Posts Tagged as: photography

February 26, 2020

How to identify fake photos of fake people

UPDATE: Thanks Petapixel for turning my thread into an article: How to Spot Fake Photos of Fake People Online I […]

December 20, 2019

Getting fancy with CSS’s Position Sticky

(PSSST, if you’re coming here from CSS Tricks, you might enjoy following me on Twitter for other fun and interesting […]

August 17, 2015

How to Make a Fillhouette

I discovered something pretty cool in Photoshop. If you select the inverse of a person’s silhouette and apply a “Content-Aware […]

May 5, 2015

One Week in One Minute

While most time-lapse videos show things moving, with this one I wanted to capture as little motion as possible. My […]

February 5, 2014

Upstairs Downstairs

Here’s the view from the elevator in my new building – from the basement and the first floor. Mesmerizing and […]

August 16, 2013

Queensboro Bridge Truck Fire Photos

Earlier today a truck burst into flames on the Queensboro bridge. Luckily nobody was injured. Fast forward to tonight while […]

July 10, 2013

Embedding an Instagram Photo

Hot off the presses. You can now embed an Instagram photo into any web page. Just browse to any Instagram […]

The New iPhone and 120FPS Slow Motion Video

Apple is apparently testing a slow motion video feature for its next iPhone. This Petapixel article includes an example video […]

June 30, 2013

How to Vine With No Hands

Whenever I see people using Vine with no hands, I assumed they were doing it with paperclips and sponges or […]

June 17, 2013

Face/On

This website looks amazing: thatsmyface.com. Apparently it can make a 3D model of your face based on photographs, then print […]

May 21, 2013

Sharing Photos From the New Flickr to WordPress

This is very cool. While browsing the new Flickr, I noticed a share button labeled “Share to WordPress – The […]

April 5, 2013

Listening to a Record from a Photograph

This blew my mind. Apparently it’s possible to use a photograph of a record and get an audible recording from […]

March 14, 2013

Barry Lyndon’s Opening Scene and the Golden Ratio

I re-watched “Barry Lyndon” last weekend and was reminded of how perfectly Stanley Kubrick framed his shots. The opening scene, […]

January 11, 2013

Sammy Sosa Flickr Tags

Recently on the web these’s been a flurry of news about Sammy Sosa’s Pinterest page. Most of the attention has […]

December 25, 2012

Comparing Canon’s 1Dc 4K Pixel Resolution

It looks like the camera pixel wars are evolving into the video front. Canon’s new 1Dc is aimed at pro […]

October 15, 2011

iPhone 4S and iPhone 3GS Camera Comparison

As someone who’s stuck it out with an iPhone 3GS for the past two years, my upgrade to the iPhone […]

June 3, 2011

One Week of WTC Construction Progress

Looks like they’re going for two floors every two weeks. Not too shabby.

May 27, 2011

World Trade Center Construction Update

Looks like more progress in the last two days…

May 25, 2011

1 World Trade Center Construction Progress

Since it’s official that Condé Nast is moving into 1 World Trade Center (formerly known as the Freedom Tower, formerly […]

November 7, 2010

Leo enjoying his Sunday

View the whole set on Flickr.

July 23, 2010

Pixel density comparison: iPhone 3 and iPhone 4

Clearly I’m not the first dude to weigh in here, but I wanted to get a real-world sense of the […]

October 27, 2009

Veive Cliquot Yellowboam

Roughly $2K worth of wine bling:

October 17, 2009

Dubai in LIC

After seeing this post at kottke.org I made this quick and dirty mockup below. The takeaway: it’s a tall fucking […]

September 8, 2009

Long Island City Fire

Long Island City is so hot right now.

August 23, 2009

City Slicker

Photos from a weekend in the Catskills, with a jaunt to the 123rd Delaware County Fair in Walton, NY.

June 13, 2009

All I wanna do is zooma zoom zoom zoom.

Let’s take a tour of what it might look like to peer through some of the world’s most powerful and […]

June 5, 2009

Empire State Building Photo

I snapped this out of the back window of Snooth’s new offices in midtown. I highly recommend checking out the […]

March 21, 2009

Boys and Girls

I just finished making an interactive version of the “Boys and Girls” installation mentioned in my previous post. Click the […]

Sanzone-Holloway Photos from M55 Art

For your viewing pleasure, here are some photos I took of artist Michael Sanzone‘s current exhibition at M55 Art in […]

March 6, 2009

Soho Photo

As seen in SoHo on my way to work two days ago. As a bizarre complement to this photograph, the […]

March 3, 2009

High Society, High ISO

I had a great time on Saturday night at Snooth’s Open That Bottle Night. I got to schmooze with some […]

February 20, 2009

Shooting Wine

One of the benefits of using a tripod and a manual camera setting for photographing wine bottles (which I often […]

February 17, 2009

Old-ass wines

Want to see me tasting wine from the 1800s? Check out the hot Snooth cross-blogging action…

December 29, 2008

Moving Van

The inside of a rental van. I’d say it’s moved its fair share of things with sharp edges over the […]

December 21, 2008

Life on Mars

I saw a filming of “Life on Mars” the other day while on my way to work. I snapped a […]

December 11, 2008

Lightroom in Overdrive

I’ve gotten pretty quick at blasting through a photoshoot in Lightroom to select my favorites, do some basic color correction, […]

November 22, 2008

Geeking out on Wine

Among the bevy of things I’ve learned while working Snooth, one that caught me off guard (even though it’s pretty […]

November 9, 2008

Personal Fail

November 8, 2008

Snooth’s Wine Friday Photos

Here’s another cross-post with the Snooth blog. I promise I’ll be adding more to this site in the near future, […]

November 1, 2008

Mount Everest Tilt-Shift

When I saw this satellite photo of Mount Everest, I couldn’t not put a tilt-shift effect on it. The result […]

October 16, 2008

I Showed Vincent DonOfrio My Balls

Any street photographer will tell you that one of the most difficult parts of photographing people is building up your […]

September 23, 2008

Shred This

I decided to bust out the ‘ol Canon 5D and 100mm macro lens tonight to take a photo of my […]

September 8, 2008

InTouch Party Photos

On Sunday night I was granted the opportunity to attend a glitzy Hollywood party, thanks to my girlfriend Anna who […]

August 22, 2008

Why don’t we do it in the road?

As the guy who designed the original NYC Condom, my heart sank this afternoon when I saw about a hundred […]

August 11, 2008

Canon 2X Extender Comparison

One of my favorite lenses, if not my absolute favorite, is the Canon 70-200 mm 2.8L IS. I also have […]

July 31, 2008

A pig’s eye!

Living in Chinatown has been fun so far. But having to watch the butcher deliver pig carcuses to the Chinese […]

July 13, 2008

Williamsburg’s Mercury Dry Cleaners burns down

As if the hipsters in Williamsburg weren’t dirty enough, one of the area’s largest laundrymats just burned down this morning. […]

July 12, 2008

Shooting for the sky

The Cleverest reader and photographer Salvatore points out that my recent shots of the Brooklyn sky looked manipulated, and that […]

July 8, 2008

DCF Advertising’s NYC Teen Mindspace Campaign

Yesterday marked the official launch of our teen-focused social marketing campaign for the NYC Department of Health. The campaign centers […]

July 1, 2008

The journey to and view from Manhattan’s Nelson Tower

I had a pretty exciting adventure yesterday afternoon. While taking pictures for an upcoming project I found myself at one […]

June 29, 2008

Is that a camera on your taxi or are you just happy to see me?

I wish I’d gotten a better picture of this, but on Saturday I saw a taxi with a digital camera […]

June 17, 2008

The Sky is Falling

Came home from work today and the sky scared the crap out of me.

June 8, 2008

Wiimbledon 208

Today I cheered my brother on as he took 4th place at Wiimbledon. Click on the photo above to see […]

March 14, 2008

“It” photos and DCF Advertising’s Homeless Campaign

As far as advertising photography is concerned, there are two main types that stand out for me. The first type […]

March 13, 2008

Homeless Campaign

It looks like the homeless awareness campaign we did at DCF advertising is finally being posted around the city. And […]

February 10, 2008

My Flickr Photos + Google Maps = Scrumptulescent Mashup

Thanks to this tutorial, I was able to combine some of my Flickr photos with a custom Google map, officially […]

February 9, 2008

Comparing Photoshop’s Lens Blur Filter to a Real Tilt-Shift Lens

By now, many of us are aware that you can replicate the characteristics of a tilt-shift lens with Photoshop. But […]

January 28, 2008

A River of Tears for Heath Ledger

While leaving work today I was slightly miffed to discover that the 6 train was out of commission due to […]

November 18, 2007

Apple Time Lapse

If you’ve ever wondered what 48 hours of apple rot looks like in ten seconds, look no further. And for […]

November 15, 2007

A Day in Brooklyn

Here’s a time-lapse video from the webcam today. One second from the video equals 15 minutes of real time.

October 21, 2007

Canon Powershot G9 and Canon 5D Comparison

Being somewhat of a photography nut, I recently set out to buy a second camera to carry around for those […]

October 19, 2007

Turd at Shea Stadium

Recently at a work-related shoot at Shea Stadium, I noticed something that seemed a little out of place in the […]

October 6, 2007

Brooklyn & Queens Photos from a Bike

Hopefully the knowledge that I almost died on multiple occasions taking the following photographs will make them that much more […]

November 6, 2006

Faces of the New York City Marathon

I took tons of photos at the marathon today. Click on the thumbnail to view the images large and help […]

June 19, 2006

Photos of a Burning Mercedes in New York City

It’s not every day that one gets to see a Mercedes on fire. But for me, Friday was that day. […]

March 7, 2006

Gabe Silva Art Gallery Showing

So the gallery opening went well last night. Comments on my photographic retrospective of Gabe Silva entitled “Cry Me A […]

January 6, 2006

Gabe Silva’s Lightning Testicles

January 3, 2006

Happy Holidays Light Drawings

Here’s to wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year! All the best,Gabe, Mike, and Mike

January 23, 2005

Before and After Snowstorm Photos

Photos from before and after a big snowstorm.

August 10, 2004

Washington Heights Fire

Tonight as I got off the subway I was greeted with thick black smoke, blazing sirens, and thousands of people […]

October 21, 2003

Tinkle Booze Cruise Photos

Here are the photos from the legendary Tinkle Booze Cruise Click here