After the show at the NAC’s 4th stage, an event in cooperation with the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation & The NAC Foundation. It’s a remarkable fundraising dinner (themed) followed by live performances on the 4th stage. It’s an intimate venue and both of this years’ performers were wonderful. Pictured here is Jill Barber, she had a wonderful voice and that made me think I was sitting somewhere in a different time… like out of a 30’s movie or something.
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Office Space
I had a few minutes before my client showed up for a portrait shoot this past Sunday, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t looking for other photographic opportunities.
While I don’t find the building particularly attractive, I was drawn to it’s lines and, in particular, their repetition. Hopefully I was able to capture something a bit more abstract – since it’s not really one of my strengths. Let me know what you think in the comments!
Ceremonial
From the groundbreaking at Wellspring Ottawa, which I was not officially photographing and, thusly, was able to focus on whatever I liked 😀
Lineage
I was editing some photos at my desk when I heard some meowing and purring coming from the other room. We don’t own a cat so I knew it had to be our youngest son Alex.
His coo’s come out more like purrs, and it’s pretty darn cute. It’s also great to see him wake up in a great mood. Our other son, Quinn, tends to scream – LOUDLY – when he wakes up.
Basically Quinn’s all fucked up – his hair’s a mess, he’s confused, cranky, and doesn’t know what’s going on and doesn’t care. Alex wakes up and is happy to be taking in the world, the light is shining through the window, he’s got a cool mobile overhead – “oh look, daddy’s got the big flash on his camera again.” *POP*
Sunshine
So not like me to post a bunch of flower macro photos. Weird, though, I can’t seem to take macro’s of much of anything else.
Getting in this close is a whole other level of perception, one that I’m not as in tune to. You gotta see, explore, even more. Flowers are obvious targets – that’s why I’m surprised I’m taking them so much – but they blow in the wind and have all these nasty little flaws that make them a pain in the butt.
I’ve seen some great macro work done of metal objects, imprints, imperfections and the like… I just don’t “see” them, at least, I don’t see that way yet.
The same goes for any of your photography, telephoto lenses compress a scene, making the background flatten to the foreground. Wide angles lenses will distort the corners of your image; fisheye lenses will catch your feet too if you’re not paying attention. All of these are tools at your disposal, to show the reality you want people to see, but to capture it effeciently and accurately you really need a sense of what you’re doing. You need to previsualize the shot, which also means you’ll need to be familiar with your optics before you put the shutter to your eye.
Of course, untried, it’s like exploring a new world, everything is new and different and wonderful again, even flowers.