Tree Silhouette

I took this picture last week in the park by my apartment in New Brunswick.  I took a few different pictures of this tree but I liked the editing on this one the best because I was able to really bring out the blues of the sky, create a strong silhouette of the tree and have a sharp horizon line in the background.

Arcade - Seaside, New Jersey

Here is another photo from my walk through Seaside.  I saw Lucky Leo’s Arcade, a favorite of mine as a kid, and knew that it would translate well to black and white because of the contrast between the white and dark paint.  I threw on my wide angle lens because I did not have a lot of space to get the picture unless I wanted telephone poles and parked cars to ruin the shot.  Using the wide angle lens also increases the feeling of actually being there by creating more perspective in the picture.

Winter Pool

Took this photo a few weeks ago in Seaside Heights, NJ.  When I took the image I knew I wanted it to be a black and white and focus on having a strong contrast between the shadows and the light.  It came out interesting as a black and white because even though it was bright out, the sky had a strong overcast which made it look like dark storm clouds in this picture.

Seaside Boardwalk Kid - New Jersey

This is another photo I took at Seaside.  As previously mentioned, it was a very foggy day at the board walk, but I was lucky enough for a few moments of sun to capture this image where the kid was framed right in the light.  Unfortunately I was further away than I would have like to of been and had to crop the image to get the composition I wanted.  I also only had moments to get the image so I did not have enough time to adjust my settings and get less detail on the background to put emphasis on the kid.

Seaside Boardwalk - New Jersey

I took this photo on Sunday, which was a beautiful day and I thought it would be great to shoot at the beach on such a nice day.  All the way down the parkway the weather was great until I approached the bridge to crossover into Seaside, there was just this incredibly dense fog covering the entire town.  I have never shot in fog before, so it created a very interesting shooting situation.  The lighting and the fog created a lot of very high key images which I haven’t work with before.

Orange Sunset

I took this picture in South Amboy, NJ by a concert venue, called Club Krome, that I used to go to a lot in high school and college, and even played a few shows at in my band at the time, until it was shut down.  It has been years since I have been back to this spot, and it was nice returning and having some of those memories return to me.

Very little editing was done to this image, it is pretty similar to how it looked come out of the camera, I just increased the black levels to make them thicker and enhanced the oranges to make the image pop a bit more.  I have a few different versions of this image and I think this was the strongest.  I plan on coming back and doing this again because I wanted the sun a little higher in the sky so it is framed better by the tree, and I want to find a better view point that will allow me to place the tree in the left third of the image with the negative space on the right.  At the location I was at there was a tree directly to my right coming into frame that took away from the image.

Took this photo at a local park with a playground a few days ago.  I do not really have much to say about this one. Did some editing to fix the blue hue that was originally in the photo, brought up the blacks and contrast, desaturated the colors and then brought up the yellows to make the cat really pop out.