NEW YORK NEW YORK – Trash today.
Day 2,763 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 2398): Time
Category: Urban
NEW YORK NEW YORK – More work on “bokeh”, the quality of the out of focus portions of the image. I’m getting lovely bokeh from my Leica 50mm Luxochrom stopped down a stop or two. Wide open it has the “nervous” bokeh typical of highly corrected lenses.
Day 2,752 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 2,021): Manhattan
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Out and about today with my Leica Monochrom and a very special lens: a Leica 35mm Summicron version IV that was manufactured in 1982, the so-called “bokeh king”. This lens does indeed have fairly creamy bokeh (the character of the out of focus portions of images) so I shot subjects that provided an opportunity to demonstrate bokeh. You may remember that I’m reviewing my whole lens collection on the subject of bokeh.
Day 2,748 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 2383): Red brick. Stitched from many frames.
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Wednesday April 19, 2017
NEW YORK NEW YORK – A major swoop. Homage to the 1950s. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 24mm Summichron lens.
Day 2743 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 1,282): Grand Central. Translated to black and white.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – My one-photograph-every-day project is heavily weighted toward landscape and cityscape. Each season presents challenges to the landscape photographer. The problem with Spring in New York is that after the dirty snow drift month of February and March, the lavishly flowering parks here have an irresistible attraction. But as I review the work of other photographers I know that pictures of flowers generate little or no interest. I should add an “no flowers” rule to my “no pets” and “no cute kids” rules.
I shoot some floral duds in the Spring. This year I’m trying to circumvent the problem by shooting wide open with neutral density filter to at least separate out backgrounds. I’m cycling though all of the 50mm lenses that I own to sort out (again) what their out of focus images look like (the quality that is referred to as “bokeh”), Today the 50mm APO-Summicron is up – the lens that I refer to as the Luxocron.
Day 2,736 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 2,006): Connecticut backlit.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Out with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm APO Summicron lens. Lovely Spring light today so I shot with pretty good effect.
Day 2,735 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 1639): Alley
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back here at last. I experimented today with my 15mm Carl Zeiss super=wide lens. Sorting through thirty or forty images from the day there are none that I like – I don’t know whether its the focal length, the way the lens draws, or just an off day. It seems to fool the light meter in my Leica Monochrom – a lot of over-exposures despite â…” of negative exposure bias. It’s going back into my gear locker for now.
Day 2.734 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 2003): Spring? April can be a truly nasty month in Litchfield County Connecticut.
