Karsten Moran Photography http://www.karstenmoran.net/blog Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:38:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Master Illusionist http://www.karstenmoran.net/blog/2011/05/14/master-illusionist/ http://www.karstenmoran.net/blog/2011/05/14/master-illusionist/#comments Sat, 14 May 2011 21:03:31 +0000 admin http://www.karstenmoran.net/blog/?p=772 (Karsten Moran)

I had the pleasure of photographing Elliot Zimet for our Focus On section earlier this year. Eliot is one of the few working magicians who maintains a full-fledged bird act, a feat in itself, which requires not only superb magic skills, but also an incredible amount of care and devotion invested in his birds.

Above is the full spread. Read the article HERE, or check out Elliot’s website HERE to catch his act.

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The video (you can watch it by CLICKING HERE) is fantastic, because it highlights a couple things I think a lot of people take for granted about photojournalism.

>  First, it demonstrates just how much time and effort goes into making what will eventually be one picture in the paper.

>  Second, it demonstrates the level of tenacity required to make relevant images. Not only does Perry diplomatically and carefully sidestep being ‘booted,’ he keeps pushing. He isn’t snapping pictures. During the entire video, he keeps working toward making the best possible image he can muster.

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It’s been a busy, but rewarding past few weeks. Some highlights included the Concert for Japan (click here for article) at the Japan Society, which featured Lour Reed, Philip Glass, the J-pop group Salmé (first photo) and Sadahiro Kakitani (second photo);  the Tallis scholars at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin (third and fourth photos); Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter at PS122 (fifth pic); and the JACK quartet at Le Poisson Rouge (final frame).

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A couple outtakes from an assignment (David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony at Carnegie Hall) I shot earlier this month.

I’ve been in over a dozen performance venues in the city, but from a photographer’s perspective, nothing compares to the Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. The world famous concert space is impressive not only aesthetically, but in that it seems to have been designed, or at least retrofitted, to accommodate photographers a bit better than most.

Check out more on the venue at the Carnegie Hall website, or go see it for yourself : http://www.carnegiehall.org/SiteCode/Events/MonthCalendar.aspx In May, Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida will be performing.

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February 3, 2011 – Brooklyn, NY : Protesters, including students, teachers, union activists and elected officials, came out in great numbers to oppose the shuttering of 12 New York City schools at a Panel for Education Policy meeting held at Brooklyn Technical High School in Ft. Greene on Feb. 3.

The noise at the Feb. 3 PEP meeting, at which they decided to phase out twelve New York City public schools (including John F. Kennedy in the Bronx), was earsplitting. Outside, politicians and union officials’ voices bellowed over loudspeakers and megaphones. Inside, the roar of a discontented populous (first photo) delayed, and then drowned out, the opening remarks by newly appointed schools chancellor Cathie Black (second picture).

Read the article, HERE.

Technical info
camera: Nikon D700 / iso: 3200 / 14mm / mode: A -0.33 / f-stop: 2.8 / exposue: 1*125th

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I had the pleasure of attending the New York Community Media Alliance Ippies Journalism Awards dinner this past week. The event, which took place on a boat and was EMCEE’d by WNYC’s  Bob Hennelly, served to honor outstanding work by the ethnic and community press.

My pictures and layout for a feature on a local barber shop (accompanied by an excellent article by reporter Adam Wisnieski — thank you Adam) took home top honors in the photo essay category.

The full article is available HERE. To learn more about the NYCMA and IPPIES, click HERE.

**UPDATE** The SNA just announced its annual editorial contest winners HERE and they selected the same photo essay (above) as their #1 pic for Best Photojournalism in the 8,001-16,000 non-daily category. Press reporter Adam Wisnieski also won a first place award–which I contributed reporting to–for spot news coverage of the Riverdale Tornado.

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January 28, 2011 – Tuckahoe, NY : The Riverdale and Horace Mann squash teams faced off against each other on Jan. 28.  Riverdale came away with a 4-3 win, defeating the Lions for the second time this season. Above, Riverdale’s Aaron Horowitz, front, competes against Horace Mann senior Josh Goodstein.

Our sport editor, Raphael Sugarman, knows how much I enjoy photographing sports that fall at the fringes of the normal high school athletics curriculum. So I was more than happy to make the trek up to Tuckahoe in Westchester county to shoot the Horace Mann and Riverdale Squash teams. (ARTICLE)

I find that using a rubber lens hood allows me to get up close and personal with the players–and literally press the front of the lens against the glass, without worrying about reflections or scratches to the wall.

Technical info
camera: Nikon D700 / iso: 3200 / 20mm / mode: M / f-stop: 4.0 / exposue: 1*500th

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I photographed classical guitarists Eliot Fisk and Zaira Meneses for the New York Times at the 92nd Street Y on January 5. An image ran in the arts section and subsequently made The Week in Culture Pictures slideshow. The clip, as well as a few outtakes, are above.

Check out the full story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/arts/music/07fisk.html

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January 21, 2011 – Bronx and Manhattan, NY : Five-oh officers Flick, left, and McCoy patrol the Marble Hill houses on a frigid late-January night.

The 50th precinct beefed up their presence in certain areas surrounding Riverdale recently and were kind enough to let me tag along on a night patrol.

I have the utmost respect and appreciation for these guys. What they do is tedious, thankless and often dangerous.

Technical info
camera: Nikon D700 / iso: 3200 / 24mm / mode: M -.33 / f-stop: 4.0 / exposue: 1*40th

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January 25, 2011 – Bronx, NY : A man enjoys a morning jog through the snow in Van Cortlandt Park on Tuesday morning… and other snowy scenes.

We got some big, fat photogenic flakes at the end of last month and I took the opportunity to wander through Van Cortlandt Park and make some photographs.

As a side note, I don’t know what I did before I got an Aquatech Sports Shield. Nothing else i’ve tried even comes close.

Technical info
camera: Nikon D700 / iso: 400 / 300mm / mode: AE -.33 / f-stop: 2.8 / exposue: 1*1250th

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