Greenpoint Brooklyn. One of the things that you can do with oil slicks if you are shooting digital raw, and have something like Lightroom – is individually tune the brightness of each color, which is what I did here to try and make it as contrasty as possible. No can do with b&w film. No can do if you are shooting b&w jpg. The ability to tune the intensity / hue etc. of colors in [more]
View from my apartment – 7th street between avenue B and A, looking south.
I’ve been looking for some time for a poem about New York that I really liked. I found several, one by Whitman – but this is one that made me chuckle, besides capturing the spirit of the city. I WANT NEW YORK by Ogden Nash I think those people are utterly unreliable Who say they’d be happy on a desert island with a copy of the Biable And Hamlet (by Shakespeare) and Don Quixote (by [more]
When I have nothing better to do, I stop by the place on second avenue where they babysit the neighborhood dogs during the day while the owners are off making money. Sometimes I can hang out by the window for a half-hour before I’m chased away. Sometimes less. For the most part, whether I’m photographing buildings, people, or just about anything where I’m hanging around for a while, I am always chased away by someone. [more]
Canon T1i with 30mm lens. ISO 3200.
I was esp. curious about how the flames, very real flames would show up with the infrared camera.
