Park Slope Rally: 9.14.2011

In response to multiple recent rapes and rape attempts in Park Slope (Brooklyn) and the surrounding neighbhorhoods, Safe Slope, a "Brooklyn-based group providing services and resources to help empower and protect the communities of South Slope/Greenwood Heights/Windsor Terrace/Park Slope," organized a "Take Back The Streets" Rally which happened September 14th, 2011 from 8-10pm.  The rally/march began at the Prospect Ave Subway Station on the R line, marched along 4th and then 5th Ave, and then rallied in Detective Joseph Mayrose Park on 17th Street between 6th and 7th Aves.  Below are some photos of the march/rally, along with some links to videos that I shot during the event.     









Pinhole Self Portrait

The self-portrait below was created by punching a small hole in the body cap of my small Rebel XTi and using it as a pinhole camera.  I used a small maglight to light myself during the exposure (20 seconds) and then processed the image in Lightroom.  The coverage using the 'cap pinhole' doesn't even fully cover the 1.6x crop sensor, so I wouldn't even bother trying it on my 5DII, but I think it could produce a lot of interesting images on any 1.6x camera (Canon xxD series, Rebel series, 7D) and would be even sized on 1.5x cameras (Nikon DX).