Posted on December 11, 2013

I don’t know why, but this photo makes me feel as though there is something either dangerous or precious being guarded behind this scene. It’s a very interesting photo with the intense detail and contrast within the branches of the tree, and the subdued turquoise of the old street lamp.
I shot this in the evening light on a very cloudy day with a Carl Zeiss 135mm f2 APO Sonnar lens, and I don’t think any other lens could have pulled this much color and quality out an ordinary scene that was terribly washed out by the cloudy grey light of the day. This is straight out of the camera with no processing of any kind.
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Category: 135mm, abstract, ALL, Canon 5D Mark III, COLLECTIONS, color, details, earth tones, street photography Tagged: canon 5D mark III camera, photos by nicholas vendemia of vaperture, street photography new york, Zeiss 135mm f2 APO SONNAR lens
Posted on December 10, 2013

I’m amazed almost every day with the colors the sun throws into the sky on its way up in the morning, and I’m equally amazed at how many different sunrises there are! Some are aggressive and bold like unfiltered. Some are calm and expansive like creation. And some of are like a watercolor painting, like this one.
I took this with an 85mm Carl Zeiss lens with the aperture set to f/5.6.
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Category: 85mm, ALL, Canon 5D Mark III, cityscapes, COLLECTIONS, color, morning light, orange, sky, yellow Tagged: canon 5D mark III camera, classic photos of new york, new york photography, sunrise photos in new york, zeiss 85mm f1.4 lens