#youcaptionitdlb Think I'll go back to reposting some of my funnier New York moments. These fall under that You Give It A Title idea. My Bookends title is just boring.
#sleepysaturday
Tourist Bookends
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Here's a repost for the last few thousand that have circled me since I posted this. It's part of a crusade to save energy and to help create better pictures the world over.
It tells the story of how useless it is to use flash when you are far away from a subject, but it is not anti-flash. Some of my favorite photographers use flash 
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When Camera Flash Is Useless
Light drops off by the square of the distance and why should you care? Were you ever in a stadium with thousands of fans, and most of them are a quarter of a | When Camera Flash Is Useless
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#infraredpaintingdlb
From an infrared shot with digital modified camera / and then "painted" with NIK software.
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Every so often, during the summer, Park Avenue is opened up for bike traffic and cars are banned. This was shot from beneath the Helmsley Arch (if that's what it's called) and then given the VisualPalindrome treatment.
Which is to say that the right side is a mirror of the left side.
So if you are coming to New York for the first time – don't going looking for this view – since it doesn't exist.
#photostorydlb #paintitsaturday
Park Avenue, Visual Palindrome
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Central Park North looking West, Photomatix
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#palindromedlb and #infraredpaintingdlb and the kitchen sink went into this one.
Uhm, oh it is available as a file or print at the usual place: http://www.beckermanphoto.com/croton-reservoir-color-palindrome.html
+Andrew Gordon I'd love to return to some of these spots or look for new ones for day trips. I got a lot of mileage out of those trips we took.
#paintitsaturday
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Infrared / HDR / NIK Software
From Top of the Rock
Very straight forward processing for this from digital modified IR camera
Pretty standard use of the dreaded "rule of thirds."
Also a rule that I may have invented, which is to try and get as much good stuff in the frame as possible, in this case the ESB and the Statue of Liberty.
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Infrared, Winter, Back to a favorite subject
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Infrared view of Dancing Girls, Central Park. www.BeckermanPhoto.com
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(All quotes certified to be verbatim. A result of viewers of www.BeckermanPhoto.com)
"mr. Beckerman
can u tell me a good camera 2 take pics of the sky. thanx"
"Hi Dave, I love your work. I have a new digital camera that my husband gave me for Xmas and I can't figure out how to make it take black & white pics. I began reading the manual but then one of my kids borrowed the camera and the manual and now the manual is gone. Any help would be appreciated."
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Public Library, 41st and Fifth Avenue
Photograph with the GorillaPod Tripod
#colorpaintingdlb
I took this on the stairway, going up to the second floor (rotunda). No place to put down a tripod without being chewed out by guards. But the GorillaPod, which can be carried in a small bag does the trick if you steady it against whatever is around – in this case the stair railing.
This was three bracketed stops processed with Photomatix and NIK Software.
High Resolution files and prints from: http://www.beckermanphoto.com/chandelier-new-york-public-library-color.html
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