Category: Blog Note

Exhibit Update

Important news! The gallery show previously announced has moved! We’ll still be opening on Friday evening (25-Oct-2019) at 6:30 pm and on Saturday the 26th from 11:00 to 5:00 but the new location is:

Contra Studios
122 West 26th Street, 7th floor
New York, NY 10001

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be participating in a pop-up gallery show next month. On the evening of Friday, October 25th and during the day on Saturday, the 26th you can see some of my work at Mother & Son an exhibition of my mother’s paintings (S F Stern) with my photographs.

Pop-Up Show

[UPDATE] – We’ve just had a location change (dates and times unchanged). We’ll now be at:

Contra Studios,
122 West 26th Street, 7th floor
New York, NY 10001

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be participating in a pop-up gallery show next month. On the evening of Friday, October 25th and during the day on Saturday, the 26th you can see some of my work at Mother & Son an exhibition of my mother’s paintings (S F Stern) with my photographs.

Mailing-Brochure v2

for more information, don’t hesitate to contact me: adam@islerweb.com.

Subway Candid Portrait

Times Square subway station, New York

I seem to be getting some kind of ghastly greenish-yellow bands under certain shooting conditions. I try to do some light correction but it’s pretty hard to get it right. Time to take a chance on Fujifilm repair again? I recently sent in my X-T1 to get an estimate on an annoying but operable command dial that needed cleaning. With the repair cost approaching the value of the camera I declined the repair but the camera came back with the shutter speed dial locked in Automatic making the camera something less than functional. Or time for an X-T3 or X-H1?

Blog Note

Well, out for a walk with the camera today but really not feeling it. I was seeing pictures but they all seemed like things I’d shot before or just not that interesting. “There is no new thing under the sun.” I’ll dump the memory card and see if there’s anything worth working on…

Carl Schurz, Again

Been laid up with a cold all week (as have all my family) and it’s too cold to go outside anyway so no new pictures.

However, in other news, some of you may remember when my picture of the Carl Schurz statue on Morningside Heights was used in a German tribute to him, reported earlier in these pages.

Now, I’m happy to report, especially to French and German readers, that it will appear (for a few seconds) in a television documentary, “Der Traum von der Neuen Welt” or “Le rêve du nouveau monde,” this April 22 at 20:15 (Central European Time, UTC+1) on ARTE (current plan – it could change).

Let me know how it looks!

116th St and Morningside Drive, New York
116th St and Morningside Drive, New York

My First Single Sleeve: the Baffled Kings

Just in time for the new year! One of my pictures (you saw it here first as Steamy Window!) will be used as the sleeve for a soon to be released single by the English pop band, The Baffled Kings (perfect for Epiphany)!

baffled-kings

The single drops January 8th – I’ll post a link when it’s available on Alternative England Records.

Blog Note – Hang in There

Well, the new hard drive arrived and it’s pretty amazing. It’s less than a 1/2″ thick and only 3″ x 4.25″, compared to the War & Peace-sized brick it’s replacing. Also, no AC power plug – it runs right off the USB 3 cable.

However, after running into endless problems, fits and starts, I had to reformat it from a new NTFS standard that works on both Mac and Windows (partially) to a Mac only format. Now, I’ve had to restart the slow and painful restore of over a terabyte of photo files. I hope to connect to Lightroom by tonight with all my 2015 photos and start working on new images, though I suspect it will take me a week to fully restore all the historic files to the new drive.

Hang in there – try picking a category (in the panel on the right) to see some of your old favorites in the meantime. Back soon.

Blog Note

No new pictures right now but a few updates:

  • Received my  X-T1 back from Fuji on Monday. The documentation that accompanied it suggests they completely misunderstood my problem. Nevertheless, their action was to “replace the main board” and clean the camera. I have to say, it’s like having a new camera. Not only is the problem gone (the camera no longer falls into a coma instead of merely to sleep), it appears to be much more responsive than it ever was. A half-press of the shutter now wakes it instantly and focusing appears quicker than ever (and there’s a rumored firmware update coming in a couple of weeks said to improve that even more).
  • I still have something like 75 images shot with my Nikon D300 while the Fuji was in the shop still to winnow my way through. In particular, last weekend I participated in a Jane’s Walk of East Harlem murals and I think there may be a few goodies among them. Stay tuned to this channel!
  • When I initially started working with the D300 I was struck by just how fast and responsive a full-sized DSLR could be, compared to the mirrorless cameras I’ve grown accustomed to over the last 2 -3 years. What I’ve learned since is that, while the D300 is highly responsive it often gets focus wrong. Furthermore, with the X-T1 repaired it feels just about as responsive and does a more modern job of auto-focusing at less than half the size and weight. Not to mention the Fuji is virtually silent allowing much closer work in the street, while the Nikon is a noisy tank of a camera (mirror slap). Battery life is another story: I didn’t have to change the battery once in the week and a half that I was carrying the Nikon. I’ve changed the Fuji’s battery twice since Monday for fairly minimal shooting.

More pictures to come soon.