NYC archives digital photo collection

what a resource. awesome.

blending images at different shutter speeds

This is a very cool idea that had not occurred to me before: blending images shot at different shutter speeds.

spectacular old images

The World of Old Photography is well worth a few minutes time.

HDR contest finalist

This pleases me: One of my images was selected as a finalist in the 2014 Unified Color HDR photo contest.

Didn’t win, didn’t expect to. And the winning images totally deserved it. But it’s a thrill just to get to the finals.

Extreme settings

Of course I realize this is not a great photo for a bunch of reasons (not least the damn fence), but I’m posting it because:
(a) it was shot well after dusk, in near-darkness, at ISO 6400;
(b) it was shot hand-held with a fuji 55-200 mm lens fully zoomed to 200, with a shutter speed of 1/7th of a second;
(c) how bout the paws on that guy.

The Fuji camera, and the optical image stabilization in the lens, did an amazing job under these conditions. With no other photo equipment I have ever owned could I have hoped to get even a remotely acceptable image at settings like that. 

Performance photography

I’ve always found it a huge challenge to photograph performances (especially dance) without using a flash. I’d crank up the ISO, never get it high enough to un-blur moving dancers, and still get all kinds of weird artifacts and noise.

But my little Fuji X-E2 does a remarkably good job in low light at high ISO. I was not expecting it to be useful for photographing dance, but it did surprisingly well. These were shot at ISO 6400. I’m very pleased with the mighty little Fuj.

Slick little photoshop action

to automate the process of fitting an image to the editing window every time you open an image in PS. I added a step to also duplicate the background layer automatically for non-destructive editing. Always fun to learn new possibilities in PS.