New York, New York
A small technical side note. Living in a rural place, I don't often do night photography, so two long evenings on my recent weekend in NYC while teaching a platinum workshop offered a nice opportunity to explore the genre. The Lumix GF1 camera I was using has a back-of-the-camera LCD which I find useful for reviewing work, but nearly useless as a pointing device. More on that in future posts. It also has an accessory EVF (electronic viewfinder) which has terrible resolution but very precise framing (100% view). In strong sunlight it can be dark and murky, but in dim light it really, well, shines. In fact the view through the EVF is much brighter than what you see directly, making it much easier to frame the picture than it would be through the finder of a DSLR. It's also bright enough to fool you into thinking you will record more shadow detail than you really will, so as always it's important to use the finder just for frame-and-focus while working out the picture directly with the naked eye.
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