MANHATTAN – What a day. I visited Oliver at home, did some head shots for Maria at her office and walked all over Manhattan getting from here to there. Very nice early Spring light. Given the headshot assignment I was carrying a lot of gear, which I hate, but it clearly pays to have the right tools.
Day 3449 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Chrysler BuildingManhattan AbstractStainless SteelLexington AvenueOliverheadshot
On this date eight years ago (day 527 of one photograph every day): big tree shadow.
MANHATTAN – I’ve been experimenting for the last few days with simplifying my equipment. I’m carrying my Sony a7riii with one lens, the Sony GM 24-70 f2.8 zoom.
I generally don’t like zooms, they suffer from image quality issues relative to prime lenses, and they tend to be bulky. This lens is indeed bulky but it’s easier to manage than three primes and it covers the focal lengths that I use on a daily basis. Also if I want tighter than 70mm the camera’s 42 meg sensor facilitate cropping in a pinch, and for wider than 24 I can stitch frames (which I do all the time).
It turns out that this lens performs well corner to corner by f4.0 at focal lengths 35-70mm and at 50 to 70mm is actually fine wide open (“fine” is high praise from me). It’s very good corner to corner at 28mm but much less so at 24mm, so a decent strategy is to limit wides to 35mm and stitch. I’ve been torturing it with back lit situations and shooting bokeh oriented images – it’s actually excellent to my eyes in both respects. So I’ll keep going with it for a while to further understand its quirks in actual use. The images below are both at 24mm.
Day 3420 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Fifth AvenueKnickerbocker Club
On this date nine years ago (day 133 of one photo every day): Times Square at night.
NEW MILFORD CONNECTICUT – We drove up to Connecticut today and stopped for lunch at DinerLuxe in New Milford, a truly excellent riff on the classic diner. Shot with my Sony A7riii and 16mm lens.
Day 3410 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
DinerLuxe
On this date six years ago (day 1219 of one photo every day): Power plant.
