Tag: Long Island City

Haunted Houses

Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, New York
Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, New York

Another noisy night shot. The green glow in the background is the 50-story Citibank building about a block from where I was standing. Once again, I opened up the shadows and exaggerated the digital noise to get the micro-pointillist effect. I rather like it.

Foggy, Foggy Night

21st St and 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, New York
21st St and 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, New York

This is the first of many shots you’ll be seeing, taken with my old Nikon D300 while my current main camera, the Fuji X-T1, is in the shop. It was an incredibly foggy night and I forgot that I had the camera set to Shutter Priority mode at 1/320th of a second. While this eliminated blur from camera shake, it forced the auto-ISO up to 3200. And, while I remember being thrilled with the high ISO performance of this 12 megapixel beast when I upgraded from a 6-MP DSLR, it’s remarkable how noisy it looks compared to what you get out of an X-Trans sensor. Still, I rather like the somewhat pointillist effect and instead of applying noise reduction I amped the clarity and the sharpness to exaggerate the noise. More foggy night shots to come…

No War

McKenna Triangle, Long Island City, New York

 

McKenna Triangle, Long Island City, New York

I went down to cover this protest outside the Citibank building in Long Island City, first to discover they were, incongruously, protesting NATO and the G8; next to discover it was a film and not a demo at all.

McKenna Triangle, Long Island City, New York

 

McKenna Triangle, Long Island City, New York

 

McKenna Triangle, Long Island City, New York