Showing posts with label Photography: Park Slope Roof Shots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography: Park Slope Roof Shots. Show all posts
Brooklyn and Manhattan Lightning - September 22nd, 2010 Approx 9-9:30pm
Oddly the first place that I saw lightning tonight was reflected in the cereal bowl next to me, but I ran right up to the roof to see if I could catch any of the deep blue lightning that was lighting up the sky. Out of the hundreds of shots that I took tonight, the three below are the ones that really came through. These were all shot with a Canon G11 inside of Canon's waterproof housing for the camera. Due to the pouring rain that I was standing in, you'll see some out of focus blobs on the photos: those are rain droplets on the lens of the waterproof housing. The colors in these photos are not altered other than adding some saturation in-camera. The exposures were so bright that to give them more clarity I took the exposure levels all the way down in Lightroom which gives them a much deeper and quite frankly more accurate feel. I find the first two shots remarkably interesting due to what I'm calling "Lightning blobs" in the middle of the bursts. The third shot is the one that I'm the most proud of though. Of all the literally thousands of photos that I've taken from our rooftop this is my clear favorite: I was actually able to capture lightning striking the Empire State Building's lightning rod - enjoy!
9/11 9th Anniversary Tribute In Lights
Photos taken from rooftop in Brooklyn with Canon 5D Mark II w/17-40mm f4L
From the Roof: October 29th, 2009
A couple nights ago I looked out our back window and noticed that the clouds were all hanging right about the level of the Empire State Building which I knew would make interesting photos. The clouds were beautiful and showed up in the photos even better than I'd hoped they would - enjoy! The second shot is with my camera set to heavy saturation which is the reason for the richer colors; the bright building off to the right lighting up the clouds is the Empire State Building. I set the camera at more of mid-aperature than I normally do, which I think helped make these photos a little sharper than some of my previous posts in this series (all images are straight out of the camera).
From the Roof: July 4th, 2009
These shots were taking between midnight and 1am on the 4th - the night before the fireworks. All photos shot with my Canon 17-40mm f4L lens. The third photo is looking down onto our street in front of the apartment: the shots of the highway and Manhattan skyline are all looking off the back of the building.
From the Roof: January 10th, 2009
The first shot below is what's become my very standard composition from the roof. With the recent purchase of a Canon 17-40mm f4L lens, I'm now able to get quite a bit wider of a shot than with my older 28-105. The black and white below is of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, the tallest building in Brooklyn. The reason it's the tallest in Brooklyn? It's actually illegal to build anything higher than it. Funny thing is that it's now owned by Magic Johnson, who's converting it into luxury condos. Ridiculous. The Bank Tower photo was taken with a Canon 100-400mm f3.5-5.6L IS lens - the building is just over a mile and a half away from us (the lens was not zoomed to 400mm).
From the Roof: May 24th, 2008
Note: in the second photo I was using my flash to highlight the roof a bit, which is what the blue glow is. Both photos taken with a Canon 17-40mm f4L lens.
From The Roof: September 11th, 2007
All the photos in this series are shots taken from the roof of our apartment building in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The first shot below is of the BQE (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) rising up over the Gowanas Canal: the towers in the background are in Jersey City, NJ. The second shot is of Brooklyn, New Jersey, and Manhattan - the lights are the memorial lights at the World Trade Center, where the World Trade Center twin towers once stood. Both shot with a Canon 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 lens.
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