Luna's Playtime

Scraping the Sky and Urban Canopy

Scraping the Sky

Urban Canopy

Early Light by Bryant Park

Times Square (AM)

Light Painting on Commute

Rockefeller Reflections

Fountain in Motion

Sparrows have brown eyes

The Eyes Have It

Kiera rested patiently on my lap long enough for a closeup

Can you see the room reflected in my iris?

Into the Sunset

Out of many attempts this was the best sunset picture driving home, slightly cropped and rotated for your viewing pleasure.

Lightspeed

Midtown Dusk Drive

Manhattan Reflections

 I had fun making this shot from a single picture as we were crossing the Throgs Neck Bridge

Straightened and cropped with the bridge blacked out.

Original

Victory Lap

Taken June 16th, 2011

HOWTO: Hyperreal Suburbia

No camera can take this picture. This is a merger of a single photo that was shifted across the spectrum to emphasize the contrasts that we normally do not see in the upper and lower ranges of light.

Enjoy!

Final Product

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Steps to recreate...

(1) Original

(2) Use the Levels tool to focus on the lower end of the spectrum at the cost of washing out the sky.

(3) Use the Levels tool to focus on the higher end of the spectrum such that the normal visible range is quite dark.

(4) A gradual transparent erasure of the sky region from the over-exposed ground picture. Layer that on top of the understated sky picture for the final result.

To the Setting Sun

Lunar Pinch

2011 July 4th Stars

Seeing in the Dark : Reconstructing Images

Heather took this 15 Second exposure of me at the beach.
Like something out of a movie there was enough data in the blacks of this picture to create this recontruction

Original
(check this out in your favorite image editor to try it yourself)

Same image with some buffs added to the Levels

Moonlight