After taking probably a few hundred flights with FlyNYON, you begin to look at different things throughout the city. I've been taking my 70-200mm f/4 up with me a lot more often because of its size. I was always discouraged taking big cameras up, especially when you have 2 bodies, but the size of a smaller mirrorless camera with a smaller f/4 zoom rather than a f/2.8 makes a huge difference. It makes camera changes quicker and helps with a steady shot since its much smaller and lighter in the wind…
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A NYC Bike Ride Home From Photo Plus
After attending the Photo Plus expo the other weekend, you see so many amazing huge prints, new gear, and hear free seminars that you can't help but want to go out and shoot photos right away. Luckily, I had my camera with me and it was an unseasonably warm night in NYC, so I was able to take my bike out and ride around while I waited for my wife to get out of work downtown. I also had my new Sony 12-24mm f/4, so it was a nice chance to utilize this focal length with street/ cityscape photography...
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Photo Of The Week 56 - Giving Your Subject A New Look - New York City
As photographers or artists, we find ourselves in a state of repetition more often then we would like to admit. For me, I often photograph a lot of Downtown Manhattan since it's easy for me to get around on my bike and I often fly over with FlyNYON. Since the Freedom Tower sticks out like a sore thumb, I'm constantly getting new perspectives on it...
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Photo Of The Week 52 - Island Hopping In NYC - New York, NY
I did it! One full year of posting a story about a photo every week! To celebrate, this weeks photo is of a view I have been quite familiar with over the past 20yrs or so...
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Photo Of The Week 46 - Bridging The Gap - New York, New York
There is obviously a TON of amazing cityscapes to see from the sky and most of them give you a different perspective on every day things. Seeing skyscrapers from above is one thing but seeing bridges and rivers is another. For whatever reason, you really get a sense of scale with these things over the typical jaw dropping Freedom Tower and Empire State Building...
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Photo Of The Week 45 - Downtown Street Photography - New York, New York
I'm taking a break from the air and am back on the ground now for this weeks photo of the week. I took advantage of a brief hour or so that I had to wander around downtown and almost forgot how much there is to photograph in this little area. Usually, photos are taken inside of the Oculus but it looks nearly as cool from the outside...
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Photo Of The Week 43 - Blue Hour Freedom Tower - New York, New York
I keep getting these purple tones from these Freedom Tower photos. I posted an older image a few weeks ago that was similar in tone and this quickly reminded me of that. We just missed the sunset on this flight so we caught the cityscape just in time for blue hour. Blue hour is easily one of the best times for a FlyNYON flight because even though you don't get the nice warm glow of the sunset, you have the dark ambient light balanced out by all the twinkling city lights turning on bellow. It's really something that's truly unique to any photo experience...
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Photo Of The Week 41 - Pulling Into New York - New York, NY
Photo Of The Week 33 - Handheld Long Exposures - New York, NY
There are a lot of arguments out there about mirrorless vs. DSLRs. Both systems have their pros and cons but there are certain features on my Sony A7 cameras that I wouldn't be able to live without if I switched back to DSLR...
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Alex Nunez - The King Of Queens
2 years ago today, myself along with the skating community lost a true friend. All over Facebook I kept seeing people from all over the world showing love for Alex Nunez and sending their condolences to his friends and family. The thing that struck me was how big of an impact Alex had on all these people's lives just from watching his skating. When I heard the news about his passing, I didn't think of how we lost a great skater, I thought of how the world lost such an amazing person. Most people didn't really know about Alex as a person, which gave me the motivation to make this little documentary on him.
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