One thing I love about Picturelife is how it bubbles up old pictures that I had forgotten about. Here's one of artist, poet, messenger bag mogul, and all-around-nice-guy Seldon from last year around this time.
Seldon
A blobby Manhattan Bridge. | Fujifilm X100S | f/2.0 | 1/8s | ISO250
Dilated
A routine eye exam resulted in dilated pupils and blurry vision for a few hours yesterday. I'm quite proud to say I have 20/20 vision, so not being able to see clearly is always an alien sensation for me. As an excercise, I decided to shoot a few images to illustrate how it felt.
I think my biggest takeaway from this exercise was that it forced me to re-focus (bam!) on some of the basics of composition - if you can't really see your subject, you have to pull back and compose the scene based on abstract attributes, like light and dark, color, and where the blobs of light are.
Anyway, it was a fun little exericise, but I'm always glad to return to clarity.
Superbowl Boulevard
A rare trip to Midtown brought me in the vicinity of Time Square today. Here are some photos of superbowl Boulevard, in anticipation of the Big Game this weekend.
Tunnel
Prospect Park Brooklyn, NY
Diggin' in the Crates, Photographically Speaking
Ghostface Killah at Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
Brooklyn, NY June 2007
Maritime and Tao
Meatpacking District November, 2013
Parkside Ave
The Highline Park and The Standard
On the Highline Park
Shot one afternoon during lunch.
Shooting the Shooter: Lev Kuperman
Lev Kuperman, Wedding Photographer
Meat Packing District, October 2012
Portrait of Random Strangers - 15th & 8th
One of the hardest things for me to do is shoot portraits of random strangers on the street. The afternoon light was just too good, though, so I made myself approach these guys and ask if I could shoot. I'm glad I did.
June 2013 - Chelsea, NYC
Siblings
Some of my favorite images from the Goldbergs' family session.
May, 2013 Central Park, NYC
Prospect Park
After Nemo
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
Nemo
The storm system dubbed Nemo by the Weather Channel begins to make itself felt in Chelsea, NY.
Photowalk: Prospect Park Deep Freeze
I braved the 20º weather in Prospect Park last weekend, all for the sake of a few photos, because that's how I roll.
The extended period of below-freezing temperatures meant that lake was frozen solid - enough so that a few souls more daring than I ventured out on the ice (that is not how I roll).
Brooklyn Bridge and FDR Drive
This image is far from perfect. The vibrations from car and train traffic on the Manhattan Bridge present a challenge when shooting long exposures. I was using my beloved old Canon G10, which doesn't seem to have the sharpest lens when shooting in low light, and struggles mightily with noise. Plus, there's no clear view of anything from the walkway on the Manhattan Bridge - it's all obscured by a chain link fence on top, and iron gratings below, so getting an unobstructed shot requires poking your lens awkwardly through an opening and bracing your tripod strategically, then waiting for the traffic to die down long enough to get a crisp shot. All that aside, I do like the colors in this shot a whole lot, so technical imperfections aside, I'm sharing it anyway.
The Brooklyn Bridge and the FDR Drive, as seen from the Manhattan Bridge
Busta Rhymes & Co.
A few shots from this year's Advertising Week opening night concert. More images on Fiickr.
Hoops
A young boy watches some street ball being played at the courts in the Parade Grounds at Prospect Park.
Fashion's Night Out
I accidentally got myself caught amongst the throngs of fashionistas swarming Broadway during Fashion's Night Out last week. Thankfully, I missed the rioting, but I did feel very pedestrian in my standard Old Navy/Banana Republic that I was probably wearing.
The stylish throngs massing on Broadway
Moonrise
The moon rising in the clear evening sky over Manhattan.
