Sixth and B Wildlife

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

6th and B Turtle Pond
This guy had the grace to hold a pose long enough for me to focus and get some goldfish in the background.

Pollinators
I can usually count on finding bees and such browsing for nectar in the flowery northeast corner of the 6th and B Community Garden. There were only a few this past Sunday.

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Bike Rack Clog

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Bike Rack Clog
I think the sanitation department needs to figure out a way to recycle these abandoned bikes. How about photographing and tagging obviously bent-up and abandoned bikes, saying that they will be removed in two weeks if not either repaired or moved. This could be done on a systematic block by block campaign, putting warning signs up informing residents what will happen. As it stands many of the bike racks that the city has installed over the past few years are uselessly clogged up with abandoned bikes.

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Toy Tower Roses

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Toy Tower Roses
The roses that once grew on the Toy Tower now grow on this trellis in the 6th and B Community Garden.

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Art Around the Park 2011

Sunday, June 5th, 2011


Commemorating the “worst bathroom in Manhattan, ever.” Mars Bar represented at Howl Festival.

Arrest Bloomberg
The New York Post Times dated the day after tomorrow, a Chris Brodeur publication.
Artists
A couple of early rising artists, this morning on Avenue A. Art Around the Park for the Howl Festival.

Portraits of Allen Ginsberg

Rag Portrait of Allen

Four More Years

Yoga Howl 2

Street Portrait
Painting the street behind him, plein air.

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Shooting it RAW

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Domino Sugar
I’m starting to shoot in the RAW format on my Lumix DMC-FZ35. The main disadvantage for me is the length of time it takes to save the photo to the camera’s card. This limits how quickly I can snap my next shot. RAW alone takes 5 seconds. JPEG at highest quality takes around 1 second, and 1 second is annoying enough, especially when I’m shooting on the street. The other disadvantage is storage, saving as RAW requires roughly 4 times the size of saving as the highest quality JPEG my camera can generate. But after experimenting with the RAW editing software that came with my camera (Silkypix Developer Studio 3.0) the ability to reduce digital noise and the range of color corrections I can do is really sweet. Silkypix, so far, does as much as I really need, and it does it non-destructively. When it is developed, you save to JPEG, as well as save the editing parameter you applied to the RAW file, but without altering the original photo data.

So, I’m really glad this post on Reddit convinced me to explore RAW. It is good to have in my photography tool bag, for specific occasions where the lag is not a factor.

This photo of the old Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, was developed to JPEG, then reduced to web size in Irfan View, and then processed by Flickr again. But I think I was able to keep the digital noise to a minimum, or at least far less than I would have been able to do with only a JPEG save.

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