NEW YORK NEW YORK – I met a friend (actually Maria’s godson) for lunch on the West Side today and walked home across Central Park. It was that “grazing light” moment on CPW so I concentrated on building facades. This happens every sunny day but sometimes – like today – it works out better than others.
Day 1,777 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day one year ago: Columbia Gorge.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – It’s St. Valentine’s Day. I walked across Central Park to shop for valentines gifts, carrying my Leica Monochrome and a 24mm Leica Summilux lens. I put a .9 neutral density filter on the lens permitting it to shoot in daylight wide open at f1.4, giving very narrow depth of field, but requiring exacting technique. Three examples.
On this day one year ago: Painting.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Met my daughter for breakfast on the West Side. Caught this view of The Majestic as I walked back through the park to my office. Captured with my Sony Nex-7 and my Leica 24mm Summilux lens. The cool thing about having 24 mess of resolution is that when you do extreme perspective corrections in Lightroom or Photoshop there is still enough resolute to print the image large (it took an extreme perspective correction to fix the converging vertical lines on this one – something that I had planned when I captured the image).
On this day one year ago: This is not a good portrait of a friend. Really. But some of the goofballs who follow this blog rated it four stars. Go figure.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I spent the morning in a snow-covered Central Park. A few interesting images. Here’s a view of the El Dorado, one of three large building on Central Park West built by Emory Roth (the others are the Beresford and the San Remo). This is a common angle on the building, across the Central Park Reservoir. Two frames taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60, with a 300 mm lens on a monopod. This is another example of how well this camera’s files convert to black and white.
On this day one year ago: From Bryant Park.
