Thoughts From My Camera

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Boating off Long Island Day

A day out on the water is always a great time. For a day trip like this I took my X-T1 and an XF23mm and XF55-200. Most are pretty standard shots - although some have the Advanced Filter mode applied for the Miniature effect. The house below is one of many which were destroyed by Sandy.
Our trip took us down through the Island Park Harbor and over into the Reynolds Channel towards the Wreck Lead Channel where Pops is.

The light, food, and weather was great for photos.

A quick low light shot inside the quiet yacht club and then back home through Penn Station where weekend construction was going on. All images except the yacht wheel were shot at ISO 200-400.
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Thursday, August 07, 2014

Shaving My Beard Time Lapse

The other day I decided to shave my beard off, and as I approached the moment I realized I could easily capture the sequence with my X-T1 and its built-in intervalometer.

I set the camera up with an XF14mm lens and an EF42 flash on a mini ball head and suction cup to the wall of the shower.

I set my ISO to 800 and the exposures were 1/80th @ F5.6.

An exposure was made every 7 seconds, then I dropped them all into iMovie and set the playback for a frame every 0.5 seconds.

Enjoy!

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Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Roosevelt Island Visit

A great afternoon weekend trip is over to Roosevelt Island. There are so many nice views to take in and the transportation over on the tram is a unique gem.

I started the day in Long Island City by the Pepsi sign, then headed over to the island and the new FDR memorial park area.

http://www.fdrfourfreedomspark.org/

Some women take in the view over to NYC from LIC. You can see the UN building on the left.
The walk along the water on Roosevelt Island is a nice one on the water's edge. I've included one with a filter applied in camera and one standard.

After a short walk south you come to the massive stairs leading up to a great view of the FDR display.

Shooting with the Fujifilm X-T1 and the XF55-200 I made a double exposure in camera of the full moon and Ed Koch Bridge. This is a new favorite image of late.

Once you cross back over to Manhattan on the tram the view is great looking east. Here you can see the full moon on the upper left side. Late night calls for the XF56mm F1.2 - these shots are made easy when you have a wide open lens like the XF56. I switched to tungsten white balance to even out the lighting a bit better and of course that leads to a nice deep blue twilight sky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island

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Monday, July 28, 2014

Night Activity on the Avenue

There is never a shortage of great photos to grab in the Village at night. As I wander around with my camera I always want to explore the way the light is working at different times of the day.

Sitting at an outdoor cafe I noticed the guy inside working on his Mac.
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Most of these are shot from ISO 400-1600. The black and white is so darn clean as we've all seen with most of the new cameras today.

Winner winner! Not.

A street project began around 11pm one night to mill the street and level the pavement. It was amazing to watch the large machinery work over the avenue as if it was sand on a beach. In a short three hours they were done with a box in the intersection