all the little people

beige walls

sky mosaics

burger bash

Last month Ben and I went to the New York Food and Wine Festival Burger Bash at the Tobacco Warehouse in DUMBO.


Eateries with burger entries included DuMont, Wollensky's Grill, Shake Shack, and Minetta Tavern.


And Chef Bobby Flay's Bobby's Burger Palace.


And the winner Spike Mendelsohn for Good Stuff Eatery. His "Prez Obama" burger had bacon, blue cheese and a side of milkshake.

Christine and Jean-Pierre

Today I had the pleasure of shooting Christine and Jean-Pierre getting married at City Hall. After the ceremony I took a few shots of them outside.


Christine's bouquet of purple orchids was gorgeous!

braddock, pennsylvania

These are some photographs I took last year in Braddock, a town just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

When industry fled the Rust Belt, no town was left in worse shape than Braddock. As jobs left the town, so did its inhabitants. Over the past 60 years, Braddock shrunk from 15,0000 residents to just 2,912 — 35% of them earning less than $13,000 a year, according to the 2000 census.

Today, despite the work of an ambitious mayor, there is little local economy, few jobs, and in the lower part of town, more abandoned homes than occupied ones.







There is a pretty solid video on the New York Times website about Braddock. Their photographer shot some of the same condemned houses that I did.



I'm planning a trip back to Western PA and I hope to photograph Braddock again.

minolta autocord street photography

As promised, here is a candid street shot taken with the TLR!



He was seated under the overpass at the 9th Street stop in Park Slope, waiting for the rain to clear.

first shots...

Last weekend we fired off some shots with our newly acquired TLR. We blew through two rolls of Portra 160VC 120mm film. Here are some highlights:







Check back soon to see how we did with street photography using the autocord!

i love ebay...

same place twice

A couple of weeks back we brought our film cameras to some locations in North Brooklyn that we shot digitally last year. Very different results:



portra 160nc


digital


portra 160nc


digital

Boogie in Brooklyn

Guess who else is shooting Brooklyn?

The legendary Belgrade-born street photographer Boogie.


Boogie, Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, 2004. Lens.

Profiled in a piece on the Lens blog on Tuesday, Boogie — who currently lives in Greenpoint — described his approach to photography, his attraction to "real" subjects, and his daily ritual of wandering and shooting.

“If I left my house without my camera, my heart would probably start pounding and I would get all tense,” he told the Times. “That thought freaks me out. I wouldn’t be able to take it.

According to the article, he's just started shooting in color this year. I can't wait to see the results.

For more on Boogie, check his daily photoblog.


Boogie, Belgrade, Serbia, 1997. Lens.

with friends like these...

...who needs models?









We used a simple two-flash set-up and tried out our new reflector and 85mm f/1.8 lens!

David Goldblatt at the New Museum

"Incomplete houses, part of a stalled municipal development of 1000 houses."

We just went to the David Goldblatt exhibit at the New Museum. It's certainly worth a visit.

Goldblatt is a South African photographer who has documented his country since the era of apartheid.

The exhibit showcased a good number of his earlier black and white photographs, but his color landscapes were the highlight. Crystal clear focus, minimalist compositions, and muted colors. It really made me want to forget that I ever learned what the word "bokeh" means.

The show is up until Oct. 11, and it's free on Thursdays.


"Remains of long-drop lavatories at Frankfort in the former Ciskei bantustan."

happy birthday ben!

It's Ben's birthday today!

Also in today's photography news, Canon unveils the EOS 7D.

• 18-megapixels
• aps-c, crop-frame sensor
• 3-inch LCD
• 19-point autofocus
• 8 frames per second
  
• HD video recording
• $1,699 retail for body only

New website!

Here's the link: shootingbrooklyn.com

One excuse for our lengthy absence was our inability to get a website together.

We've wanted to create a dedicated site for our work for a while, but knowing as little as we do about web design (htm..what?), we hired the wonderful Jacqueline, of JAMILA productions, to do all the work for us.

Even with all her help, we spent a long time trying to figure out how to organize our shots into portfolios. It left us asking ourselves all kinds of photo-philosophical questions. Is a photo taken on the street an example of "street photography" if the subject knows you are taking his or her picture? Can a "studio" shot be taken outside of a studio?

Eventually we settled on a model that we think works, but we'd love to hear some suggestions!

We're back!

Please pardon our absence.

After a few months of posting a photo a day — and a few months of posting nothing — we're back.

Starting now, we'll regularly post photos and some words (gasp!). Expect lots of images, commentary, and links.

You can always revisit all 397 images from our photo-a-day-project in our archives.

Cheers!

Katie and Ben