Recently someone posted a whole set of portraits they’d shot using a square ring light to create square catch lights in their subjects’ eyes. I thought they looked rather odd and unnatural. But here I am with square catch lights in my eyes from an illuminated hotel room mirror.
Continuing our series of street photographs taken with the consent of the subject, here’s one I took in the late 1970s. This little boy was so adorable, but once his mother gave permission and he knew I was taking pictures things changed. I had to wait quite a while till he’d forgotten about me before I could get the truly candid shots I wanted.
I’ve rejuvenated my companion Facebook page. Instead of simply mirroring and cross-posting everything that appears here there will be additional postings and links to what’s going on. I’m trying to post things that will be of interest to anyone with a general interest in looking at good photography, especially street photography in New York. Re-christened as New York People Live – NYPL (pronounced nipple?), you can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-People-Live-NYPL/112051462139672?fref=ts. I hope you’ll come take a look and “like” us.
Dinner in a dimly-lit Mexican restaurant with my sometime photographer friend, Woyman. Offered my Sigma 30mm f2.8 to play with he snapped this portrait of me at ¼ second, handheld. Suppressing my vanity, I have to admit it’s not a bad little candid portrait.
Just received copies of the brochure issued to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Carl Shurz Haus of the German American Institute in Freiburg, Germany. My photograph of his statue at Morningside Drive and 116th Street, “Carl Shurz, Defender of Liberty and Friend of Human Rights, Overlooks Harlem,” features in it and I’m quite pleased with how well the printed version came out. To get this angle I had to clamber up onto the wall over the drop into the park but it was worth it to get the Harlem prospect in the background.
Another self portrait, probably from the mid-’70s. What was I doing? What was I thinking when I did this? Why was this so badly hypo’ed? No idea.
Another self-portrait from the mid-’70s. Dig the Dyna pre-amp and the TV with knobs and antenna.
