Ed Medina Photo & Media

05/18/2022

A little family scene from my morning walk. Mama goose was not real happy with me, but we got out of her way asap.

03/26/2022

Scenes from today’s Natchaug Epic 2022 Recon Ride, which was hosted by Putnam Cyclery in Putnam, CT. It was fun working this gathering, and I’m getting excited for tomorrow’s main event at Thompson, CT.

11/24/2021

My mother loved calendars. I used to give her one for Christmas every holiday, and she always asked for a New England calendar every year whenever I asked her what she wanted. Maybe she just liked thinking of me in Boston when she looked at the scenes of the city or the coast. Or maybe she just liked the photos and artwork and she could imagine herself in another place. Anyway, I always enjoyed her delight in receiving a simple calendar for the new year to come.

Last year I created a 2021 calendar with this very image, and it hung on the wall by her desk in her art room during her last months.

So it is bittersweet that I offer this calendar — updated for 2022 — as a holiday gift this year. I made it in honor of my late mother, Jill Medina. All proceeds will benefit the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - Eastern Pennsylvania & Delaware , so your purchase will help research into all types of blood cancer.

This image itself was created last year as a triple-exposure HDR from a spectacular vantage point downtown with a view of the Custom House (clock tower to the right), the historic North End in the background to the left, and Boston Harbor behind it all. I enhanced the sky to create an even more dramatic sunset.

The calendar (as well as a clean image without graphics) is available in a variety of ready-to-hang formats that I chose specifically to make nice gifts, and it is also available as a download as well as various commercial licensing options.

I knew this scene would make a great calendar for mom the moment I saw it, and it was my way of sharing my too-far-away life with her. Now I share it with you.

This Boston-themed calendar has been made in the memory of my mother, Jill Medina, who kept a framed copy of this image in her art studio. It features a recent sunset aerial view of downtown Boston with the city's North End and harbor in the background, and the Custom House and Faneuil Hall in the f...

11/15/2021

Welcome to Monday, everyone!
Here are some photos from a basement apartment that was bright and beautiful. The owners of this 1 BR condominium in the South End of Boston staged this space themselves, and the light decor and open floorpan made the space seem brighter and larger than its square footage would suggest.
In a smaller room with few walls, my visual goal here was to divide the space into smaller nooks in order to create a variety of images. Punching into 21 mm helped exclude certain details around the edges, and lowering the tripod to furniture level sets the POV at the height of a person sitting. I used a longer exposure in order to preserve the highest resolution at ISO 100, and my Manfrotto tripod was required at that speed.
This image was created with triple-exposure, 3-stop HDR RAW images, shot with a Canon EOS R and my standard 17-24 wide angle lens, aperture priority: ISO 100 | 17-21 mm | f/8.0 | 1/20 sec.
These HDR's were merged in Adobe Lightroom and lightly processed, mostly to boost the exposure.
Cheers! 🤘

11/11/2021

An aerial view of the Custom House with Boston Harbor in the background. This photo was shot last fall through the window of a downtown building.
This image was created with triple-exposure HDR RAW images, shot with a Canon EOS R and my standard 17-24 wide angle lens: ISO 100 | 17 mm | f/8.0 | 1/250 sec.
These HDR's were spaced at 3 stops, and they were merged in Adobe Lightroom and lightly processed. The sky is natural.

11/09/2021

These are exterior photos of a building in the Seaport at Pier 4, near the ICA. I’m posting these as an announcement of my new portfolio website — EdMedinaPhotos.com
I shot these photos on a Canon R, with an EOS 17-24 wide-angle lens, f/5.6 | ISO 2000. This part of a big, recent project in the city, and I shot handheld for efficiency (1/500 sec to counter shake). Yet the colors developed rich in RAW format, even though the ISO was cranked a little too high to capture dusk lighting. Sky was enhanced in and . I also like how the angles of this building belie vertical lines, and I really had to use my camera’s leveling meters to get it right.