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.
Micro Four-Thirds
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.
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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Palm Trees, Bark, and LAB color
Went to Florida a couple of weeks ago and the palm trees always interest me with their super-textured bark, overlapping scale-like thingees and how they render. Using my Olympus E-M1.2, I took a bunch of photos. Then the post processing. One was particularly photogenic, so I brought it into Lightroom for iPad and use Black-and-White mode, tweaking the color sliders to get the contrast that I wanted. Then I ran it through Color Grading, which has rapidly become my goto for processing B&W. Many, many years ago in the 80’s I used to tone BW prints with either Selenium or
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The Bench
I have this teak bench in my back yard that gets the most glorious sun very late in the afternoon. Throughout the year, it looks different with the seasons. This week it snowed and I looked outside my office window and saw it was bathed in the late afternoon sun. I had less than 5 minutes to run outside and grab this 2-shot pano.
My adventures with LAB color
I’ve been experimenting with a Photoshop technique that has intriguing me after working with a friend in the Essex Photo Club. I’m sure it’s been done before, but it’s essentially a way to extract very subtle color from subjects that are otherwise fairly colorless. My usual target is bark, as it’s mostly monochromatic. It’s a multi-step process and I am still learning 1. White Balance the RAW file before it comes in to push the image as neutral as possible. 2. Bring it into Photoshop as a Smart Object so that you can re-apply Camera Raw if needed.3. Convert it
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