Black and White Only: August 2010

Sunday, August 29, 2010

It's All About Eye Contact!

My favorite shot taken at the Latin Music concert at NJPAC in Newark, NJ
I just love the intense expression on the boy's face....if only I'd brought my Nikon D80 instead of just the Fuj P&S with a 3X zoom!

Sounds of the City

Latin Music Concert at the New Jersey Performing Center (NJPAC), Newark, NJ

Labels: Collage, Dance, New Jersey, Newark, NJPAC

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Story of a Street Shot Session

Monday, August 16, 2010

So Beautiful - So True - So Sad!

The Garden from Jason Stefaniak on Vimeo.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Art Deco Detail - The New Yorker

It Ain't Easy Being Bresson!

During the lunch break from the Tamron Photography Workshop at the New Yorker hotel I took a walk down 34th Street in the drizzly rain. Still under the influence (of Henri Cartier-Bresson, that is), I tried to get some candid street shots. First, I acted like I was focusing on the Swarovski storefront; then I got the back and profile shots, but just as I was circling to get to the portrait shot of these two tourists? students?, I got busted by one of them! Taken by surprise, the shot is slightly out of focus on the subject.

I didn't want to carry my usual zoom, so I had only the Nikon 50mm 1.4 fixed lens on the camera. I can see I need more practice with this lens.

Since I can't zoom, I had to walk away or towards my subject...a lot harder to be sneaky and unnoticed.

Labels: black and white, Henri Cartier-Bresson, new york, Street Photography

Black & White In Music

How did these music videos end up on my "Black and White Only" blog?? Well, think about the notes on a sheet of music! Now that I've gotten that out of my system, it's back to B&W Photos.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Leonard Cohen - The Letters

Just watched a Netflix Indie movie "Land of Plenty" and this song at the end of the credits really got to me. It's here because it seems to be "Black and White"