The Visuals: Long Live the King of Pop

, by Ian Park,

Friday was exactly one year after Michael Jackson’s death. My friend and I figured there would be something going on in the streets of New York City, and sure enough, there was music and dancing right outside of the Apollo theatre in Harlem. More pictures after the jump!

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Even little kids got in on the action! As you can tell, the left shoulder of this kid’s shirt is “blown out,” meaning that this spot is too bright to have any highlight detail and is effectively just white. If you shoot in RAW (or NEF in Nikon language) format, the information from the sensor is not processed nor is it compressed, letting you use that saved info to edit the picture. So, if you shoot in RAW, you get a lot more leeway in post-processing. In this case, I shot in JPEG and I was not able to recover the highlight-details because it was thrown out by the camera.

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And the glove seems to give this guy some awesome air guitar skills.

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If you’ve got any shots of MJ celebration, send them over to me (ipark@wesleyan.edu) and we’ll post them up!

  • D//

    interesting, please write more about phtography, please, im getting tired of the soccer.

  • Patricia Clarke

    I am one of the millions who eel the void of a world without Michael. I grew up with Michael, he has been a huge part of my life, from spreading the love to learning how todo his moves. I remember many years ago, my sister got upset with me because the moves came easier to me than to her. I was so proud. I read and watch everything related to his gifts he gave us all, I do this to stay close. I don’t want to let him go……..

  • Ian Park

    D//: Thanks for your support, I’ll try to find more time to do more posts!

    Patricia: Thanks for sharing your story here. Sounds like Michael will never really leave you as long as you’ve got those memories.

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