Rooftoppin

So besides the video in the previous post, I shot some enjoyable stills, (including 4x5) will try to get the Large format developed soon (negs are starting to pile up)

in the meantime, 5d stuffs. Tilt/Shifting over the Williamsburg Bridge iso 2000, f2.8 full tilt, I dig the 45, but the 24 is a tad too wide for my taste

JMZ, Brooklyn

JMZ, Brooklyn

In addition to the video I shot a long series of stills, we'll see what comes of it.

Passing Time [video]

Testing 5d with high ISO and Tilt/Shift Lenses. Although I can't take credit for this concept, I must send thanks to those who turned me on to the idea. Since its widescreen format it doesn't fit too well into the blog format, I reccomend you watch High Quality (in HD) Here

brooklyns lost and found

About a month ago I read a really interesting article about the effects of the recession on all the development in brooklyn (paricularly waterfront areas like williamsburg.) A lot of projects started in the last ten years have come to a crashing halt.

Obviously these kinds of abandoned buildings aren't uncommon in any city. what I found interesting about this space was that it is in a perpetual state of a construction site, that is to say, the entire building is lit at all times, day or night. Fresh padlocks and chains block most of the entryways, and although it seems like an ideal location for squatters I found no evidence of anyone.

alleyway (entry)

graffiti (twister)

stairwell

elevator shaft

basement window

wildflowers, empty lot

I have a lot more editing to do from this weekend. More to come soon.

-DA

Lightning Lit

Lightning, ISO 25800, and best guess for focus.

Nighttime Walkabout

Trying again to test out what I can do handheld at late night. Just a few random observations.

boxes (slide)

antique shop

corner

w15 st, sunset

Saturday Walk Home

This morning my hopes of sleeping in were dashed by a series of phone calls at 9am, however I made the best of it, headed into the city from kates, and took a few shots on my walk home from the L.

street fair

corner window

archway

sleeping man, pigeon

Washington Square Village

I have always enjoyed the freedom of SLRs, but trying to hold them level to your frame can drive me a little nuts. I'm itching to shoot some 4x5, maybe I can work something out this week.

-DA

other video

This was a quick edit from that night walk to brooklyn. 45 seconds long.

Last nights Flicks (ISO 1600 and beyond)

I will try to be less generous in my editing, but last night I walked the williamsburg bridge and shot a lot of stuff. I realize the danger of overshooting with digi, and the wonkiness of the color in some of these. but I found it a fun test. These are in order from last to first, or from high ISO [6400] to Low [800].

side lot, williamsburg

couple, williamsburg bridge

baseball park, manhattan

avenue C, manhattan

ivy on buildings, east village

girl, east 3rd st.

courtyard, washington square village

New Diggs

So I finally got my hands on my very own 5DmkII and I couldn't be happier with it. I tested it pretty thoroughly today, and am really loving the 1080p video output. I even posted 2 clips on youtube. [1] [2]

I'm really excited about shooting more freely with this camera in addition to the 4x5. Which reminds me, I have negs to develop. expect 2 new 4x5s when I get around to it. (hopefully sooner than later)

What's new?

So I have been working at Drive In Studios for the last month and a half, and have some film starting to pile up! I took this picuture this morning as I left kate's apartment to go to work [with a digital camera that's nearly 10 years old], and I kindof dig it.
I am going to be buying a 5DmkII in the next week or two, Which will allow me to shoot a lot more freely. I also am trying to shoot film this weekend and another rooftop next week!

wish me luck

-DA

Shoot in the rain!

So here's some fresh work!Kaitlyn, Newbury

Crab Apple Tree

Irrigation System

Gnarled Dead Trees


So I haven't gotten anymore rooftop works done, but I managed to knock out some landscape work I'm very happy with. Including a portrait! and a very 4x5y shack!

Shot in the rain for about 2 hours with Kate on our trip to MA. This is most of what I got there. (1 shot withheld until kate posts what she shot there!)

Possibly, Maybe

Finally something I'm happy with!

It's been a long bit of time since I got some work together, and am now retouching and working on getting it out.

Finding a good subject matter in NY has been difficult for me, but a week or two ago I climbed onto the roof of my apartment complex and shot. This is the first of the retouching of that little shoot, and I'm thinking I want to shoot from more roofs, I know it's been done, but I want to do it anyway.


Love the Color palette here, I never cease to be impressed by the kind of color film can hold, the rusty yellows of the sky and the odd retro blues of the rooftop. I'm a sucker for this one.

New Work Coming very soon!

i have a big ole' stack of shot film, going to the lab tomorrow, so maybe 3-5 new shots here soon!

if you still follow I think you will enjoy these new works.

what the duck

yea i know it's been ages since i put up new work...

have some new stuff coming soon, been a little slow on getting my act together, but have a new job (internship at Milk) , have enough money to shoot and process film...stuff coming soon, I promise

plus it's springtime, and the weather can't hold me back any more!

-DA

The book

Also, I am working on final revisions of my photobook. As soon as it is available I will post links, in case anyone is interested in procuring a copy.

Final Reviews

So as of Thursday I had my last review at MassART, it went pretty well. I'm really bummed that I won't have access to all that equipment (especially the printers) but all in all it's nice to be done.

Here's a mockup of how I hung my final review...
(most/all of these images are somewhere on the blog, this mockup is more to get a feel for the full hanging) I also posted these as an album on facebook.


I got some decent feedback from the review board, enough to make me feel validated to continue working on this project.

I hope to have new work here sometime early next month. As of right now I have christmas, new years, and moving to NY to deal with. wish me luck. I will return as soon as I can.

What is happening on Plum Island.

here's a newsclip about the erosion and apparently the house on the right in yesterdays post.

Pretty soon they'll be gone too.

So last week a house fell into the ocean on Plum Island, I was unable to photograph the wreckage, but I did find these three houses who lost their yards, their decks, and will soon fall into the ocean themselves. It's really shitty but this is happening to the entire island..


I have some other shots, the retouching is hugely time consuming as the lab royally fucked up my negs. I will get them up as soon as I can but this last week of school is going to keep me pretty busy. I will try to shoot plumb island more as I don't know what lies in the future for this place.

f.64, Direct Sunlight, a 150mm lens.

So through the past week(s) I've continued to check out the area I like to call roads to nowhere. I shot a bunch of film out there, somewhat arbitrarily from my main project, or maybe it isn't. I've just been trying to give myself a lot more freedom with what I shot so the images don't become overly formulaic. (and although much of my work of late has been successful, I feel at times it has become just that)

I'm really happy with the top 3 images, the bottom two feel a little too pretty the more I look at them, to be honest they're all kindof pretty but again, the bottom two are just a little too much.

So here comes a bunch of new stuff that I may or may not edit into my book!






Further Note, I shot most of this work at f.64 and really really overexposed to increase my shadow detail. Shooting directly at the sun became a little wonky but I am tempted to really like how this stuff looks. Also special thanks to Abe for letting me borrow his 150, it's nice to have choices of lens length when I'm shooting this stuff.

Not much time left in the semester, The book is really close to being edited (and needs to be finalized by the end of this week to be honest). next post will prolly be in 2 weeks. Happy Thanksgiving.

Longer Exposures...

Tried to post this the other night but didn't have time...

So, the days are getting very very short...I've kindof adopted this habit of wanting to shoot all my landscapes at f.45 so exposure time is rapidly becoming an issue...sortof. Last week I did a bunch of longer exposures, did several hour longs that were too thin to print, but these ones range from 10 minutes to an hour and I'm pretty happy with them.

These first two are a revisit to the rapidly disappearing woods behind my house, I'm much happier with the light and color here, a lot less contrasty and a little more appropriate.



I also shot this long kindof amazing little spot where marsh, concrete, and river come together. (whether or not the picture does this spot justic i'll let you decide.) I haven't shot anything at night in several years but I am pretty happy with this.

NPZ 800

So I had this roll of fuji NPZ 800, I've never really shot with high speed film, It's funny cuz a few years ago all this grain would have bothered me. But now with digital being so dominant I kindof like the grainy look of film, and it's flexibility in low light...now all I have to do is shoot the roll of Ilford 3200 I have...







I'm not sure how much I like this bottom shot (or the middle for that matter) but hey this is just a blog! It's kindof nice to shoot handheld, maybe it's just the freedom and the new format. anywho...

Family

I've had it pointed out to me that I use to shoot a lot of portraits with my 4x5, The subject matter generally being my family. This was back when I was shooting black and white all the time, I've been so caught up in landscapes for a while that I haven't really pointed my camera at a person in a while. I shot my mother with my 4x5,

also here is an older picture I shot about two months ago of my dad, shot it with NPZ 800 (for some reason it took me like 2 months to use it since I was saving it for low light hand held situations) so it's super grainy, but I do like it. I'd like to shoot him with the 4x5 soon.

Roads to Nowhere...(The Roads)

I feel like the project has been getting too heavy into "trash spots" and industrial leftovers. I've been hiking the hidden roads southeast of my house and finding this stuff to be less overbearing as evidence of man vs environment...Here are two images I just finished working on. My volume may slow a bit as I'm going to start focusing a lot on editing for the book I'm self publishing.

So I got my negs back of the roads that I have been hiking, two of them had some huge problems, my own fault...I really like the wind movement I got out of these shots. I prefer the muddy marsh road but this leafy path is nice as well.

reshoot

I forgot to post this last week, this is a reshoot of the overgrown sign, I like this version a lot more, you can see the older one here.