NEW YORK, NEW YORK – The Holiday season continues. This is our friend Chuck Klein at John and Anne Herrmann’s Holiday party.
On this day one year ago: Dallas Fort Worth Airport.
Sunday December 19, 2010
Saturday December 18, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A family evening. Our son, Alexander, and his fiance, Laura, had holiday party. Here are Maria and our daughter, Francesca, looking at ideas for bridesmaids dresses online. Panasonic GF1 and 14mm pancake lens.
On this day last year: Lipstick Building and friends, shot in infrared
Friday December 17, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I’ve taken advantage of a Hasseblad offer the upgrade my H3D-39 to the latests H4D-60. That’s a medium format system with 60 megs of resolution. I’ve spent a fair amount of time working with a piece of equipment called HTS 1.5 and the new camera – it adds the ability to tilt and shift lenses (as one can on a view camera). The HTS 1.5 provides 18mm of shift in either direction. So theoretically f you do three images, one centered, one with the lens shifted all the way left and the other shifted all the way right, in portrait orientation, and stitch them, you end up with a frame in landscape orientation with a perfect 2×3 aspect ratio and pixel dimensions of 12,762 x 8,488, for a whopping 108 megs. Nice but does this actually work?
The image below was captured with the Hasselblad 100mm lens and the HTS 1.5 – three images with the HTS 1.5 shifted as above and stitched in Photoshop.
Here’s a 1:1 crop from the left side of the image – the Robert Kennedy Bridge (formerly the Triborough Bridge) at night.
This is very impressive – I’m going to have some fun with this thing.
On this day last year: Shopping on Fifth Avenue.
Thursday December 16, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – The New York chapter of the Commanderie de Bordeaux had its Holiday dinner (featuring an ’82 Palmer) at the Union Club. Here are some musicians at the event. My Panasonic GF1 is getting a workout this week – it’s discrete and pocketable, and has ok low-light performance (as you may have noticed I work only in available light). The Union Club is the grandest of Delano & Aldrich’s New York structures; in situations like this I like to shoot wide to take advantage of the context. Shot with a 14mm pancake lens on the GF1.
On this day one year ago: infrared image of Citicorp Center.
Wednesday December 15, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – The Waldorf Astoria. Here’s a Wikipedia article on this deco landmark. The photograph is taken with my Leica M9 and my new 36mm Summilux II lens, with a neutral density filter to permit shooting at f 1.4 in daylight. More work on out of focus images. The overexposed area in the lower right is intentional – dramatic overexposure can result in a banding artifact with some digital cameras – I removed some banding in this image in Photoshop.
On this day one year ago: Brooklyn Bridge
Tuesday December 14, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Self portrait with the Panasonic GF1:
On this day last year: Bunny Beekman at the Four Seasons Restaurant
Monday December 13, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – The Christmas party at the Knickerbocker Club shot with my Panasonic GF1 and a 14mm pancake lens.
On this day one year ago: Dinner at Quatorze Bis
