Michael Shane's geekery, photography, and shenanigans

Riverside Church

Michael — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:45:51 +0000

The sun came out in New York City today, and there were definitely hints of springtime in the air.

Jamaica LIRR Station

Michael — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:11:29 +0000

Dvorak, Op. 96

Michael — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:59:59 +0000

For some reason whenever I ride a train I want to hear Dvorak. Today the train is the LIRR and the Dvorak would be his String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, “American”.

A few different treatments of a few different photos of one very special lady

Michael — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:21:43 +0000

I’m experimenting with some different treatments of one earlier photo and one new photo using some custom presets in Aperture 3. I agree with Scott Bourne that Aperture 3 is definitely slower than its predecessor in some ways. That said, it’s also true that Aperture 3 could marginalize or eliminate Photoshop from many photographers’ workflows. I have shot little to no HDR recently, so I haven’t launched Photoshop in months. And now that Aperture 3 has a curves brick, I may never need Photoshop again.

I’m on a bit of a 16:9 kick tonight. Can you tell? If you’ve got a preference for any of the photos below, please feel free to share it in the comments.

Hello Aperture 3

Michael — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:10:39 +0000

Nice to meet you.

You Are My Sunshine

Michael — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:59:06 +0000

Riverside Park, New York City

Pell St., Chinatown

Michael — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:45:54 +0000

Another visit to Joe’s Shanghai, another batch of their peerless soup dumplings, and another photo.

Happy New Year

Michael — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:08:53 +0000

Well, here we are.

The 365 project has concluded…although it is (quite conspicuously) not published yet. I’ll get there.

It will be interesting to see what becomes of this blog in 2010. My life got so busy in the last quarter of 2009 that the only pictures I had time to take were for my 365, and that really made me kind of blue. I’m looking forward to pointing my lens at something (anything) else besides my face this year, and I hope you’ll drop in every once in awhile and take a gander.

There will surely be geekery, photography, and shenanigans.

Some images aren’t crap, and therefore get their own post

Michael — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:07:21 +0000

I am really proud of these two photos that I took recently using my iPhone. So I decided to put them in a separate post. That is all.

Hotel Whitcomb, San Francisco

Riverside Park, New York City

The best camera is the one you’ve got time to actually use

Michael — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:04:50 +0000

The past few months have just gotten busier and busier, and I die a little bit inside every time I steal a yearning glance at my camera bag. Okay, so that’s a little melodramatic. I’ve actually had a good time trying to make good pictures using my iPhone 3G S. I’ve even been doing my 365 portraits, believe it or not! [Speaking of which: I will finish that project and publish all of the photos when it's finished. It's hard to believe the year is almost over!]

Anyway, here are some more iPhone photographs, all of which were taken with and processed on my iPhone.