(UPDATE: new Snapshot Syndicate photo site.)

I attended a workshop held by the Snapshot Syndicate meetup group in New Jersey last weekend. It was a lot of fun and I got a few nice images.

These were shot with my Nikon D300 with my 35mm f/2 and 85mm f/1.4 lenses. Enjoy!

When I was in New York City earlier this week, I stopped by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and noticed two street performers doing a routine for people gathered on the steps.

They were very entertaining and I took these pictures.

I just finished processing some images from my lastest studio shoot. We used a number of different lighting setups to create different looks for the images.

The model, Erica, did a wonderful job with different types of poses. You can see some more of the images in this slideshow on my Flickr page.

I was in New York City today and decided to take a bit of time and travel up to Central Park for some HDR captures.

This is the first one I processed, looking toward the East Side from within the park. I shot this as I liked the water, building and gray sky together. Technically, I took 9 exposures on a tripod with 1EV difference between each and combined them in Photomatix. Then, processed in Photoshop and Lightroom.

Images are made where you find them... In this case, it was in a graveyard where I was helping my wife do some ancestry research.

This image is an HDR made from 9 separate exposures and then converted to B&W with an infrared filter. I felt the scene needed something other than the pure HDR colors and this seemed to work nicely.

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I am trying out the Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters and processed a couple of photos with them as an experiment. The filters work as a plugin to Photoshop with a very neat interface.

The first picture, a shot from outside the Eliot Spitzer resignation, got a cross processing filter that I though was pretty cool. The second, a self-portrait, got a duotone filter and some film grain.

I kinda like them both.

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I got some new lighting equipment today, so I had to try it out ... on myself.

I've decided to use Alienbees lighting for studio work, so I got a B800 and a large softbox. I took this with the new setup -- using my ABR800 ringflash with a grid for the backlight -- and am looking forward to working with some two-eyed models soon...

Technorati Tags: self-portrait, alienbees

I had the opportunity to do a shoot last week with the band Tasting Grace. It was a rainy day, but we made the best of it.

Here are some of the shots. You can see the whole set on Flickr.

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I happened to find myself outside NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer's office this morning in Manhattan just before his resignation.

Fortunately, I had my Nikon D300 and Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens. I took some pictures of the media as they gathered, eagerly awaiting any sighting of the governor. I had to move on to a business meeting, but thought the scene was worth recording.

Technorati Tags: spitzer, media, resignation, politics, new york city

Here are some scenic photos from a trip we took to Pennsylvania yesterday. I used my Nikon D300 and these were all shot with my Nikon 18-200mm zoom.

These shots were either true HDRs or pseudo-HDR (1 exposure, tonemapped.)

The entire set can be found here on my Flickr page.

Technorati Tags: pennsylvania, landscape, hdr