BusinessWeek – Kim Matheson

Another BusinessWeek shoot I did months ago finally showed up in the mail. They only publish this magazine every 8 weeks so I expected it to take awhile. The one they chose wasn’t my favorite shot of the bunch, however did they use it double spread which is exciting!  My choice from the selects is also below. Read More

POZ Magazine – Luz

September’s POZ magazine has been released, containing a some pictures I took of an HIV positive mother named Luz de Jesus Roman.  We had two sittings together, one last year while she was pregnant and then another a while back with the baby.  Probably the longest photo lead time I’ll ever deal with. The ones against the the grey were taken in Luz’ kitchen in the Bronx.  5′ wide seamless taped to the wall, and one large octabox crammed into… Read More

Film or Digital? Is this really still a question?

I could have sworn that I’d written a blog post about this topic, but I did a scan through my archives and came up empty, so here I go.  A few weeks ago while I was shooting futurist Ray Kurzweil, he asked me the question that most non-photographers end up asking me.  “Is that film or digital”.  And it surprises me that this is still in active rotation.  Maybe they ask it because it’s topical and they don’t know what else to say,… Read More

Dexter

A few shots of author Dexter Palmer taken on a west side pier. Read More

Why I shoot RAW

Here’s a great example of why shooting RAW is a good idea. Yesterday a magazine requested the image on the left.  It was very bright and in the middle of the afternoon with the sun to her back (this was an incidental test shot they really liked for some reason).  As it was, it wasn’t up to my standards and had I shot jpeg, there would be very little that could have been done about it.  Look how blown out the sky is, and how dark she is. How day-glow… Read More

BusinessWeek – John Borthwick

My portrait of real-time web investor John Borthwick is in today’s BusinessWeek.Thanks to Josh Gerritsen for the assist.   Read More

Coney Island

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Corona Park

Took a walk through Corona Park in Queens yesterday. Man that globe is big! Read More