Yesterday I had my “best” day on flickr by far.  1300 views in a day when I ordinarily average somewhere below 300.  A four fold increase over the course of 24 hours.  There are views on individual photos as well as sets and my photostream in general (people who are “just browsing”).  One might inquire [...]

Posted in Technique, Theory 2 Comments »

June is a big month of photography in New York City. Its a month dripping with interesting things to do, happenings to attend, people to observe, and fine weather to enjoy.   My personal favorite events to photograph, the Mermaid Parade in Coney Island and the Queer Pride Parade in Manhattan usually fall on the same [...]

Posted in Technique, Theory No Comments »

Originally I picked up the Russian made Zenitar 16mm lens for my Pentax K100D as a way to get a very wide angle lens without shelling out a great deal of money.   The K100D has a 1.5 crop factor which gets you an approximate 24mm lens.  As I refuse to buy digital only lenses my [...]

Posted in Product Review, Technique 1 Comment »

I’ve noticed that the majority of users on flickr do not watermark their images. They may add contact information into the exif data when they edit their images in photoshop but I’ve noticed that this usually does not carry over with an actual watermark on the image itself.  As you’ve seen in my blog and [...]

Posted in Technique 1 Comment »

Saturday marked two events on Wall Street.  One was the March On Wall Street and the other was World Pillow Fight Day. I’m somewhat sorry that after shooting the political event I didn’t stick around for the cultural one.  It was a brutally windy day and my cheap $10 East German coat wasn’t up to [...]

Posted in News, Technique No Comments »

One of the things that photography allows you to do is discover details from events and objects  that you stuck onto a negative or a harddrive somewhere and haven’t thought about for a while.   Once you open up the negative onto a print or pop your file into photoshop you have a second chance to [...]

Posted in Current Projects, Technique No Comments »

One of the things you tell beginning photographers is to “always have a camera on you”.   This is especially important for city dwellers as you never know what strange, wonderful, horrible thing will come walking down the street by itself or enmasse and you will kick yourself if you can’t take a picture. I’ve gotten [...]

Posted in Technique No Comments »

I had my first “official” editorial shoot a few days ago. One of my goals for this year was to get into doing portraiture.   I finally have a portable kit (sorta… my main camera is a mamiya RB67 which makes a Hasselblad look like a child’s toy)  and I was running out of excuses [...]

Posted in Technique No Comments »

To speak about High Dynamic Range we first need to define what we mean by Dynamic Range. In photography your dynamic range (which is used in other fields such as music, electronics, and meteorology) is referring to luminescence.    This is relative luminescence as we can capture scenes which are very dark (night scenes) to very [...]

Posted in Technique No Comments »

Photography is a wonderfully democratic form of art. You point, you point, you shoot, you get a print.  The digital revolution has made it even easier, you point, you shoot, you email your shots to your friend or post it to your blog.  If you want to kick it old school, fire off 36 frames [...]

Posted in Product Review, Technique No Comments »