Greetings, this blog is dedicated to my life in photography. I want to make this a place to stop and relax. In the hope that this will help in these trying times
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Friday, April 18, 2014
This could be it
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Some pictures just happen
That is is you keep your eyes open and you camera is ready. This shot dates from around 1984 when auto focus and auto anything were still in the future and i fought auto focus tooth and nail and still hate it. In those days we used so called hyper focus settings on our lenses using the depth of field scale and aligning your F stop to the infinity marker so that you had a great area in which all was in focus. more or less. I used my newly purchased used Nikon S-2 with a superb Nikkor 35mm F 3.5 and my trusted Tri-X. This person just happened to be running flipping arms and scarf like a bird. I just took the shot. One, that is. No motor drives or other tools that have made photography the realm of medicrities.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Another archival shot
This photo dates from 1972 and was shot om Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Little Italy. The camera was the Leica M-4 with the 50mm Summicron lens and naturally the film was Tri-X.Such displays were possible then. Now the Board of Health would prohibit this. Too bad we must live under this nanny state of mind.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
I do not know about you, but this scares me.
Google has applied for a contact lens camera patent. Nobody is now safe nor is there any privacy left. Very serious business.
If you are the kind of person who gets really pissed off and uncomfortable at the thought of
somebody recording you on Google Glass, the search engine company's latest
patent application will probably make you feel even more pessimistic about the future. In
January Google announced its smart contact lens project and now has
filed a patent application for a micro camera module to be added to with the
smart lenses.
We are seriously screwed. This is a departure from this post's avoidance of any political or ideological stances, other than in the photographic ambit. of course, but this is very serious as it will totally violate any residual privacy that is left. Not good news.
We are seriously screwed. This is a departure from this post's avoidance of any political or ideological stances, other than in the photographic ambit. of course, but this is very serious as it will totally violate any residual privacy that is left. Not good news.
Portrait from the archives
This shot is from a story I was covering for Migration Today magazine and it dealt with the wonderful Haitian artist community in Flatbush, Brooklyn. It was shot on Tri-X with the 35mm Summicron on the Leica m-4. I love the entire composition. Using the 35mm, and getting close. one can photograph the environment in which the subject works.
Monday, April 14, 2014
Sunday, April 13, 2014
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These shots were As I go through my old cd's to re burn them, I keep fingid many great shots with the S1. It always amazes me what that ...
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There was something right about the skin tones of the D 1-X. Only the Fuji S2-Pro did better. The Nikkor 35-135 F 3.5-4.5 was used.
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Yes indeed, old photos from Sicily. I will be posting new ones very soon. The above photos were shot with Tri-X and with the Canon Ft and...