Radio City Music Hall (lesson learned)

I included this photo not because it is such a great photo. It's actually a pretty bad one. Look at the edges; unsharp. While in the middle it is sharp. There is a story behind this.

 

Before I left for New York a new Tamron lens had come out, on which I had set my eye. But in The Netherlands the lens was not available yet. So, my idea was to purchase it in New York at the famous B&H Photo New York Store. But unfortunately the lens had already sold out. I looked around for other photo stores. And I guess because the disappointment of not been able to buy the wanted lens at B&H I had my guard down. And in this sleezy store I let myself talk into buying a wide angle lens, of poor poor build quality. I took some photos, and reviewing them on my camera screen they seemed to turn out good. If only I had the ability to see them on a larger screen. I would have thrown it away immediately, take my loss and never to use it anymore. Instead, I walked around and took many (!) photos with it.

 

Back home again I got to take a proper look at the photos I had taken. I was shocked. Shocked, angry and sad. So many photos were ruined. Almost all photos of the Flat Iron building, at Top of the Rock on Rockefeller Center, the Empire State building, in Central Park, in Harlem.

 

Lesson learned!

 

Taken by: Emiel Dekker (emield.myportfolio.com/)

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