New York Photography Blog

is still a kiss…

I’m texting in the rain,
Just texting in the rain,
What a glorious feeling,
I’m texting  again…

“So what lens do you find yourself using the most with the 5D.”

Canon 50mm @ f1.4 / ASA 1600

Dave, please – no more cat pics.

I know, I know.  But now I’m busy now and he remains my best and cheapest model.

Does wordpress compress these jpgs again…?  The difficult transitions between black and mid-tones (lower left corner) aren’t nearly as smooth as what I see in PS or LR of the same size / resolution image.  Doesn’t matter on this shot – but it does crop up once in a while.

Ty doesn’t want to see any more portraits of Buddy.  But there have been photographers who’ve made a nice income just photographing dogs and cats.  What’s the name of the guy who photographs dogs in various costumes?  On the upper east side, I think I could make a good living photographing pets.  And the truth is, I’m more in tune with animals than people.  I’ve been working, in my spare time to put together a portfolio of pet portraits and eventually I’m going to offer that as a service.

Candid Pet Portraits.  If you live in Manhattan, I’ll show up at your house and do portraits of your pet – and you’ll get a bunch of wallet sized images and a nice big one.  Maybe 11 x 14 or even super big.  I can tell you that I enjoy working with animals much more than doing candid shots of people; esp. these days where you get kicked around for just about any sort of candid shot.  I could even move to France where you aren’t allowed to shoot people on the street, and just do Parisian Pets.  Yeah, there’s an idea.

Well there was a big flourish of applications when I first made the announcement but so far I only have 12. Photobloggers lined up.

This is not surrprising because it is something new. It is a bit confusing as to what is going to happen, you are asking bloggers to give up one post to another photographer and as I stated photographers are by nature self absorbed and not joiners.

Of course I share these faults.

It is also possible that I haven’t done enough yet to publicize the idea.

On the other hand 15 is enough to start with.

I just thought that given the benefit there would have been more interest

I have had steve r. Test it with blogspot. Works fine, though even with his proging background he was surprised by the results.

I suppose it would help to be seen, and to remember that Rome she was not built on a day.
DB

Someday I’ll put all my ‘Become Your Dream’ shots together.  De La Vega lives nearby.  I’m not sure that this one is his… no fish.  Of course the guy, who was making a delivery to a nearby bar sees me.  Not everyone did.  In fact he was the only one that noticed me shooting through the hole.  28mm f11.  I was just a few inches away from the board.  Generally the 28mm is too short for me, but I always have it with me and here it comes in handy.

I also did some shooting at H (3200).  I don’t know if it’s this particular camera, or if my eyes are going, but in a well-lit spot where I tested, I didn’t think noise / grain whatever you call it was bad at all on the 5d.  To my eye, better than 1600 on the 40D.  In other words – you can use it, as opposed to the higher end ASAs on other cameras I’ve had that I would never use.

The Other Side of the Dream

HERE’S THE PAGE WITH THE “Society of PhotoBloggers” application form.

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TEST THE CODE IN YOUR PHOTOBLOG

also contains code for a Photoblogger Society Badge.

THE ORIGINAL POST

Here’s the idea. Apply to the YOUR PHOTOBLOG DAY group for admission. For now, you can just add your photoblog url, your site title, and your RSS feed as a comment to this post.

Imagine that one day you go browsing to your favorite photoblog and there’s a post which shows a few images from another photoblogger. You don’t think much of it, but later you go to another site and see the same images linking to photographer x. And before you know it, you find that wherever you go, photobloggers have linked to photographer x en masse. I think that would be cool, productive, and not that hard to organize.

ONE ISSUE I SEE is that not everyone’s BUZZBOOST (that’s how this is done) is going to fit into your site. Matt’s is an example that will blow your columns apart. However, BUZZBOOST will also supply a TEXT VERSION which shouldn’t hurt anything on your blog. So that’s really up to you. I’d rather have the html version with pictures etc. but if the photoblogger is using images that are too large to fit your site, you can use the TEXT version.

It works on the honor system, since I’m not going to check sites to see if you are doing this, but if you don’t, you’ll be kicked out.

Once accepted (and not everyone will be accepted since you don’t want to publicize junk) you’d be added to a mailing list and when it’s time for A MEMBER to have his moment in the sun, an email goes out with the Feedburner Code HTML code and you just post the html code into a new post, with the suggested post title.

You couldn’t have more than 365 members… and in fact I expect it would be maybe 50 members for a long time — but still to get a bump from 50 sites, all on the same day, I think that would be helpful and could only help your search engine rating.

Oh, and here’s an example in this blog of what a post might look like.  This is live, and will change as Matt Weber adds more images to his blog (really big images at that)

MATT WEBER PHOTOBLOGGER SOCIETY POST

DB

“Behind every beautiful thing,
There’s been some kind of pain.”

The more pain, the more images are filled with loving sentiments.  The poorer the community, the more churches.  And the lower the person is on the economic scales of the big city, the happier they are to be the center of attention for a few minutes.  Nobody here is going to tell me that this mural is private property.  Unless you are unlucky enough to point your camera at drug runners and lookouts, you will generally find the same sort of welcome you’d find if you wandered into a Mexican village.

It was close enough to lunchtime for me to buy two burritos from her (they are in the big pot that she pushes around in the shopping wagon) with some white rice and leaned against a rusted car enjoying the meal and exchanging smiles with her.

This one cries out for a title also.  I was thinking “frigid woman”  but I think that’s a term
from the 50’s that isn’t in use anymore.

Then I thought of Metropolitan Museum, Winter Annex

Her eyes were made with limes.

Unknown Artist (Central Park)