NYC Taxi ICM 2
Number 2 taken out the window of a New York City taxi. Again, I love the colors and abstract nature.
NYC Taxi ICM 1
Taken out the window of a New York City taxi. Love the colors and abstract nature. I need to do more of this.
Watchung Winter Panorama
Great, early winter/late fall cold morning in the forest in the Watchung Reservation, a county park in Union Co NJ in Mountainside. About 1 hour after sunrise. Should have gone earlier, but the scene won’t change until the snow comes, so I can go back during December a bit earlier. Olympus E-M1, as usual with the superb 12-40. Two shots stitched.
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Calmness in Apalachicola
Just a calm, sunset scene on the Apalachicola Bay. Cropped out of an Olympus E-M1.2 shot in April, 2022.
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An evening in Asbury Park
Walked along the Asbury Park NJ boardwalk for a few minutes last week after sunset and a couple photos presented themselves. Nothing spectacular, But good nonetheless. I had to edit the first one a bit to remove some extraneous bits, but nothing major. All taken with the Olympus E-M1.2 and the 12-40/2.8 Zuiko.
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Ginkgo Leaves
Another year, another year of Ginkgos and leaves. I never cease to be amazed at the beauty of these ancient leaves with their wonderful color, vein pattern, and shape. There is no more classic leaf shape to me than these. I guess because I’ve lived in this house for 35 years and I have two huge, female trees that drop the stinky fruits. This year was a very, very dry year of fruits, thank goodness. Last year we have many, many thousands. This year just a few hundred. I just went outside two days in a row and and took
Bicycle Hoops
Was in the Finger Lakes, NY district over Columbus Day and got lots of neat photos. This black-and-white was a convert of a color photo also shown. I didn’t like the background, but the coincidence of the hoops was more important than the background, so that dictated by photo. I also loved the aqua-green hoops, but maybe it looks better in B&W, which highlights the geometric aspect of the composition vs. the color one. Show with my Olympus E-M1, as usual.
Backlit Grapes
Took a bunch of photos of wine grapes at the Three Brothers Winery in Seneca Falls, NY. I thought the backlighting was especially lovely with the backlit colors. I did a bunch of work on the original file with Lr for iPad to darken distracting elements. The second image has been reworked through TangeledFX, one of my favorite iPad artistic tools. I often layer the original and TangeledFX images together with Ps, but not with this one, were I put the original edited version along with the TFX version. Both are nice, IMO.
Fall Leaves – iPhone14
I know this is becoming a cliche, but it is amazing what the iPhone can do, especially the new iPhone14. These were taken about 30 min past sunset, handheld. The EXIF data says 1/5 sec at f/1.8. The ISO says <mixed>, whatever that is. It was quite dim here, distantly lit by a street lamp. I’m surprised at the clarity, the color richness, and the sharpness. It’s as “they” say, the best camera is the one you have with you. This was also shot in Apple Pro Raw 48bit, so it benefits from that, although I just opened the .HEIC
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Panorama Fountain – Noblex
I got a couple of nice photos on Seneca Lake with my Noblex 135 panoramic camera a few weeks ago. Delta 100 film shots. Required some multi-image scans and Ps compositing to hold detail in the fountain and the shadows both. These were taken on the Noblex 135U camera. I had to scan them twice, once for the shadows and once for the white fountain and blend them in Photoshop to get something usable. There was plenty of detail in both. There was a TON of white spots to fix, but the Photoshop Dust/Scratch filter handled most of that. I
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Shadows in Hartford
I’ve always loved urban shadow photos, but recently attended a talk with David S Wells, a well-known photographer from Rhode Island and he discussed and illustrated many of his now-famous vintage photography of urban shadow work, mostly from Philadelphia. I was in Hartford, CT for the Hartford Marathon (viewing, not running) and needed a bit of a diversion as we waiting the very boring time for our daughter to finish. So I started wondering around and found several neat photos that will definitely become part of my portfolio.The first was a neat image of a fire hydrant and the surrounding
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Infrared 590nm + R72 filter – Cranford, NJ
I have an Olympus E-M5 Mk1 that I had modified back 3-4 years ago by LifePixel to have a 590nm (Super Color) IR Filter. At the time, I had an unmodified, identical body, so it made sense to have two bodies exactly the same except one was IR and one was unmodified. The camera has served me well and I recently wanted to shoot it in pure black-and-white, vs. a Super Color image where I had to process it afterwards by swapping the R/B channels and tweaking the color channels to extract as much color information as possible. I had
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