Well it was a very long day for me and I'm exhausted, but I figured I'd throw one up here before going to bed. (So I can get up and go back to the city tomorrow!)

Danielle


Teamwork....

What a nice shot Danielle. I wish I could have gotten to the gathering. Would you mind identifying the other photographers here? :)

Seriously, I like the innate houmor in this shot and the look of concentration and maybe boredom on the face of the guy on the right.

Great shot Danielle - my monkey shots weren't so great.

Here's a couple of mine.

Liz





Well it was a very long day for me and I'm exhausted, but I figured I'd throw one up here before going to bed. (So I can get up and go back to the city tomorrow!)

Danielle


Teamwork....

Awe giraffes! I saw them briefly - this trip just reminded me that I really should get down there more often. I didn't realize that you had gotten a shot of the girl you guys mentioned when we were talking about the face-painting. That shot came out great Liz! So glad I finally got to meet you and got to meet Joe.

Danielle

Chunk! Don't you recognize Walterick?? He made it after all!

Heh - sorry Rickster, just had to rag on our captain, who didn't even bother to board the ship, let alone go down with it! Seriously though - hope you feel better soon!

Danielle

Danielle and Liz,

Great shots and glad to know that the first day of the New York Gathering went well! Nice shooting.

This was our group at the Bronx Zoo today (except I'm behind the camera) :p
These are a bit overexposed........I didn't have the polarizer on for these. :rolleyes:

Joe, Danielle, Sharon and baby Matthew
Rick :D

Liz



Chunk! Don't you recognize Walterick?? He made it after all!

Heh - sorry Rickster, just had to rag on our captain, who didn't even bother to board the ship, let alone go down with it! Seriously though - hope you feel better soon!

Danielle

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See, I told you guys I'd be there in spirit!

Boy, I'm never gonna live this one down am I.

For my sake I hope it turns into pneumonia so you guys all feel badly :p

In all seriousness I do feel better today thanks all for your wishes.

Danielle I love your first shot that's really great.

Liz your shot of the girl is just amazing.

See you all in Central Park tomorrow. I'll be the monkey on Liz's back ;)

Rick

I showed up at B&H around10:15, rather exhausted from a 50-hour workwek, hanging out last night with another friend in town, and getting woken up by drunken stupid neighbors having a 6:30 a.m. picnic essentially under my window. I sat by the exit and waited, hoping that a PR person was inside! Fortunately, Danielle (Mig) soon bounded with a new lens in tow. I ran inside and picked up some film for my current project, and we got on the train and headed uptown. When we got there, I realized that I took us to the wrong side of the park! So we hopped on the crosstown bus and arrived at the proper meeting spot in ample time. We resolved that if no one showed by noon, we would hop on another bus and go see the Arbus show at the Met. Soon, someone strolled by with a rather suspect camera bag. Sure enough, one of us! Seb joined us. We then mosied on to the gardens in Central Park. I got to try out Mig's Lensbaby. Oooh, fuuuuunnnn... - I might have to get one for my 10S.

Seb was into the idea of going to the Met, so we hopped on the M1 and had lunch in the cafeteria, which the Met cleverly moved since I was last there. Trickeration. The Arbus exhibit was extensive with many of her more famous images hung, as well as earlier less known work. There were 3 separate rooms dedicated to her thought process, very interesting. You could have spent an afternoon in one of them alone. My favorite was the darkroom set up, with her actual enlarger, work prints, contact sheets. There was another room that detailed her transition from 35mm to 2.25x2.25 - very interesting writings. It was really neat to not just see her images, but really get into her mind. Portions of her notebooks and journals were hung and quoted throughout.

I left Seb at 86th Street, and I've got an inkling that he may have had to have stopped at the Guggenheim for at least a photo or two! Just an inkling - it remains to be seen.

It was really great seeing Danielle again, and meeting Seb for the first time. It took me all afternoon to square away which Sebastian he is (sorry, I was so exhausted, I could barely stand let alone retain information.) but I've got it all straight in my head now!

To bad Rick was only there with us in print and in spirit. Heh, can't wait for those photos!

Megan

Great shots from a great Zoo. Glad to hear you all had a good day full of photo -ops. Did you all visit the bird house there? That is an amazing exhibit.

These are tremendous shots -- all of them. So good to see Joe Mags, and Danielle -- and isn't that Joe's wife and new baby I see in the group shot?

I thought that first shot was of Rick, Gene and me -- Rick with his back turned in shame for allowing mere pneumonia to keep him from the Gathering, me in the middle trying to give Rick encouragement and Gene there on the right looking on in dazed wonder. :D

Looks like you guys really had a good time. I'm anxious to see MORE!

My Best to You,
Penny


Ya know,

had it not been for my double ear infection, nasal infection and broncitis.... I would have joined in at the last minute at the zoo or Central park AND CALLED OUT SICK for the first time in 2 years . I called out for tinight already though, so there goes my perfect attendance.... rats!

But ..... I wasn't the guy who set it up was I ;)

ALL these images are GREAT!!!

danielle and i were going to try to sneak a photo of the photo of you between two arbus photos, but there was so much security around. and they were pretty bored, standing around and all like security does, so you know that they would have seen it.



:D

megan

Howdy all,

Last week end was a good one. It should be clearly stated somewhere that "NYC may create an addiction, visitors discretion is adviced...." This was my second visit in a life time and boy that I love the place!.

I reached the city at 4:30pm on saturday and I showed up at the PhilosophyBox arround 7pm. I was rigth on time as it started to rain 15 minutes later. Meeting Gary was a true pleasure. He his a real gentleman. I feel blessed to have seen some of his prints for real. Watching his work on a computer screen is nice but the prints are nothing less than striking. Later on we catched Nina and shared a meal. We had a good time.

I wish I could have been there earlier saturday to meet you folks at the zoo. Maybe next time....

I showed up 20 minutes late at B&H on sunday. I figured out that the place would be quiet and that I could easily identify a bunch of photog hanging out together but I was wrong.... The place was crowded like stores are in Montreal on December 23... Later on I got "somewhat" lost in Central Park but I managed to reach Megan and Mig at the meeting point. I am glad to know them, we had a good day. The Arbus exhibit was truly interesting. I didn't knew her nor her work (gloomy, disturbing and highly fascinating) but the exhibit was well made and quite interesting for the reasons that Megan stated.

Megan: I did went to the Guggenheim! The building is awesome. I have only shot pictures inside as it started to rain rather quickly after I reached the place. I'll post some of them on the Viewfinder soon.

Mig: I just got to realise who you really are... well hmm... right now!! lol. I noticed some of your photographs in the past but didn't realised that it was you. I should spend (a lot) more time on the Viewfinder. Please, post the "group" shot here. I wanna see it!!!

regards

Seb

Ok so here is a quicky from Central Park.

Now, out of topic, does anybody knows how to get a final picture that match the original (with Photoshop) while saving for the web??? I work my RAW files which are shot in Adobe RGB mode. I supose that Photoshop apply an sRGB conversion while saving for the web and it seriously mess up the results. I didn't had this problem while shooting directly in sRGB mode at the first place. I am sorry for taking the tread in another direction but I had to ask!

More pictures from the gathering to come in the short run.

Seb

edit: If anyone have a solution to my Photoshop issue please send me a private message in order not to mess up with the current tread. Thanks!!

Hi Seb

Nice image - glad you enjoyed Central Park.

.........regarding the questions, you might want to cross-post this information and question in the Digital Imaging Forum - here's the link (or Helpfiles). You would probably get more advice.

Now, out of topic, does anybody knows how to get a final picture that match the original (with Photoshop) while saving for the web???

Digital Imaging Forum
http://forums.photographyreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=32

Liz

Bear - lighting not great......but he was soooooo cute!

The tigers were shot through a very dirty window. :confused: I loved the tigers!
The 2nd one is just a cropped version of the first.

The Flamingos made a nice peaceful scene.


Liz

Bear - lighting not great......but he was soooooo cute!

The tigers were shot through a very dirty window. :confused: I loved the tigers!
The 2nd one is just a cropped version of the first.

Pelicans was a nice peaceful scene.


Liz

Liz,

Just wonderful shots. The closeup of the tiger was very good! Don't you mean flamingo's by the way in the bottom shot?:p Or am I extrememly missing something?!!

Thanks Jared! You certainly were missing anything - you got that right. I have a migraine today.........guess it's effecting my brain. :rolleyes:

Liz

Liz,

Just wonderful shots. The closeup of the tiger was very good! Don't you mean flamingo's by the way in the bottom shot?:p Or am I extrememly missing something?!!

Ok, Ok so it's my "babies" at the Bronx Zoo... Had a great time and It was nice to see Liz again and to meet Danielle for the first time. My film (I know, what's that) is still being developed. I'll post a few when I get the prints back. These two pictures were taken by Liz. Thanks Liz!

Take Care,
Joe Mags

Ok, Ok so it's my "babies" at the Bronx Zoo... Had a great time and It was nice to see Liz again and to meet Danielle for the first time. My film (I know, what's that) is still being developed. I'll post a few when I get the prints back. These two pictures were taken by Liz. Thanks Liz!

Take Care,
Joe Mags

LOL! Now that's what I am talking about! Be proud of your babies (both of them actually...)

Seb

Hi Seb

Nice image - glad you enjoyed Central Park.

.........regarding the questions, you might want to cross-post this information and question in the Digital Imaging Forum - here's the link (or Helpfiles). You would probably get more advice.

Now, out of topic, does anybody knows how to get a final picture that match the original (with Photoshop) while saving for the web???

Digital Imaging Forum
http://forums.photographyreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=32

Liz

Thanks Liz, you are right!

Seb

Ask and ye shall receive!

I've been slacking the past few nights on editing, but I'll get around to it (eventually).

For now:

1) Megan, (Rick), Seb

2) Ooh, yeah, that's the spot!

3) Ya know, I really did take photos of animals other than these monkeys at the zoo (I swear!), but look at this dude's face!

4) Lensbaby flowers

That's beautiful Seb - I can never get B&W conversions of flowers to come out right, but yours looks great.

It was great meeting you!

Danielle

Ask and ye shall receive!

I've been slacking the past few nights on editing, but I'll get around to it (eventually).

For now:

1) Megan, (Rick), Seb

2) Ooh, yeah, that's the spot!

3) Ya know, I really did take photos of animals other than these monkeys at the zoo (I swear!), but look at this dude's face!

4) Lensbaby flowers

Oh yes! I like the group shot! So as you can all see, Rick made it... somehow.... ;)
I love your flowers shot Mig. The lensbaby effect is very neat on that one.
Thanks for your comment on my b&w conversion. I must say that the channel mixer (Photoshop CS2) really help. I would have worked a lot to get that kind of effect with Photoshop Element 2.

regards!

Seb

The striking architecture of this museum leads to several opportunities....

Seb

Seb, I really like that black and white shot of the tulips. Very well composed.
Mig, your lensbaby shot of the field of flowers just cost me $150.00 because I will be ordering one this week. I had never even heard of this product before you showed me yours at the zoo. Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me. Really nice photo.

Take Care,
Joe Mags

Seb,

Great shooting! Some wonderful shots you got there!

Jared

Seb, excellent shots from the Guggenheim. Well done!!

I really love your flower shots Seb and the Guggenhein was an excellent opportunity and apparently you made the most of it.

Wow......these shots are great. You certainly took advantage of the "opportunities" and these are awesome.

Liz

The striking architecture of this museum leads to several opportunities....

Seb

Danielle,
These are great........you have me sold - I'm going to order a lensbaby. This flower image is really GREAT!

Was this shot in NY or at the zoo?

Liz

Ask and ye shall receive!

I've been slacking the past few nights on editing, but I'll get around to it (eventually).

For now:

1) Megan, (Rick), Seb

2) Ooh, yeah, that's the spot!

3) Ya know, I really did take photos of animals other than these monkeys at the zoo (I swear!), but look at this dude's face!

4) Lensbaby flowers

[QUOTE=joemags]
Mig, your lensbaby shot of the field of flowers just cost me $150.00 because I will be ordering one this week. /QUOTE]

Muahahahahahahaha, first a lensbaby, and then... and then....

-best darth vader imitation-
Joe, come to the dark side! The Holga awaits you!


:D

Just geeking out a bit.
I'll go back to the corner and settle down.

Megan

the photos i was waiting for.

Good shots. i especially love the black and white one.

megan

Got my prints back today and a few look really nice. These are just quick scans of the prints, so sorry for the crudeness and such. Not a lot of time these days!

Take Care,
Joe Mags

These are really good, Joe. Very sharp, great color - guess it's worth carrying that "baby" 300mm lens around!

They're all good, but I just love that little brown monkey. :D

Please post some more.

Liz

Got my prints back today and a few look really nice. These are just quick scans of the prints, so sorry for the crudeness and such. Not a lot of time these days!

Take Care,
Joe Mags

That baby gorilla shot is adorable! These are really great Joe.

Did a little more tonight:

1) Tiger expressing his feelings about not getting to see Rick

2) Polar bear

3) More lensbaby flowers (and I love that I've started people on their journey to the dark side!! Like Megan said Joe, the black tape is only a few steps away!)

Some from the way home:

1 - Under one of the bridges in Central Park

2 - Bridal party getting caught in the rain

3 - Shoe w/ Sock - Metro North Train

These are freaking awesome Seb. The B&W is gorgeous - love the three figures in the bottom right. Very nice.

Danielle

I think your tigers came out great Liz, and yeah the lighting on the bears wasn't ideal, but you did a great job with it anyway.

Danielle

That's in Central Park - a little garden Megan led us to. You're going to love the lensbaby Liz - sooo much fun to shoot with.

Danielle

Some from the way home:

1 - Under one of the bridges in Central Park

2 - Bridal party getting caught in the rain

3 - Shoe w/ Sock - Metro North Train

Good God! You didn't loose your time on your way home!
I especially like the first picture of this short series (you catched the "moment" and the tonalities are great) but the three hold my attention.

Street photography, that's something I should try to work.

regards

Seb

Thanks Mig, Megan, Liz, Joe, Gary, Nina, Jared for your positive feedback!!

I might have some more to post but I won't do any post processing right now. I badly need sleep!! I might have some more picture to display here within a day or two.

Seb

Wow.......nice trip home. Typical NY! if I must say so. ;)

I like all of them - they each tell a story and leave a mystery - and some fun. That's what I love about street photography. It's about all I do now. I don't have a lot of photography time, and it gives me the most fun, especially in NY.

I'm going to NY tomorrow to see what I can find for Fleet Week.

Great job, Danielle.......

Liz

Some from the way home:

1 - Under one of the bridges in Central Park

2 - Bridal party getting caught in the rain

3 - Shoe w/ Sock - Metro North Train

Hey Seb, Joe, Liz, Megan & Danielle

Looks like you guys had a really great time. I am so sorry I had to bail on my own photogathering! I will hold a doozy in the southwest to make up for it, promise! I'm also glad to see a few PR members coming together and meeting for the first time!

On the homefront here it turns out that Saturday was the worst of my cold, which turned out to be a sinus infection, so I'm glad I didn't try to drive. Not pneumonia, LOL Glad I was there in spirit and in print! Thanks Megs! Looking forward to more pictures! You guys ROCK!!

Rick

Rick,
We did have a good time. And if it weren't for you setting it up, we wouldn't have been there. :D However, we did miss you.....a lot. :rolleyes:

The Odd Couple - these two "friends" were playing tag for quite a while, chasing each other around. It was really cute.

Liz

Oooh, the bridal party shot is just classic!

REALLY love the tulips with the lensbaby.
I might have to get me one and start shooting 35mm again. Then again, I could just get a digita.....


NNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
:p

Megan

...............

Great image Seb. You got the eye!!

OldTimer: Thanks for watching and congrats for your new status of grand father!!

Rick: You were nice on print lol! I wish I had the opportunity to meet you in person. Maybe at the next gathering...

Here is one from Central Park. I guess it would have been better with someone in the frame but it still works for me.

Seb

It's tulips time!

Wow Seb, I love these. It looks like you spent some time setting these up. I love how you framed the Centralpark one. It has a nice feel of balance to it. I also really like your execution on the flowers but would love to see them in color if at all possible.