Mihai Topoleanu Photography blog

Spring finally came to New York, and yes, that’s not really news, but I got a serious cold that made me drink cold medicine like water. Definitely not pleasant, but hey, I didn’t catch a cold all winter, so that’s a win. Anyway, been away from the blog for a little while, thanks to the cold, but I now have couple of ideas worth sharing.

This past Sunday, I took a visit to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. The place was packed with people and flowers (d’oh!! spring finally came), and I took the 60mm macro, the 17-55mm, 85mm and 135mm lenses with me, along with the flash, camera,  memory cards and cold medicine.

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I left my office on Tuesday afternoon, completely oblivious of what was going on the street. I came out of my office building to see many fire engines, news vans, ambulances, firefighters and paramedics. I found out that there were some manhole explosions earlier, and basement fires that affected several building on Broadway between W51st and W53rd streets.

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You saw the PS5 content aware fill video, and the PatchMatch video I recently posted . As I was doing my blogs/news reading today, I came across a video, offering a sneak peak into a new feature of PS5 called “Puppet Warp” – which can be very useful for quite a few things – one thing that comes to mind is slightly changing a pose to transform a regular looking portrait into something special (without abusing the feature though). Click on Read More to see the video. (continue reading…)

This past Sunday, Terry and me organized a new photoshoot, this time going for a Beauty/Fashion/Bridal look to showcase her make-up skills. This time, we had three beautiful girls that acted as models  - Anna, Mila, Susan and the fourth was Terry herself, who enjoyed the last session so much that she wanted an encore.

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