If I wasn’t anxious enough to be back out photographing the Races when Josef goes and emails with the great news his book on the races is out. Josef is the nicest guy you’re going to ever meet, the friendliest and most helpful photographer I’ve come across in a long time, loves to laugh and dang if he ain’t a great photographer too boot!
You don’t have to take my word for the photography, you can check it out in his newly released book. I couldn’t find it instantly in the US, but I bet it will make it here. As for him being a nice guy and funny, those joining us at our New York DLWS will find out for themselves as Josef will be joining us.
When you run into Josef, ask him about chasing the solar eclispe around the North Pole in a AirBus. It’s a great story and he has photos to go with it!
Nikon has released a firmware update for the SB-900. The firmware addresses these issues:
- With uninterrupted shooting with the SB-900 set to i-TTL mode, images captured just before the flash ceased firing were sometimes overexposed.This issue has been resolved. By resolving this issue, metering precision has been further increased and the number of times the flash fires has also been increased.
- When the SB-900, set to TTL auto flash mode, is used with a camera supporting the Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS), flash mode automatically changes to A mode according to camera communication status. That flash mode was previously maintained, but it has been modified so that TTL auto flash mode is restored once the SB-900 again recognizes the camera as a CLS-compatible camera.
More importantly Nikon has released the highly anticipated, star studded epic, academy award nominated, multi-million dollar production sequel, Creative Lighting Dvd (In Stock) with Bob Krist & Joe McNally.
grab your camera, grab your flash, ditch the popcorn and dive in!
We’re hinting about it no longer, DLWS is heading to NYC 15-18, Nov ‘09. We’re offering Joe’s New York, something that’s been in the works for a couple of years and having to wait another year will drive me nuts!
This is a special event in every way! You’ll need to head here to get all the facts before you sign up. And while the event is already half filled, there is still room for 14 more folks. Hope you can make it, we’re going to have fun!
These photos were captured this past weekend as Jeff & I cruised lower Manhattan. It’s not a good example of what we’re going to photograph during DLWS but it sure offers up the possibilities.
Photos captured by D700, 70-180 / 14-24AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Inside and under the tile roof of the Chambers Street Station, jackets and gloves were required. The breeze coming off the river and wiping towards City Hall numbed the ears. It was only when we stopped to look for the next photo opp under the “dome” though that the chill actually sunk in. Jeff had a great time and captured some cool image as well. Check them out.
The Chambers Street Station is on the route to walking the Brooklyn Bridge, you might not have seen it though because it’s on the other side of the fenced walkway to the bridge. Looking from the outside walking to the bridge, you wouldn’t know the cieling is this cool, tiled doom. If you’re in the area, check it out, you’ll have fun.
Here’s a little more idea of what’s there from the Moose Cam.
Photo captured by D700, 14-24AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Moose Cam P6000 Lexar UDMA digital film
On our way to Battery Park (which we never made) we took a detour to the Brooklyn Bridge. I just love that structure. On our way there, we walked into this way cool area you see here. I’m not telling, at least in this blog, where this is to give you native New Yorkers a little test on how well you know your town.
I don’t know how long we shot here, from the tile roof to through the arches and back again, it was just great shooting. They are calling my flight so I’ve got to run. I’ll get another image, Moose Cam and location posted tomorrow. Thanks for a great morning NYC!
Photos captured by D700, 14-24AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Jeff & I meet real early this morning to go shooting (not) before I caught my flight. We grabbed a cab and headed to Canal Street. After a Starbucks starter, we hit the pavement and walked towards Battery Park.
We didn’t get too far before stopping to watch the clouds dance the light off the buildings. They don’t got these tall suckers where I live so I’m just fascinated by the light. Simply gorgeous! I had a moment between flights so wanted to get a couple images posted from the 1340 I captured today.
Photos captured by D700, 70-180MC on Lexar UDMA digital film
After the great time with the shooters of NYC, Jeff & I headed out on the town. We first had a marvelous dinner at Beccos (deeeeeeeelish!). Then we headed down to Radio City and then to Time Square.
We spent most of our time exploring the light. These table caught my attention as the lights reflecting in them changed them with every switch in the background lights. Then Jeff started to do motion blurs of taxis. When the carts came by, we turned our attention to them. Don’t like the bright background white light, but it was fun which is what photography is all about.
Speaking of fun, here’s another in the Moose Cam series
I want to thank all you have emailed who attended the talk yesterday. Great to see it was enjoyed on both sides of the aile.
Photos captured by D700, 28f1.4 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Moose Cam P6000 on Lexar UDMA digital film
