Pier A Harbor House
2015
I’m pretty sure I was in this area for a birthday party, and I got there early, so I wandered around and shot these.
2016 was very early in my “Shoot everything everywhere” Neighborhood Guides project for Nooklyn. Having such a project pushed me to become a better photographer. I recommend you do something similar, set yourself a project that’s open, that you can iterate on, that gives you an impetous to look everywhere for images to add, and add to it constantly.
It’s too bad I didn’t add all these to my website over all those years, but hey, better late than never.
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Oops, Revision! A friend checked in about this, and I checked the EXIF data closer. September 17th 2015. So this was before I even started at Nooklyn. This is why you should keep a journal, people.
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In those early days, I had a tendency toward over exposure, because bright was the winning look on Instagram. But you can see with the two exposures of the clock tower that I was interested in protecting my highlights, which eventually became a huge focus with every images.
It’s very, very rare now that I let any part of my image be over exposed, but I do try to push back against that tendency by trying to selectively say “it’s okay, this part can be blown out.”
There are no rules.