Stefan's Stuff

This is a shot of 40th and Park AvenueI took in 1992 at 12:17am on a Saturday morning. Here I saved it as a 24bit PNG image. Here is a link to the same image saved as a JPEG File. (Notice how different it is vs. a Rainslicked street?) It has the same resolution, but IMO the PNG file looks better but they are probably equal quality.

Unfortunately, I got there late, but I did get to see Jesse Chan-Norris give an interesting presentation on a series of shots he took of Manikins (Sounds weird, I know, but it actually isn’t). Unfortunately, I forgot My Flash! The pictures aren’t as good as I’d like, these were barely usable…

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I’m going thru some of the old pictures I printed and came accross this one. This was a small protest on Park Avenue South and 26th street to speak out against the CUNY tuition increase. I was leaving for another class and just saw them thru the Lobby entrance. I took the picture and went to class. What struck me afterwards was that I only got the lower half of the protest sign. Because of this: the picture could be any protest. I like how it worked out.

When I scanned the picture in, I left the border in and did not completly clean up the image. I think it looks more interesting that way.

Wednesday night, I’ll be going to the nyc photobloggers 3 at the Apple Store in Soho. Back in college, I used to take hundreds of Black and White photo’s of anything and everything. With Digital Camera’s it’s easier and Cheaper than developing Black & White film.

I’m not very good, but it was fun to do and I had an arrangement with the school Newspaper. I’d help develop and print pictures with the photo editor and get the Key to the Photo Lab. (Saved me lots of money on chemicals!) It worked out for the School newspaper too. They had lots of people to take pictures, but only the Photo editor had the patience to actually develop the pictures. I helped out and had a good time too.

Since I’m trying to get back into photography, I thought this would be a good way to see what other people are doing. Some of the Galleries are really good web sites.
Among them (in no particular order):

• Rion.nu
• Overshadowed
• Bluejake
• Youngna Park

It should be interesting. Besides the process of selection and display of images, I’m curious as to the software used in the Blogs.