Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Polarizer Examples

Polarizer ExampleLast time when we were in Manhattan we stopped by B&H and bought a polarizer. We decided to buy it once, so we bought the expensive one with a diameter of 77mm with adapters. Basically one polarizer which will fit all of my lenses.

First couple of days the weather was cloudy and sun was nowhere to be found. I figured that we just bought a very expensive piece of glass that does nothing. However on Sunday before we drove out to Seven Lakes I took a couple of test shots. The difference is really astonishing. No amount of post-processing will make the image look the way polarizer does. Basically all the reflection from the leafs is gone which results in a much better contrast and saturation.

The image above has no post-processing of any kind. I just took a shot, turned the polarizer 90 degrees and took another one.

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Sunday, November 4, 2007

Autumn Colors

AutumnToday we had a mission. Drive out of the city to some place nice and find some autumn colors to capture on “film”. The trees in New York City just refuse to go yellow. Most of them are still green, some are ugly orange, nothing nice.

We woke up early (by weekend standards), picked up Ignat and drove all the way to Seven Lakes via Palisades Parkway — about 60 miles to the north of the city. Sadly for us the sun didn’t want to play our game — it was hiding behind the dark gray clouds. It’s upsetting, but we did the best we could with the available light and sky color.

I just looked through the pictures and there are definitely captures that makes the whole trip worth it. Not to mention the fact that the autumn does look beautiful up there.

I’ll post more pictures later as I have the time to go through them and make adjustments.

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Sunday, November 4, 2007

Sunset

Brooklyn SunsetThere was the most amazing sunset today. I took a couple of shots when I saw it. The thing is that the colors on the photo are pretty much how it looked like for real.

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Thursday, November 1, 2007

Times Square

Times SquareWe ended up in Manhattan towards the end of the day today. Since we often lug around our camera we decided to visit Times Sq. And yet again it has proved hard to photograph. Harder then it seems to me at least.

Times SquareSome aspects of the images came out quite well, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. The things that gets to me the most is the noise in the photos. Read more…

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Thursday, November 1, 2007

Грызуся

GradesРугаю себя, ругаю, а от привычки “принимать всё близко к сердцу” избавиться никак не могу. Вот вчера тест был очередной по финансам. И готовилась же много - над домашкой часов 10, не меньше, просидела в сумме, и понимаю вроде всё (даже другим обьясняла), а в теоретических вопросах опять ошибки сделала. И вопрос в одной задаче второпях неправильно прочитала - нашла цену в неправильный период.

Ненавижу эти multiple-choice вопросы. ( Так хоть частично дают кредит, если видят, что понимаешь. Эх… Вот уже второй день расстраиваюсь. Как сказала бы моя бабушка - “грызуся”, то бишь самоедством занимаюсь. А толку-то?

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