MANHATTAN – I walked from home down to the Standard Hotel on the Highline to attend a book party for our old friend Ken Auletta. Shot with my Sony A7rii converted to black and white only.
Day 3154 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this date three years ago (day 2058 of one photo every day): Advertising in Little Egypt
MANHATTAN – I stopped by B&H today to check out what’s going on there and to return a defective lens. Really good area to shoot in.
Day 3143 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 2778 of one photo every day): Power plant on 11th Avenue. I reprocessed this image.
MANHATTAN – Still shooting wide. A poor day for me visually – I had trouble getting into the moment.
Day 3142 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this date last year (day 2777 of one photo every day): Bokeh again. Shot last year with a Leica Q, a camera that I owned briefly and didn’t care for. It has a fixed 28mm lens, actually an excellent lens, but a focal length that I don’t care for because it’s the equivalent of an iPhone perspective and is accordingly “common”. As you will see the lens’s bokeh is slightly edgy.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Still shooting wide – today with the lovely Zeiss Batis 25mm.
Day 3141 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day six years ago (day 950 of one photo every day): Harleys and Seagrams Building
NEW YORK NEW YORK – More studies today, continuing another thread that I’m working on: shooting very wide. Shooting the Sony A7riii with the excellent Sony 12-24mm zoom. Today’s images are shot at 16mm and 21mm. This lens’s theoretical performance fades when zoomed higher that 18mm, but in practice the 21mm image looks fine. I enjoy working wide; I like this lens a lot.
Day 3140 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 2044 of one photograph every day): Look up
MANHATTAN – Another day shooting real wide with my new 12-24 Sony G lens. One issues shooting cityscape or landscape with a very wide lens is the following: the lens really needs to be level or the perspective gets weird. That generally means that there is too much foreground – half the frame filled with the ground. The solutions are to crop to square, cropping the foreground out, or as I’ve done today, find something to fill the foreground. Working wide results in a lot of near-far images.
Day 3132 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this date eight years ago (day 211 of one photo every day): Citicorp Center One of my favorite images from this project.
MANHATTAN – Outside of the Metropolitan Museum.
Day 3128 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this date three years ago (day 2032 of one photo every day): Late Spring Fog Warren CT
