Canal St. Watertower

Shot yesterday in Chinatown on Canal/Mulberry St. No Lightroom needed for this one!

bonus! more photos from that day..

Bowery/Grand St.

The 300 (movie) look. I think...

West Soho - 002

Another shot of West Soho with a colder look.

West Side NYC

Another photo of West Side NYC taken from the same window in the office.

Apocalyptic Brooklyn Bridge

Yes, yet another variation of the Brooklyn Bridge photo. I originally wanted that photo to be yellowish orange for that apocalyptic look but Lightroom can't change colors and I don't know how to use Photoshop, so I sent it to a friend of mine to do it and here are the results.

This is what my friend came up with first which is really sick...

..but this is what I really wanted...

West Soho - 001

I shot this on May 27th 2008 at 7:10pm while I was in Soho. I saw a watertower in the far distance and wanted to shoot it with the buildings and street down the middle and stuff but, as it turned out, the main object in this shot is actually the crane. Cranes are cool, too. Just that crane alone gives it that industrial look. It's one of the reasons why I changed the sky to a fiery orange for that industrial apocalyptic feel. I also decided to crop out the street because it looked a little corny.

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After

Brooklyn Bridge Post-Lightroom

So, I took that last Brooklyn Bridge photo down there and decided to mess with it in Lightroom. I wanted to give it that dark look. I think I achieved that look and is dramatically different from the original.

Photo of the day!

Many of you (my friends) know I work at a very tall building where I can get awesome shots of the city. I've shot a shit-ton of photos of this view that I'm sure many of you got really bored of looking at whenever I show them off. But this one looks more interesting than the others. I shot this on Tuesday (June 3rd). I like how the sun is in the shot with a bunch of clouds underneath it and the sun's rays shooting through them. Pretty cool.

..and minor touch ups in Lightroom...

The Brooklyn Bridge

I wanted to shoot the Brooklyn Bridge because I heard from my friend that there are color changing lights all over it like a friggin' Christmas tree, but cooler. So, I got there right after work at 6 and figured I can get a nice shot of it from the South Street Seaport. Turns out, it's not so great if you don't have a wide angle lens. But, I took several shots of the bridge and tried to get as much of it in with my non-wide lens. Kinda crappy. So, I went down to the boardwalk and got real close to the side and took a crap load of shots. It was cold, it was windy, and there were lots of bikers, joggers, chinese, and a few weird people. Oh, and two buddhist monks sat next to me. I didn't get to see the colored lights. I waited patiently but got really hungry, cold, and tired so I decided to leave at 8:30. Maybe next time. Hopefully soon. I took a little over 100 shots but these are some of the best (or just interesting) shots I picked out...

Oh crap.

Hey everyone! What the hell have I gotten myself into? I couldn't even go on with my xanga blog! I'll try to put up fresh posts and have new photos to show as often as possible. That is, if I'm not too lazy (which I usually am).

Anyways, here's a photo that I shot and messed with using Adobe Lightroom. I like this photo alot despite what other people think (you know who you are). This was at 14th St. between 5th Ave. and Union Place. I shot it because the clouds looked cool with the watertowers around it.. or vice versa. My reasoning for graying out the watertowers is because I think they're so forgotten and overlooked by alot of people and the graying out represents that "forgotten" look that I was going for. I added more blue to the skies 'cause it obviously brings more attention to not only the clouds but also helped guide that attention to the watertowers around it... or maybe I'm just making up this horseshit as I type this. Whatever. I like it... the photo, that is.

Here's the original...

...and after Lightroom.