The litter in littérateur. Ricky Opaterny on Books, Music, Art, and Sports

12/30/2010

My year in photos

Filed under: General,Photography — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Ricky @ 7:01 pm

This was the first year of my life that I documented more with my photography than with my writing, especially if that whole picture = 1,000 words equation is true. Here are some of the things I saw in 2010, arranged, more or less, chronologically. For those of you who are curious about gear, I took most of the shots with a Leica M7, Leica M8, or Panasonic GF1.

12/23/2010

Using HDR Efex Pro for the first time

Filed under: General,Photography — Ricky @ 7:40 pm

I use Nik’s Color Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro quite a bit for post processing my photos, so I felt compelled to try out their new HDR software. Unfortunately, I don’t have exposure-bracketed shots that I took with the intention of making an HDR image. So, I took a couple photos I had from a hike to Mount Misery last month and put them into HDR Efex to see what it could make of them. The conditions under which I shot these photos were not ideal—I handheld them and took my rangefinder camera away from my eye to adjust the shutter speed in between shots—but the result from only two shots is not disappointing. See below for the HDR image and the original two photos that HDR Efex combined to make it.


12/5/2010

You don’t need a shrink if you have Proust

Filed under: Books,General — Ricky @ 2:09 pm

Claudia Gonson of the Magnetic Fields recounts her life as a reader and academic over at the NYRBlog.

12/3/2010

Because the Night

Filed under: General,Music — Ricky @ 1:35 pm

All these years, I’ve assumed that Patti Smith wrote “Because the Night”—that is, until I was listening to Springsteen’s The Promise, yesterday. It turns out that Bruce started writing the song, and Smith finished it.

 

12/1/2010

Joel Meyerowitz on revisiting Ground Zero with the Leica S2

Filed under: General,Photography — Ricky @ 7:08 pm

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz discusses returning to Ground Zero with the Leica S2 in a video from TIME’s website.

 

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