Tag: New York

Monday February 13, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday February 19, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I had lunch with Alexander at Gallaghers so I found myself in the Broadway Times Square area after lunch. The light was magnificent. I had a very good several hours so I’ve made a mini gallery. All taken with my Sony Nex-7 and Leica 24 mm Summilux lens.

After a few weeks use I’m convinced that the Nex-7 and cameras like it (“mirrorless” designs with good ergonomics and build quality) are the way forward for owners of Leica lenses. Fuji has announced a similar design.

On this day one year ago: Dirty snow.

Tags Manhattan, New York, Times Square

Street

Friday February 10, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday February 16, 2012

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – So here I am on Park Avenue, lurking with my Nex-7 and 35mm Summilux lens in gorgeous morning light, capturing the run up to St. Valentine’s Day.

On this day one year ago: Park Avenue Straight Up. Day two of the film experiment.

Tags Manhattan, New York, Park Avenue, Valentines Day

Landscape Street Urban

Thursday February 9, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday February 15, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I finally go out with my camera (Nex-7 with 24mm Summilux lens) after a full day of meetings. Captured this on Lexington Avenue. Oddly, last year’s picture on this day was taken at night a block away. With film! A brief, not very successful, fling with film.

On this day last year: Park Avenue at night. Note the scratch running most of the length of the photo – something that I commented on extensively last year.

Tags Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York

Events and holidays Family and friends

Wednesday February 8, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday February 15, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We hosted a dinner party for our friend Jonathan Galassi as a benefit for the Pen America Center (Maria is on the board and Treasurer of Pen). Jonathan read from his new book of poetry – not out yet but Maria had arranged for Jonathan’s publisher, Knopf, to send bound galleys out to guests before the dinner.

I worked through the party with my Sony Nex-7 and a 35mm Leica Summilux. For an event the lens worked much better for me than the Sony Zeiss 24mm: I’m familiar with the feel of its manual focus and manual focus was faster and more accurate than autofocus with the Zeiss because of its tendency to “hunt” in poor light. I didn’t get a picture that I liked of Jonathan. Here are a couple of other friends.

On this day one year ago: Hello Kitty is no more.

Tags New York, Parties, Publishing

Events and holidays Family and friends

Sunday February 5, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday February 11, 2012

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Well, well, well. Here we are on Super Bowl Sunday and New York has a horse in the race. One of the great surprises of the regular season. We had a dozen or so friends over to watch the game and eat chili, corn chips, salsa, empanadas and so on, and to drink a dozen obscure varieties of beer (once again I found some Full Sail IPA) and some pretty decent wines. I shot the festivities with my Nex-7 and the 24mm Sony Schneider. As you will see from the image below ambient light was not all that low, but it still hunted like the devil focusing. A big problem at events. But the image quality is very nice.

From earlier in the day. Taken in Warren with m Alpa Max and 72mm Schneider lens. Two frames stitched.

On this day last year: ice storm.

Tags New York, Parties, Sporting events

Street Transportation

Wednesday February 1, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday February 7, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – One the Lexington Avenue local with my iPhone.

On this day one year ago: Third Avenue in vile weather.

Tags Manhattan, New York, Subway

Landscape Urban

Tuesday January 31, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday February 7, 2012

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.

Tags Central Park, Central Park West, Manhattan, New York