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#monochrome #blackandwhite #fisheye #river #water #weir #sluice #trees #clouds #nature #stone #weirwednesday #Day56 #3652026 #project365

Water dripping from melting ice on the steps of Cathedral of St. John the Divine, this Tuesday. That snow was almost gone on Wednesday when it rained. #nyc #snow #winter #droplet #melting #architecture #photography #macro #darktable #fisheye

Winter der Vorstadt.

Another day, and another long exposure, this time using my 8mm fisheye lens with a solar filter (supposed to provide about 16 to 20 stops). The total exposure here is about 1 hour and 10 minutes.
The shot was rectified manually (thanks to the vertical lines!). It seems such filters are not optimized to render colors correctly after all, but still, I tried to use that with tone-splitting. The sun is still harsh here, but oh well, I can't remove such an element (maybe I should try again but around sunset time). Note that the street down there was somewhat busy but with such a field of view and such time, nothing is recorded (specially during the day rather than night).

#urban #suburban #balcony #longexposure #LE #long_exposure #fisheye #solar #goodmorning

Onboard the vintage R32 subway train during the excursion #nyc #subway #trains #railroadmuseum #fisheye #photography #darktable

Sleepless Night

Now, I've finished with the stroll, and I was going to post something from the "monkey panorama" series that I've stopped abruptly to post about that stroll series of January 27th, but I thought that I can do that later. I'm going to slip this one shot done on the January 31st. As the title suggests, it was a sleepless night (as usual).
Now, nothing special about this long exposure shot and actually I was disappointed, as I thought I'd get more lines or action in the frame. However, it was a good experimental piece for me because it is the first time I "rectify" a fisheye shot manually.
Long ago, I would rectify fisheye shots using some programs. Anyway, now, I've started doing the job manually (which takes time and effort really), and seems I've finally done it!
Rectification of a fisheye image usually results in stretched images, typically shifting the aspect ratio of the image beyond the usual 3:2 ratio of APS-C sensors (for Canon at least; not sure about other brands). The aspect ratio here for this shot after rectification is somewhat close to 16:9.
The shot was taken with Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens (one of my favorites); a completely manual lens. The lens was attached to a modified camera (for full spectrum) and I've placed an infrared gel filter on its back (improvisation, since it has no rear-filter holder or anything). I don't have any big stopper ND filters in gel format, so I thought this filter would do the job to lengthen the exposure at night, and so it did, expanding the exposure time to about 1 hour and 15 minutes. The noise, of course, is problematic and I didn't even try to touch it, because removing it would make the image smudgy. Anyway, for a trial, it doesn't matter I guess. I'm just happy about the rectification itself that I can't be bothered about the noise!

#longexposure #long_exposure #LE #night #sleepless #IR #infrared #fisheye #rectification #rectify #balcony #surreal #surrealism #urban #suburban #goodmorning

From the backlog: November 8, 2025, I did the NY Transit Museum's nostalgia ride. Basically the museum runs a vintage train from its collection on a route relevant to the vintage train of interest. This time it was an R32 J train, and it ran on the J train's route to East New York. NYC subway trains do have conductors in addition to train operators, but they normally don't wear the conductor hat. #nyc #subway #railroadmuseum #trains #vintage #railfan #portrait #photography #darktable #fisheye

Fulton St subway station #nyc #trainstation #subwaystation #architecture #fisheye #streetphotography #darktable

I took Molly Mac to the woods yesterday to play in the fluffy snow. I took my Fish-eye lens as well as my 18-60. While I mostly used the latter I did play with the fish-eye some.
#Pentax #fisheye #winter