I was out shooting the local bays at the end of the day. I have been playing with a minimalistic cropping and subject. Taking an idea from painters who set the horizon low in the image.
Northwest Harbor iced over
Gardner’s Bay at Dusk
Gardner’s Bay at dusk
In the evenings I have been running down to Flying Point Beach and Mecox Bay to catch the evening light and play with my new Fujifilm X-E2 camera. I am enjoying shooting with the camera. The feel is like a traditional film rangefinder camera. The lens and sensor produce sharp images with good contrast and like Fuji films snappy rich colors. The camera has a panoramic feature that stitches several images together in the camera. In principle it is similar to the feature in I-phones. Shooting in manual exposure and focus provides more consistent and better images in the panoramic mode. I hope you enjoy the photos.
Evening light on Mecox Bay
Sunset on the Salt Pond at Flying Point Beach
The beach pavilion at Flying Point Beach closed until Memorial Day.
Mecox Bay evening light
The small salt pond on Mecox Bay at Flying Point Beach
For Christmas I got a new camera. I wanted smoothing small and easy to carry around but didn’t want to give up quality. After searching and looking at mirror less camera I decided to go with the Fujifilm X-E2. The E2 is small and has very good interchangeable lens. I got out and took a few photos today the camera is setup like old film camera and is easy to use it takes a little getting use to the menus for your settings but I quickly got the hang of it. Below are a few photos taken with the camera. Non of the photos have been sharpened and the panoramic is stitched together in the camera. A minimum of processing was done in Lightroom and one photo used a film replication setting to mimic Fuji Velvia film.
In camera panoramic stitching
Shadow on marsh while sun is setting.
Using in camera film style setting set for Velvia film accounting for the heightened color.
It’s been a busy fall and holiday season not a lot of time for photography. However I did get in a trip to London, Paris and the Loire Valley. I was in London for Armistice Day and had the opportunity to see the poppy exhibit at the Tower Of London. 880,00 ceramic poppies one for each solider killed in WWI. A very impressive exhibit.
The volunteers from Guild Hall Art Center were by my place for a talk about my years in photography, and to look at photos. Below is a photo from the event. There was about 25 people present and we had a good time.
I’ve taken up building skin on frame kayaks in the traditional style from Greenland. The frames are made from several different wood species and joined using traditional joinery methods such as mortise and tenon, pegs, and lashings, The skin is made from ballistic nylon coated with either polyurethane or epoxy with a dye added. No screws or glues are used to hold the joints together. The skin is sewn on before coating. Each Boat takes about a year to make, because I work on them in my spare time. Below is a photo of the two boats. The blue boat is 17 feet long and 24 inches wide I finished building it in 2008. The red boat is 15 feet long and 24 inches wide and built in 2014. Please take a look at the new Kayak pages to see a few build photos. Thanks.
Two skin on frame kayaks
Had a chance to photograph the surfers at Montauk. Usually the light is not good for photographing surfers because it comes form the wrong angle, plus the bluffs create a shadow on the water where the best surfing is. However today the photo gods were in my favor and the lighting worked out. I hope you enjoy the photos.
Well it’s been a busy summer and not much time for photography. That’s the way it is in the Hamptons. Summer brings guest, barbecues, the beach and I still have to work. However I got a couple of photos I grabbed while driving on the North Fork of Long Island.
The Peconic River at Indian Island
Barn in wheat field
Recently I came across these two covers and thought it might be interesting to show the work I did in the 1980’s. Especially since I have been too busy with work, yard chores and having fun, to update the website with new photography. I have been working on some new ideas for projects but haven’t picked up the camera in weeks.
When I had a commercial photo studio the majority of the work I did was pretty boring, but occasionally I would get more interesting assignments. Recently I came across these two old covers for a trade magazine Beverage World. Beverage World was a trade magazine for everything related to the beverage industry. I photographic covers for them for several years. Both covers were shot with 4 X 5 slide film and strobe lights in the studio. All work was done in the camera there was no retouching.
On the beer cover we went through almost a case of beer trying to get the right head on the beer. It also required filtering the rear projection to correct color since the projector bulb is very yellow compared to the flash tubes. It also required three exposures one for each light source. The light sources were the projector, the light through the window and the light on the beer.
The fish in the bottle was much easier. I used a translucent background material and placed the main light behind it. Then a fill light next to the camera give the fish a little color. It took a lot of exposures to get the fish in the right places.
I hope you enjoy these. When I get some new work done I will be sure to post what I am up to. Thanks.
