I love macro photography, not so much as taking close up of bugs, and other tiny objects, which, don’t get me wrong, I also love to do, but, taking photos of normal sized things, but much much closer.
Like today’s RFPD.
Nikon D700
Micro Nikkor 60MM
1/100 sec.
f/5.0
One of the shots from my failed 365 set. This was close to my house, and as I driving, I happen to look that way, and saw some nice colours due to the setting sun. I stopped real quickly, and pulled out my Pentax K10D, and take a couple of frames.
Now I should’ve taken some 10 minutes and carefully shot it instead of just shooting it from inside my car. I’m overall not that pleased with the shot.
At the time thought I was still really learning more than anything else.
Pentax K10D
1/6 sec.
f/8
28 mm
ISO 800
One of my favorite spots to eat at in NYC’s Chinatown. It’s by no way means a fancy place. You have to walk down a set of steps to enter, and it’s not that pretty on the inside. Very basic decor of chairs and tables, but, it’s the food that count’s, and they do have some delectable selections.
My personal favorite, the salted fried squid, salt fried pork chop, snails, and young chow fried rice. The lemon fried chicken is freakin’ awesome too.
Anthony Bourdain also likes this place, he featured it on his show ‘No Reservations’, I think saying that it’s one of the few old school traditional places that’s still around.
In any case, it’s a must place to visit when you are in NYC.
Nikon D700
Nikkor 24mm
1/320
f/4.0
24 mm
ISO 4000
A few first’s for this RFPD. It’s the first entry that I shot this year, first that is also the most viewed from my Flickr Photostream, and the first flower shot with my new to me Nikkor 50mm f/1.4. (picked it up this past Friday).
This was shot at Cheesecake’s house, in their backyard. Not that crazy about it, but I really was just playing around with my new to me lens. I have shot with the fast fifty before, but, this one, I call my own, and it just feels different. It’s one of my favorite lenses really, and I am so glad to have it finally in my bag. Hopefully I can get to shoot more with it soon.
Nikon D700
Nikkor 50mm f/1.4
1/800 sec.
f/1.4
ISO 200
I might do some more post-editing on this one. I’ll make sure to post it up when I do.
And today’s most viewed photographs on my Flickr photostream with a whopping 4 (each) views is….(there is a 4 way tie)
2 Tornado Red VW GTI MK6
VW MK6 Golf .:R LED Tail Light
APR Tuned VW GTI MK6 Stage 3 Tuned Engine bay
Tornado Red VW GTI MK6
These were shot from various VW GTI MK6 Car meets.
This is another personal favorite from 2009. I was on my way to meet a buddy at Hooters in NYC coming in from a photo shoot in Connecticut. I was stuck at a light about 2 blocks away, and in NYC, that’s pretty much a traffic jam anywhere else.
Anyway, as I crept up, I saw a crowd forming maybe 3 car lenghts, and they were all taking photos. When I finally crawled my way around them, I saw this beautiful formation of clouds, which I later learned was Mammatus. The sun was setting also, so it gave this nice orange hue to it.
I had my camera packed, no lens attached. Luckily it was in the front passenger seat, so I quickly opened my bag, grabbed my D700 body, and screwed in my Nikkor 24mm. I quickly set my camera to what may be a good exporsure, metered real quickly, I was off by +1 stop, so I quickly adjust, and snapped off a few frames. I re-set to -1.5 stops and fired a few more.
When I finally got to my destination, I quickly reviewed my shots, and was satisfied with them. Later on, in Lightroom, the best shot turned out to be the very first frame I took.
This was one of those moments where your experience just really kicks in. I had no time really to get a shot off properly, as just after firing my first set of shots, the light turned green, and soon there after we were moving. I came walked back after I parked my car, but the sun already set too low, and the colours were not as vivid as it was no more than 5 minutes prior.
Nikon D700
Nikkor 24mm
Cheesecake is probably my single most favorite piece of dessert, EVER. I need to have different cheesecakes at different places whenever possible. I’ve had hundreds of slices all over, and while some are better than others, nothing really stood out. None was perfect, until that faithful weekend in May of 2009. It was during a trip to Philadelphia, to eat at Morimoto’s restaurant, we had some hours to kill before our scheduled reservations for dinner that night, so my friend and I took a tour around Philly. We stumbled upon Darling’s Famous Homemade cheesecakes, and I just needed to try this place. They had a variety of flavours, but I ended up picking the Banana’s Foster Cheesecake. I also have a thing for Banana flavoured foods.
That first bite was just magical, I have found at the time the perfect cheesecake. It’s funny too, that I found it in Philly, and not in NYC. Each silky smooth creamy bite easily glided down my throat, that hint of banana flavour tickling my taste buds, just utter epic-ness. Dare I say, I had a mini-crisis while eating this perfection. I must admit, it wasn’t much too look at, but like a book, never judge it by it’s cover.
Pure Epic-ness
Nikon D700
Nikkor 24mm
1/200 sec.
f/2.8
ISO 1600
Sadly, this was unseated earlier this year as the best cheesecake. That throne now belongs to a place up in Vancouver. Maybe another time, i’ll tell you about it.
And today’s most viewed photograph on my Flickr photostream with a whopping 9 views is….
2012 Volkswagen Golf .:R
Rising Blue
Nikon D700
Micro Nikkor 60mm
1/5000 sec.
f/5.0
This was shot during a Euro Car meet sometime in February. It’s an acquaintances Brand New Golf .:R, one of the first to be delivered in NY in fact. It’s a thing of beauty, and while some might say it’s an overpriced GTI, and I sort of agree, but, you have to be a Dubber to understand.
I think I do need to re-process this shot. It looks too BLUE!
This is one of the shots from my failed attempt at doing a 365 series titled ‘Where is Garfield Now?’ or WIGN for short. The basic premise was to shoot a Garfield Pez dispenser in different places/scenarios for 365 days. It was totally random, and it all started when I picked up a Garfield Pez dispenser at a garage sale. I did over 150 odd some days. I do have about a dozen unposted shots, but after falling behind in posting it, I ended up scrapping the whole thing.
I’ve been meaning to do it again since, but just haven’t found the main subject as appealing as Garfield.
Anyway, this was Day 28 and the description I put was as follows;
“Garfield decided just to stay at home today, and chill w/ some buddies.
He also told Optimus and Soundwave that the new movie didnt wiggle his tail, unlike the first one.
(I was stuck at home….so i know, this was a lame one)
Where is Garfield now?
Day 28: Kingswood village @ B-burg, NJ”
And today’s most viewed photograph on my Flickr photostream with a whopping 12 views is….
I thought this was Link at first. The dude in the back appeared in a few more of my photos….FAIL!
Again this was from 2011’s New York City Comic Con. This year’s is less than a month away, and we will be on hand for more photos!
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