(There's just one blog this time, not separate ones for color and for black and white.)
Enjoy!
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| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Evaluative Metering, EV +1, 1/25 sec, F/11, ISO-100, 134 mm (214 mm equivalent) | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Sigma 55-200mm f/4-5.6 | |
| Location: | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Notes: | I didn't process this at all in Photoshop. Not at all. It looked just like this. (Okay, so maybe I kind of dramatically adjusted the contrast... Just a little bit. Otherwise, it looked just like this.) |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Evaluative Metering, EV +2/3, 1/200 sec, F/5.0, ISO-200, 72 mm (115 mm equivalent) | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Sigma 55-200mm f/4-5.6 | |
| Location: | Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Notes: | This is another of my favorite photos from the Philly photoblogger shoot on Saturday evening. It's the inner wall of a fountain just north of the Fairmount Water Works. I don't think I've quite got the processing right on this, but it's close. (I also wish I paid attention to the plane at which I was placing this wall - the depth of field is too shallow. Ah, but maybe that just gives the illusion that this is a looong tall wall. Well, at least it's cool in the thumbnail.) |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Evaluative Metering, EV 0, 1/50 sec, F/5.6, ISO-100, 28 mm (45 mm equivalent) | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | |
| Location: | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Notes: | This was my parting shot from the Philadelphia photoblogger meetup on Saturday evening, just before they packed up to go for drinks/dinner and I headed out separately to meet some friends for sushi. (I really wished these things didn't coincide - I really would have liked to hang out longer. Next time!) |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Evaluative Metering, EV +1, 10 sec, F/8.0, ISO-100, 25 mm (40 mm equivalent) | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | |
| Location: | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Notes: | If only the fire escape on the side of my building, which offers this view of the city, were a (sturdier) balcony off of my apartment. That would be sweet. |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Evaluative Metering, EV 0, 1/1250 sec, F/5.6, ISO-800, 55 mm (88 mm equivalent) | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | |
| Location: | New York City, NY | |
| Notes: | Here are the last pictures from the trip to NYC at the beginning of May. In other news, I'll be moving this photoblog to its own domain soon and I'm very excited about it. The first change I'm going to make is to make it a single photoblog, so I'll post color or black and white as I choose, but I won't be posting two photos (one of each) every time I post. It's too much work and it doesn't always work for the subject matter. Another change I'm going to make is to add photo albums, so that I can upload photos that I don't necessarily want to feature one day at a time. (I'll probably keep my Flickr account too, but allow the Pro account to expire. Actually, I'm really tempted to join SmugMug, but I'm still thinking about it.) So there will be one main photoblog, and photo albums as needed whenever I have a slew of photos I want to put up all at once. Of course, I haven't even done the domain transfer or downloaded the new blogging software (I'm thinking of switching to Pixelpost and using Gallery for the photo albums), so these are still just ideas. In the meantime, keep checking here for new photos. There's a Philly photoblogger meetup in the works, so I should have photos from that in a couple of weeks. |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Evaluative Metering, EV 0, 1/320 sec, F/8.0, ISO-800, 55 mm (88 mm equivalent) | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | |
| Location: | Chinatown, New York City, NY | |
| Notes: | Visual chaos above the busy streets of Chinatown. |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Pattern Metering, EV -2, 1/400 sec, F/8.0, ISO-100, 18 mm (28 mm equivalent) | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | |
| Location: | New York City, NY | |
| Notes: | Life seems to have intervened lately and I haven't had much time to post to my photoblog. I figure I'll just pick up where I left off, which is a trip to NYC at the beginning of May. This is, obviously, the Empire State Building, viewed from 5th Avenue. |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Pattern Metering, EV -2, 1/60 sec, F/5.6, ISO-1600, 55 mm (88 mm equivalent) | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | |
| Location: | Soho, New York, NY | |
| Notes: | It was this hot pink/purple light that caught my eye, but the kissing couple inside that made me stop and take the shot. |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Pattern Metering, EV 0, 1/2 sec, F/18, ISO-1600, 18 mm (28 mm equivalent) | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | |
| Location: | Soho, New York, NY | |
| Notes: | I really couldn't decide if I liked this better in color or black and white, so you get both. Tripod courtesy of the parking meter on the side of the street. Thanks also to this cab driver who slowed down so I could take this picture! |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Pattern Metering, EV -1, 1/40 sec, F/5.6, ISO-1600, 30 mm (48 mm equivalent), cropped to square | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | |
| Location: | Washington Square Park, New York City | |
| Notes: | Walking around NYC this weekend with my "best" lens (the kit lens) which only goes to f/3.5 at the wide end, I initially assumed that I couldn't get any decent shots without a tripod. But then these guys showed me that they were just boosting their ISO and under exposing as much as necessary, and it reminded me that I don't always have to shoot noise free stock-clean photography all the time. So I shot at ISO 1600 and under exposed and when I stopped worrying about noise, I had a lot of fun. See also this one. |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Pattern Metering, EV -2/3, 1/400 sec, F/8.0, ISO-100, 55 mm (88 mm equivalent) | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | |
| Location: | Massachusetts | |
| Notes: | Every single part of this barn was falling apart. It's amazing that it is still standing at all and I can't imagine it can weather too many more storms. |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Pattern Metering, EV 0, 1/50 sec, F/8.0, ISO-100, 30 mm (48 mm equivalent) | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | |
| Location: | Massachusetts | |
| Notes: | Sorry for the lack of photos on this site lately. There are several reasons, incuding being busy, but part of the reason is because I'm working on a new laptop and I'm just not comfortable with the screen yet. It's a glossy screen, which I find to make things look strangely shiny and artificial. I just don't know what to think of my photos - I feel somehow removed from them, like they've been shellacked or something. And I'm not yet convinced that the color is right, even though I've actually calibrated this monitor (using Spyder2Express), and the colors were much better and more natural than they were before they were calibrated, but ... I'm just not sure about it. Then again, my previous laptop monitor was not calibrated so maybe I'm just getting used to that difference. So if you notice anything weird about the colors in my photos, please feel free to say so!! Anyway, so that's one reason I haven't been posting much here. Another reason is that I want to switch my photoblogs (White Light and Shadows) to a new domain and I might collapse those two photoblogs into just one which means that I wouldn't be able to just migrate everything over to the new blog and so if I'm starting over, is there any point in posting here? Well, probably there is, because I do like doing it. :) (I am thinking of switching to WordPress, though that would mean recoding my whole site and I'm not sure that's worth it. But I'm also thinking of setting up a Gallery site, and I think it might ultimately be better to try to coordinate it with a WordPress blog and not a Movable Type one. If anyone has any experience with this or thoughts about it, please feel free to share!) |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Pattern Metering, EV 0, 1/40 sec, F/4.5, ISO-200, 31 mm (50 mm equivalent) | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | |
| Location: | 20th Street, in front of Capogiro Gelato, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Notes: | This is my favorite gelato place: Capogiro Gelato. My friend Kelly and I stopped by here this past Sunday while we were out unsuccessfully trying to visit a few bookstores around the city (they were all closed). I had a small cup of two flavors - Mexican Chocolate and Rosemary Honey Goat's Milk. It might sound like a strange mix, but they perfectly complemented each other, and I even note on their website that these two flavors can be bought online along with a few other Lancaster Mint Stracciatella, Lime Cilantro, Saigon Cinnamon, and Zenzero con Sesamo in a $60 set of pints. I could happily eat all of those! Anyway, it was raining, so we didn't sit outside to eat, but I liked these orange chairs that they set up anyway on the sidewalk. |
| EXIF: | Aperture Priority, Pattern Metering, EV +2/3, 1/50 sec, F/8.0, ISO-100, 18 mm (28 mm equivalent), polarizer filter | |
| Camera/Lens: | Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | |
| Location: | Esplanade, Boston, MA | |
| Notes: | Here is another view of the Esplanade, where I wandered during a short break from a conference this weekend in Boston. I like this one because of all the color in spite of the fact that the trees haven't yet flowered or grown leaves. |