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Fire in the Glebe

Fire in the Glebe
Certainly not the greatest of images – I still thought it might be an interesting view of the fire in the Glebe for folks who live in Ottawa.

Shot this while leaning against my boardroom window at Carling & Bronson hand-held with the Canon G11 and processing Lightroom 3 Beta with Silverefex Pro for the B&W conversion. I gotta say, especially for point & shoot images (like the G11) running a filter over them like ones from Nik Software are a great way to give them some PUNCH that they may otherwise be missing due to technical limitations.

Jan 18, 2010 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | 4 Comments »

Explode

Explode
Yesterday’s rejects = today’s post! Shot with a Lensbaby 3G on the Younes Bounhar 2009 Fall workshop.

With the Canon 1DMKII still in the shop, and the temperatures hovering around -30 degrees, I’ve been trying different lighting setups at home using the G11. MANY of these images are either shots I think are cute (of Quinn) and I’ll spare you too many of those here, while others are seriously lame experiments playing around with the macro function [on my face!] or other things that are playful, but not particularly interesting.

Still no new baby either so y’know, not a lot around to inspire me lately.

Jan 10, 2010 | Categories: Nature | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

Post

Post
There’s still a a little leftover Ice on things here in Ottawa.

Having to stay home, lest a baby suddenly burst forth from Mel’s womb, has afforded me a bit of reading time. Most of it (all of it) has been directly, or indirectly, related to the work of David duChemin, he’s a wonderful photographer and (dare I say it) possibly an even better writer. David write a lot about the vision of photography, and not just what you see, but possibly why you see it… or how you, as a photographer, may be able to reproach and see things differently. He’s got some ebooks which should keep you warm by the fire in these cold months; they’re only $5 each so you can still afford to heat your home.

I’ve also picked up, on his multiple recommendations, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. I’m only a little bit into it but it’s already kicked me in the ass on every page. My synopsis? Stop waiting for things to happen: MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.” Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption

Jan 07, 2010 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Watchin U

Watchin U
Me & Quinn giving y’all a once over.

Things have been pretty hectic around here this week, so please excuse the dust and lack of posts. I haven’t had time to write anything let alone take pictures. Mel’s due… like, now… so we’re basically sitting here watching to see if her belly pops like a balloon.

I also sent the DSLR into the shop for repair, which leaves me (foolishly) without my primary camera for my son’s arrival. So here I am taking the best shots I can with the G11 but I doubt I can bring the whole lighting setup to the birthing room. Maybe they have their own – anyone know the colour temperature and power output of delivery room lights over at the Ottawa Civic Hospital? I’d rather not shoot over ISO 400… and lower is preferable with this thing.

This shot probably has more light than it needs, or maybe just enough considering the setup. Three lights in two sources; two PW’d speedlights in a 60″ umbrella camera left (1/2 power) and another at 1/2 power right at our feet behind a lastolite trigrip diffuser. All lights were triggered with PocketWizards.

Jan 04, 2010 | Categories: Portraits | Tags: , , , , | 5 Comments »

Thornton

Thornton
Evan Thornton, Editor at Spacing Ottawa, who also happens to live in Hintonburg booked me to do a portrait shoot with him a few weeks back.

This shoot is a great way of showing off why I love portrait photography so much; it was cold – really fucking cold – and I did eventually lose the feeling in my index finger so we had to break.

I was also able to snooker myself an assistant, in some professional photography form of Stockholm syndrome Randy Little, whom I also did a portrait of, came as my VAL (voice activated light stand).

We shot this one simply and quick. Randy was holding a PW’d Canon 580exII (on manual) through a Lastolite 24″ Ezybox, hitting Evan from camera left. I didn’t change lenses; sticking to my 100mm f/2.8 IS L Macro (even though we didn’t do any macro’s of Evan’s face, the 100mm is a great portrait focal length), and we bounced around the same block for a bunch of different looks.

While Even didn’t pick this particular one, I get a kick out of the great colours in the background – like we put this stoic man right in the middle of Munchkin land and he’s pissed.

Also just got a new logo – if you don’t see it refresh your browser and it should pop up at the top left of the page – it also looks best on the light theme – lemme know what you think!

Dec 30, 2009 | Categories: Portraits | Tags: , , | 4 Comments »