This NY Life

This past Christmas, I received a gift from my wife… a class at the International Center of Photography called New York at Twilight. My last class was a few weeks ago and I just wanted to share some thoughts.

This was my first class at ICP and I definitely plan on taking more. There were five sessions, two of which we met at ICP, three we went out and shot. The first class we shot a bit too in Times Square. Everyone who attended had a different reason for being there and there were people of varying skills and ages. Everyone with the exception of one person was using a SLR. Two people were using film, the rest of us were digital. The one person not using a SLR was using the Canon G7, which has the ability to shoot manually, however, does not shoot in RAW format, which seemed to be the preferred format. Our shooting locations were Times Square, DUMBO, Madison Square, Smith Street/Brooklyn.

The only issue with the class is that it was only 5 weeks long. Everyone just seemed to be getting into a stride when it was all over. The last class was spent discussing our final images, why we picked them, etc.

Here are the 19 pictures, of 400 or so, I took and liked the best: NY at Twilight