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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

New York City Marathon

This time I didn't spend so much energy trying to take portraits of exhausted faces.
2008 NYC marathon
One trick I did manage to make work was to crank up the aperture number and then crank down the shutter speed. As long as the spectators held relatively still I got a steady foreground and nice motion blurry runners.


2008 NYC marathon


2008 NYC marathon


2008 NYC marathon


2008 NYC marathon


2008 NYC marathon

Monday, May 25, 2009

Ladies in feathers

The sunny weather has inspired me to dig through the pictures of the West Indian Day parade that I had skipped over earlier. I have a hard time evaluating them because everything about that parade is such a spectacle. The full set is here if you'd like to see everything.


West Indian Day Parade 2008


West Indian Day Parade 2008


West Indian Day Parade 2008


West Indian Day Parade 2008


West Indian Day Parade


West Indian Day Parade


West Indian Day Parade


West Indian Day Parade


West Indian Day Parade


West Indian Day Parade
The one below has the smile and fills in that space on the right with a nice hoop earring circle but I like the attitude in the above version better. Plus I like the echo of her ice in how the guy's holding his phone. I decided/rationalized the scribbles on the truck was enough to hold up that side of the photo.
West Indian Day Parade


West Indian Day Parade


West Indian Day Parade
This last one is just fun to scroll past with that huge head piece she has. :)
Two that I cut at the last minute are this and this. Something about maybe the way the eyes are covered really keep my eyes engaged but I can't tell if that's a good thing or if they're lacking enough compositional flow to help my eye so I'm just getting lost. I welcome your input on this.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

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Self

Self Portrait
For the interior pictures for the Curbed sites I use a tripod and remote trigger. This way I get to keep a nice low ISO and I'm better able to compare what I see with my eyes versus what I'm seeing through the camera.

I don't know why I'm doing that weird twist with my foot.

And P.S. that was a beautiful bathroom. :)

Batgirl in crisis

Bitgirl in crisis
She was lost trying to get to a costume party and too many people were trying to help give her directions.

Long shadows

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Guardian of the grocery

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I have one with a person in the door as well but I think the flow works better with just the one person.

Time Warner vertical pano

Time Warner Center panorama
This is the first time I tried a panorama from up to down instead of side to side.

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