Today I had a huge jump in visits to my Flickr page. 2513 views. A new record.

Images used in this Photosynth were taken 10.24.08 during my visit to NYC for PhotoPlus 2008.

First day of PhotoPlus Expo 2008. I attended two discussions. The first two hour session was on location lighting using hotshoe flashes by Joe McNally. He performed some lighting solutions with a live model. Most setups used one or two flashes. I was hoping he would perhaps get more into elaborate setups since he has published many works using in excess of 10 flashes. However, he demonstrated much more traditional portrait scenerios. The second two hour session was on the subject of Lighting & The Dramatic Portrait by Michael Grecco. Grecco projected his works and discussed how they were accomplished and also demonstrated how he has grown into his current style. Grecco wants to be known as ‘the Jacques Cousteau of the freaks in the world’ and made it very clear that he will be exploring sub-cultures in future works.

I walked the tradeshow a bit exploring the various vendors and put some product info in my bag to review. I did watch a fair amount of propaganda at the Canon booth. In fact I took the B&H shuttle from the conference to the B&H store and purchased a 16mm-35mm 2.8 lens. I hope to play with it in Times Square tonight.

San Francisco Pollution, originally uploaded by dollop.

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The picture above is a view I photographed down the street from where I live. Very sad to see the shore littered with tires. Nothing GREEN going on here. The photo below is a view via Google Maps if anyone is interested in the location.