bottles at a gas station on the Hutchinson River Parkway. Still shooting with the Carl Zeiss lenses from the 1930s. Amazing,
Day 2181 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 720): Riverside Park
