The Nikon D70 Review - New York City (Part II)
Black and White Experimentations
I would say that black and white photos are even more difficult to edit, than color ones are. In the sense, when all color has been drained away, there often is a deeper meaning or a more artistic expression in the photographs. Is it why a good number of artistic photographers end up with a 50mm normal lens, a manual camera and black and white film?
I'm just doing this for the fun of it. To test things out. Personally, I felt that the photographs I took in New York didn't do the city justice at all. Pictures are pretty much nothing more than mere snapshots that anyone else could have taken. Someday, I would love to imagine a scene, and create it. Not wait for a nice opportunity and capture it.
Times Square at night. MTV building on the left. Wonderfully crowded, jammed packed with people of almost every creed, race and religion in the odd intersection of 5th Avenue, Broadway and 42nd Street.
Street vendor selling framed photographs of New Yorck City at Battery Park. Its quite interesting to note that practically every other road side stall has the same framed pictures for sale. Most probably all the pictures were obtained from the same source. Practically all road side vendors I observed were immigrants. I really wonder how they make their living selling stuff on the cheap, in the city with the most expensive cost of living in America.
Most of the street vendors are often heavily fined (US 1000)by the New York Governor's office for trivial offences like not being 23 feet away from a door. Recently, a court justice ruled that the New York governor's quadrupling of the fines on street vendors was unethical and unconstitutional, and she revoked all the fines outstanding on all the street vendors in New York City.
Pigeons feasting on a Sunday morning off a sidewalk in Times Square. I wonder who in his right frame of mind would just hurl a whole bagful of pigeon feed onto the road surface, a stone's throw away from the NYPD recruitment box at the heart of Times Square?
I wonder why the pigeons in New York, or most other major cities in the world, can be approached to close distances without them taking off for flight. Like they almost prefer to walk away from pedestrians rather than to leap away at first sight. Not the case in Singapore, definitely.
5th Avenue signboard. Someone was either bored enough, or by sheer wit of genius, to hang a used can of coffee by a string to the signpost. And we're talking about something that's 6 meters above ground level.
5th Avenue in Singapore is a sleepy, upper class landed property estate area. 5th Avenue in New York City is the queen of streets. Cutting from north to south of Manhattan Island. It is the avenue which by all other streets gain their East or West references from.
Very unique architecture of the Flatiron building. Built in 1902 and made out complete of cast iron. It really is an architectural beauty, a civil engineering wonder and marvel at its time and its triangular shape is governed by the plot of land that it lies upon - Broadway cutting another major street.
Most of the streets in New York City are arranged in a neat grid. Very much like mathematical cartesian coordinates. The only exception being Broadway, which happily cuts through the entire grid diagonally most of the time. And makes for such interesting buildings. Remember, its "Flat-Iron". Not "Fla-Ti-Ron".
Free copy of the New York Times being given out at Church street. A very short turn away from Ground Zero. The newspapers were being sponsered by one of the Swiss Banks in Wall Street, which lies a very short distance away from where this picture was taken.
The New York Times represents a forefront in journalism standards. And it really does upkeep to the notion of the First Amendment too. They've hired Kenneth Starr to sue Attorney-General John Ashcroft in a bid to protect the confidentiality of their sources.
What's best is that the paper isn't 50% blanketed in useless or tasteless ads. Oh come on, there's a time where you get enough of all the handphone ringtone, chat line and get rich quick MLM scheme advertisements in our local dailies.
A road side fruitstall seller in Chinatown. Food prices and prices in general are very much cheaper in Chinatown than anywhere else in Manhattan. Not to mention that chinese food is actually GOOD here. Really, its less than a dollar for a bunch of Bananas.
Fa Lun Gong demonstrator in Times Square at Night. After tirelessly campaigning their cause before and during the Republican National Congress held in New York City. The US House of representatives has made a formal statement that urges China to "demonstrate its willingness to abide by international standards of freedom of belief, expression, and association by ceasing to restrict those freedoms" in China.
It has also requested that president George W. Bush make "a formal protest" to the Chinese Foreign Ministry "in response to the repeated violations by the Chinese Government of basic human rights" in China. China's a great country. Just ruled by shitty politicians. After all, its The "People's" "Republic" of China.
A notable sight. A middle eastern muslim man sells X-rated magazines at the road side magazine stall along 6th Avenue, New York City. Talk about conflict of religion and conflict of interest. Is American really "The Great Satan" that Iran has so often described missively?
Of course, all other popular magazines are sold here as well. What's more notable is that in Chinatown specifically. The road side magazine stalls openly place chinese pornographic magazines covers into the visible glass viewing sections at the side of the stalls. Almost feels like what my economics teacher would call "marketing principles". Or was it "Product Differentiation"? - I never knew that mathematics would be so "applicable" to products as well.
A worker cleans off the signboard of the latest play to arrive in New York City - Mama Mia! Indeed, it is regreful that I never had the chance to watch a broadway film while in New York. What is even worst was not being able to see the New York Yankees play at the Yankee Stadium. That is truly mama mia...
The Queue for broadway show tickets at Times Square. This is the end of the queue. When this picture was taken, the queue was about 2 blocks in length. Something like the queue of Hello! Kitty at McDonald's in Singapore. Only that the people are much nicer.
Shifting of one of the stone lions outside the HSBC bank branch in Chinatown. The moving of the lion is taken so seriously that there are security guards as well as a feng shui master around to measure the exact position as well as alignment of the lion's new position. I was almost stopped from taking this photograph as it was deemed "sensitive" by the bank.
Yellow Cab. You can technically walk around Manhattan or use the subway most of the time for any transport needs. Taxis are really expensive and 90% of the drivers are recent new immigrants to New York City. Beware. Their driving skills and raod mannerisms are even better and worst than our blue cabs in Singapore.
Be prepared for lots of horning, lots of light flashing. Abrupt lane changes. Most of all, you have to pay tax and tip the taxi driver after the ride and do not expect to sit in front. New York Taxi drivers almost have too much stuff in their front seats. Lastly, do not expect the airconditioner to be on. The windows are wound down most of the time.
(The Rest are Photos that I don't know where they can fit and what to make of them)
Black and White Experimentations
I would say that black and white photos are even more difficult to edit, than color ones are. In the sense, when all color has been drained away, there often is a deeper meaning or a more artistic expression in the photographs. Is it why a good number of artistic photographers end up with a 50mm normal lens, a manual camera and black and white film?
I'm just doing this for the fun of it. To test things out. Personally, I felt that the photographs I took in New York didn't do the city justice at all. Pictures are pretty much nothing more than mere snapshots that anyone else could have taken. Someday, I would love to imagine a scene, and create it. Not wait for a nice opportunity and capture it.
Times Square at night. MTV building on the left. Wonderfully crowded, jammed packed with people of almost every creed, race and religion in the odd intersection of 5th Avenue, Broadway and 42nd Street.
Street vendor selling framed photographs of New Yorck City at Battery Park. Its quite interesting to note that practically every other road side stall has the same framed pictures for sale. Most probably all the pictures were obtained from the same source. Practically all road side vendors I observed were immigrants. I really wonder how they make their living selling stuff on the cheap, in the city with the most expensive cost of living in America.
Most of the street vendors are often heavily fined (US 1000)by the New York Governor's office for trivial offences like not being 23 feet away from a door. Recently, a court justice ruled that the New York governor's quadrupling of the fines on street vendors was unethical and unconstitutional, and she revoked all the fines outstanding on all the street vendors in New York City.
Pigeons feasting on a Sunday morning off a sidewalk in Times Square. I wonder who in his right frame of mind would just hurl a whole bagful of pigeon feed onto the road surface, a stone's throw away from the NYPD recruitment box at the heart of Times Square?
I wonder why the pigeons in New York, or most other major cities in the world, can be approached to close distances without them taking off for flight. Like they almost prefer to walk away from pedestrians rather than to leap away at first sight. Not the case in Singapore, definitely.
5th Avenue signboard. Someone was either bored enough, or by sheer wit of genius, to hang a used can of coffee by a string to the signpost. And we're talking about something that's 6 meters above ground level.
5th Avenue in Singapore is a sleepy, upper class landed property estate area. 5th Avenue in New York City is the queen of streets. Cutting from north to south of Manhattan Island. It is the avenue which by all other streets gain their East or West references from.
Very unique architecture of the Flatiron building. Built in 1902 and made out complete of cast iron. It really is an architectural beauty, a civil engineering wonder and marvel at its time and its triangular shape is governed by the plot of land that it lies upon - Broadway cutting another major street.
Most of the streets in New York City are arranged in a neat grid. Very much like mathematical cartesian coordinates. The only exception being Broadway, which happily cuts through the entire grid diagonally most of the time. And makes for such interesting buildings. Remember, its "Flat-Iron". Not "Fla-Ti-Ron".
Free copy of the New York Times being given out at Church street. A very short turn away from Ground Zero. The newspapers were being sponsered by one of the Swiss Banks in Wall Street, which lies a very short distance away from where this picture was taken.
The New York Times represents a forefront in journalism standards. And it really does upkeep to the notion of the First Amendment too. They've hired Kenneth Starr to sue Attorney-General John Ashcroft in a bid to protect the confidentiality of their sources.
What's best is that the paper isn't 50% blanketed in useless or tasteless ads. Oh come on, there's a time where you get enough of all the handphone ringtone, chat line and get rich quick MLM scheme advertisements in our local dailies.
A road side fruitstall seller in Chinatown. Food prices and prices in general are very much cheaper in Chinatown than anywhere else in Manhattan. Not to mention that chinese food is actually GOOD here. Really, its less than a dollar for a bunch of Bananas.
Fa Lun Gong demonstrator in Times Square at Night. After tirelessly campaigning their cause before and during the Republican National Congress held in New York City. The US House of representatives has made a formal statement that urges China to "demonstrate its willingness to abide by international standards of freedom of belief, expression, and association by ceasing to restrict those freedoms" in China.
It has also requested that president George W. Bush make "a formal protest" to the Chinese Foreign Ministry "in response to the repeated violations by the Chinese Government of basic human rights" in China. China's a great country. Just ruled by shitty politicians. After all, its The "People's" "Republic" of China.
A notable sight. A middle eastern muslim man sells X-rated magazines at the road side magazine stall along 6th Avenue, New York City. Talk about conflict of religion and conflict of interest. Is American really "The Great Satan" that Iran has so often described missively?
Of course, all other popular magazines are sold here as well. What's more notable is that in Chinatown specifically. The road side magazine stalls openly place chinese pornographic magazines covers into the visible glass viewing sections at the side of the stalls. Almost feels like what my economics teacher would call "marketing principles". Or was it "Product Differentiation"? - I never knew that mathematics would be so "applicable" to products as well.
A worker cleans off the signboard of the latest play to arrive in New York City - Mama Mia! Indeed, it is regreful that I never had the chance to watch a broadway film while in New York. What is even worst was not being able to see the New York Yankees play at the Yankee Stadium. That is truly mama mia...
The Queue for broadway show tickets at Times Square. This is the end of the queue. When this picture was taken, the queue was about 2 blocks in length. Something like the queue of Hello! Kitty at McDonald's in Singapore. Only that the people are much nicer.
Shifting of one of the stone lions outside the HSBC bank branch in Chinatown. The moving of the lion is taken so seriously that there are security guards as well as a feng shui master around to measure the exact position as well as alignment of the lion's new position. I was almost stopped from taking this photograph as it was deemed "sensitive" by the bank.
Yellow Cab. You can technically walk around Manhattan or use the subway most of the time for any transport needs. Taxis are really expensive and 90% of the drivers are recent new immigrants to New York City. Beware. Their driving skills and raod mannerisms are even better and worst than our blue cabs in Singapore.
Be prepared for lots of horning, lots of light flashing. Abrupt lane changes. Most of all, you have to pay tax and tip the taxi driver after the ride and do not expect to sit in front. New York Taxi drivers almost have too much stuff in their front seats. Lastly, do not expect the airconditioner to be on. The windows are wound down most of the time.
(The Rest are Photos that I don't know where they can fit and what to make of them)
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