Regarding Photography
"I want to reproduce the objects as they are, or as they would be even if I did not exist." --Taine [More quotes.]
Explanation
Bluejake is a photoblog run by me, Jake Dobkin, a photographer living in Brooklyn. It focuses mainly on urban landscape. Here's a short video from WNYC explaining a little bit about this project.
First Time Visitors
If it is your first time here, take a look around the blog; I post a new picture on the front page a few times each week. A summary of that work is available in six posts: best of 2003, best of 2004, best of 2005, best of 2006, best of 2007, and the best of 2008. Also check out the photoessays, which are photo projects with more than one picture. If you're still thirsty for more, check out the blog archives, which go back to February 2002. You could also check out the full list of entry tags. Finally, for the first few years I did the site, I also kept separate photo galleries for big events and trips-- you can find those in the old gallery section.
My Equipment
Canon SD950 and Canon D20 SLR. A Bogen Tracker 6' Tripod. 420EX flash. Canon EF USM lenses: 24mm and 35mm. I also toy with a film camera-- the Contax T2.
My Processing
In general, I follow this process in Photoshop: RAW processor, curves (sometimes with gradients), and unsharp mask.
Influences
I admire the urban landscape photographs of Eugene Atget, Berenice Abbot, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Joel Sternfeld, Edward Burtynsky, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. But if I could paint like Edward Hopper, I wouldn't photograph at all.
More About Jake
I have a number of other projects online-- you can find out more about them at the Jake Dobkin page.