After B&H

The apotheosis of St. francis of Assisi — St. Francis of Assisi, West 31st Street, Manhattan

So... a quick trip into B&H this afternoon to get a battery charger to make sure tomorrow is not a snapless Wednesday.  Great conversation with Andrew, who sold me the stuff, about B'more, his daughter, the MICA grad, who stuck around to teach art at a charter school.

On the way back after some gastronimic drama, this popped out the 5D Mk III just before the Path. actually the last shot of the day.  5D Mk III, 35 f/1.4L, f/8.0 at 100 ISO, handheld.

On the Waterfront

Hoboken has alleys too. 5D Mk III, five Photmatix exposure fused bracketed snaps with the 35 f/1.4L at f/8.0. More than the old three snap bracket — big improvement over the Mk II.

One of the last snaps from a walk last night.  More to follow in the next post or two. BTW, didn't happen to spot Marlon (Brando) or Eva (Marie Saint).

Enough converging diagonal lines in this one — all leading the eye inexorably to the light at the end of the Alley. (Hah, such BS). Hmm, end of the alley, end of the tunnel.  OTWF ca 1954, Bien Bien Phu, spring 1954. Then Brando in Apoclypse Now.

Drunk man walking

Not drunk but camera on manual focus.  Anyway corner of Pratt and Collington Streets, outside of Salt.

Oh! Almost forgot first blog post with the 5D Mk III, produces really nice snaps.  This with the 35 1.4L at f/1.4 and ISO 4000.  Not sure what it is but they are just better looking than the 5D Mk II. Never would have considered ISO 4000 with the Mk II.

More Summer of '06

and another differnt attempt at toning.  Yet another Photoshop attempt this one using a gradient map instead of of a curve.  More complicated still not sure it is any better. 

Taken in August of 2006 at the Old Idaho Pennitentairy in Boise.

Recovered

Never thoiught much of this window, taken on the Ogallala Nation Grassland in July 2006.  With some different post processing, I now like it, a lot.  Pretty much the same shooting parameters as the Tin Can House below.  I think I have at least one more from that trip that I can use this approach.  

A door to a bank in Berwyn.  The screen is a mess in this jpeg.

 The Bank

The Tin Can House

More OCD...  House siding made of flattened tin cans, Ogallala National Grass Lands in NW Nebraska.  July 2006. Canon 5D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS at 70mm, f/11.0, 1/80 on the Gitzo, late evening.  Used toning in Topaz rather than the NIk filter for this one, not sure it is right yet — looks a little green.

 

Orkneyless

I have no stones in Orkneys in my catalog, so I offer instead Fort Laramie, WY in the path of a July (1996) thurderstorm.  Canon 5D with the 17-40 f/4.0L at about 25mm, ISO 100, f/16.0.

Alliance, Nebraska — the day before

Carhenge

Stiched foggy morning

No clever comments for this just the specs, actually, 17 shots, Heiicon Focus focus merged, front to back twice, then stictched in to a pano.  Although with the 45 TSE-E rotataed because the shift was in use to keep the camera level.  Need to use the macro slide to get the entrance pupil correctly positioned.  Practice, practice — tuning up for the North Dakota workshop.  Quite large if printed at 300ppi ~ 39" x 12".  5D Mark II, 45mm TS-E f/2.8, ISO 100, f/5.6, +1 EV, 1/100 on the Gitzo.

So here is the redo with the macro slide and the no-paralax (aka, entrance pupil, nodal point) set correctly. Gitzo lowered to eliminate the need to shift with the 45mm TS-E but the composition could have dealt with the rail better.

 

 

Tree House

I guess the design build guys are the preferred route when it comes to roof tops in Baltimore.  Sure looks like the architects are being shunned. Tree houses for grown-ups with vernacular tree house design. Hah!

South Patterson Park Avenue, fronting the west side of the park, late on a winter afternoon.  Taken to enhance the grain, ISO 6400, 1/6400, f/9.0. Had plenty of aperture available with the 85 f/1.2L mounted on the 5D Mk II.  Aspect ratio (5x12 cropped along the short side) and platinum toning as profs to new role model Tillman Crane.

Tree House

Gray on gray

Gray day with some black and white conversions to match. Three handheld bracketed images each.  Blended in Photomatix, conversion in Silver Efex Pro 2.  5D Mk II, 85 f/1.2 L at f/9.0, ISO 1600 to get some noise, middle exposures ~ 1/1000. From Veranda #4 as usual.

 

 

34161 - Vinalhaven

Printed 34161 from the September Peter Ralston workshop in Maine, along with a bunch of others to hang around the aerie.  Did 34161 two different ways, liked them both.  Interesting the difference in mood. Snaped from a lobster boat just before 8:00AM on a foggy Spetember 13th morning in Carver's Harbor on Vinalhaven.  5D Mk II, ISO 100, 310mm (100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS), f/5.6 at 1/800.  Printed 12x18 on the Epson 4900 with the Imageprint RIP on Epson Exhibition Fiber. Post processing principly in Alien Skin Exposure 2 and Nik Color Efex 4.  Framed 18x24, matted with Rising Museum Board cut on the Easterly SpeedMat. Stunning!

 

Queen of de hop...

Oh well I love my queen.
Do you know who I mean?
Sweet little sixteen
Yes, that's my queen.

Well, she wears short shorts and a rock 'n roll shoes.
You ought to see her dance to the yellow dog blues.
She's my sugar time baby, I'm her lollipop,
An' everybody knows I love my queen of de hop

Queen of de hopReminds me of the chick who the cousin who got affluent in the auto body business hooked and moved to the faux chic gated community who you only saw at weddings and funerals down from the haughty burbs doing some slumming at J. Patricks (cash only mind you) in Locust Point, in the shadow of the (now très elégant) Silo. Babbittry exemplified.