Photo Fix of the Day

​Here's a photo I took at a local farm this past week. The skies were dramatic all day and at one point I spun around to see these intense rays of sunlight pouring through the clouds. When I first processed the photo the juvenile apple trees in the foreground were very dark so I brought up their exposure quite a bit. I added some clarity to the clouds but other than that I didn't do much. 

How would you improve this photo? I thought maybe some cropping would have been in order but I opted not to. What do you think?​

I shot this with a Sony NEX-7 using the kit lens at 21mm, f/8, ISO 100.​

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Photo of the Day

It was a surprisingly hot first day of Fall when we decided to go apple picking.  I shot this photo as we were making our way into a massive New Jersey farm. ​They had a hay bail climbing area that didn't seem all that safe to me but the kids seemed to love it.

I like this photo because there's a 1950's-style farm land feeling for me. Something about the threatening sky, the dusty need for rain, and the kids that would joyfully stand out there in a lightning storm just so they could keep playing.

I shot this with a Sony NEX-7 using the kit lens with ISO 100 and f/22.​ What do you think? How would you improve it?

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Constructive Criticism Photo of the Day and Happy Birthday to My Wife

It's that time of year again! Time to celebrate my wife's birthday. I thought I'd snap some pictures of her blowing out some candles with my Sony Nex 7. I would really love some criticism of this photo because I know how incredibly hard these types of photos can be. I shot this at ISO 1600 at 18mm and f /3.5. What would you have done?

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​My wife Natali on her birthday. 

Constructive Criticism Photo of the Day

his morning I was ran over to Central Park before sunrise and snapped a few photos. I was using the Sony NEX 7. It was a really hazy morning. I think I got there a little too late for the best light. It might have been a generally poor day to shoot.

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unrise in Central Park

Constructive Criticism Photo of the Day

Last week I spent some time in Central Park with the great photographer Trey Ratcliff. We were shooting a piece on the basics of photography. At one point Trey wandered, as he is good at doing, over to a group of painters who were painting random park settings. We both shot the same scenes. I was about to say that we both shot the same photos but that would be a lie. What do you think? Constructive criticism welcome.

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ainter in Central Park

Constructive Criticism Photo of the Day

Last night my wife and I had a rare date night. We went to one of our favorite restaurants in Hawley, PA. The room at the Inn is so warm and inviting so I tried to capture some of that lighting. I shot three photos and later ran them through Photomatix Pro to get this HDR.

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Settler's Inn, Hawley P