Sep 02 2010

A Series of Lasts

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'The Walls They Longed to See' ~ Outside of Eastern State Penitentiary

This is the last photograph of my Eastern State Penitentiary series.  I took this while waiting for everyone to arrive for a photographer meet-up.  It was a great day and I got to meet some good people, hope we can get together again sometime.   ESP sure does look much nicer on the outside.

Also, this is probably going to be one of the last photographs I’ll be posting that was taken with my Pentax K-7.   I have recently converted over a new system and picked-up the Nikon D700, which I absolutely love!

Lastly, this also will be my final posting for a week or so as I’m off to Portland, Oregon to be the best man at my brother’s wedding.  I’ve never traveled to Portland before so I’m taking some extra time to see the sights.

Have a great week everyone!  It’s time for me to start packing…

by CJ Kern

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Sep 01 2010

It’s Time to Change

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"Waiting for Everyone to Comeback" ~ Swartswood State Park, New Jersey

Well it’s September.  September is a time of year where everything changes; the kids are back to school, vacations are over, even the morning light looks different.  I personally enjoy change; it re-energizes me, even though it can be uncomfortable at times.  Without change I get stale, it is only when I accept change can I become a better person then I use to be.

At times I need to implement change in my photography.  When I do things the same way over and over I tend to look at the world the same way. When I mix it up and do things differently I see things that were right in front of me that I never noticed before.  Implementing and accepting change even helps me to break down stereotypes, modifying how I see the world and that new vision makes me a better photographer.

So, embrace the changes that are always occurring you can always remember the past by looking at some old photographs.

by CJ Kern

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Aug 31 2010

September 2010 Wallpaper

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Brooklyn Bridge Walkway

The September 2010 Desktop Wallpaper is Now Here! Thanks to all of you for the support you have given me and my photography. This month’s wallpaper is of the Brooklyn Bridge Walkway taken earlier this summer where I spent the day walking around NYC with now friend and fellow photographer Maurice Guerrieri.  Maurice is a very talented photographer living in Australia, you should checkout his work.

I have 2 versions available, large (2560 x 1702) and small (1280 x 851). To download the small wallpaper click on image above and then right click on the image to save it to your computer, to access the large wallpaper click here. Enjoy!

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Aug 30 2010

The Hole

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The Hole ~ Eastern State Penitentiary

Designed to punish prisoners, The Hole was dug under cell-block 14 where prisoners would have no light, no human contact, and little food for as long as two weeks.

I recently started to use the Beta version of Photomatix Pro and I must say I am very impressed, especially with the improvements made to noise reduction.  As part of a test I processed this image with the current production version and the noise that occurred in the shadows made this shot almost unusable.  I the processed it with the Beta version and all I can say is WOW, no noise issues at all.  Looks like the people at HDRsoft are putting together a very nice product; it will be good to see version 4 finally released to production.

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Aug 29 2010

In Your Own World

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My son Nick deep into a video game.

Hopefully we all have a passion; something that we can spend hours upon hours blissfully engaged in.  For my 13 year old son, it is video games, for me it is photography.  Whatever it is I hope you managed to take some time out this weekend to spend time in your own world and if you didn’t you owe it to yourself to do so soon.

Have a great week everyone.

by CJ Kern

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