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My new Assistant

My new Assistant
This weekend I tried to take some staged photos of Quinn, but he’s at that age where it’s not like he’s going to sit at his spot for very long. I gave up pretty quick – didn’t really have much time to adjust lighting for his shiny head – so we just “wung it” and had fun anyways.

For anyone interested, he’s lit from the front by a shoot through umbrella with a 580exII at about 1/4 power and (in frame) a Lumiquest Softbox III. There’s a blue-gelled 430ex to camera right at 1/16th to whiten the background or something but you can just barely make that out.

Budding

Budding
Oh, if only! It’s not spring yet, and Ottawa’s got a lot more snow to get itself buried under before we’re done (Yesterday’s a good example).

P.S. this is a good thing, my goal is to take a nice photo of a big white snowflake before the season is done – I was just agoraphobic yesterday.

Forty Three

Forty Three
The picture LOOKS crooked, but it’s not. The house is.

Slippery

Slippery
Okay, so this post is a bit of a geek-out for you Lightroom users. I grabbed some Polaroid-ish presets over at the hub Presetsheaven.com but A Polaroid isn’t a Polaroid without that distinctive white border.

I went looking for that and found some free samples here.

Then it was just a matter of cropping the middle out of the image, saving it as a .PNG and importing it as a graphical identity plate. I played around with the size until it was just perfect and I figured I’d share my final result (and the Template so you can do it yourself), which you can download here.

If you don’t know how to import this into LR, PH has some pretty cool videos to help you out too.

Hairbrush

Hairbrush
how i wish my fingers were the bristles
or my breath were the wind when it whistles
thru your hair, thru your hair

i wish you’d hold me in your hands
and let me skate thru all the strands
of your hair, of your hair

i could style it anyway you like it
i could brush it straight or even spike it
au contraire! au contraire!

or i would wait patiently in my box
until next i would comb the locks
of your hair, of your hair

i would braid it tight, tousle, and tease!
or pull it back in a ponytail, if you please;
if you dare, if you dare

how often is it a man confesses
that he wish to run barefoot thru the tresses
of your hair, of your hair?

you may think me a little touch’d
but can i tell you just how much
i hate your hairbrush?

this obsession may be zealous
but can i tell you just how jealous
i am of your hairbrush? !

Rev. Dr. A. Jacob Hassler