You might THINK this image is an HDR, but then you’d be wrong; it’s just kinda lame.
But I liked the way the flag looked flapping in the wind so here I am posting it anyways.
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Blueberries
I have been completely and photographically negligent this past week. Maybe I’ve been actually paying attention to things that pay the bills (rather than create them), but I haven’t taken out the SLR… and while I’ve been carrying the LX3 around with me, producing only a few grab shots here and there.
Though I should step up my game this week; with Scott Kelby’s World-Wide Photowalk this coming Saturday, and your’s truly the Ottawa “leader.”
Eden Revisited
I was very fortunate this week to have one my photos critiqued on the esteemed David DuChemin’s Within the Frame Podcast episode 6. He looked at a previous photo I had submitted to the Flickr group of Eden.
This is the sort of thing I need – I CRAVE it. Not the typical “this sucks” or “this is great” but why… and maybe you can’t quantify those things (I know I have great difficulty with it), but it’s why some of us need to have that done by a working pro. Someone who knows what they’re talking about.
And I truly believe David does. I recently read and finished his book and am definitely a fan. I am honoured that he chose my photo and all this critique does for me is make me CRAVE more, and do better.
update: you can watch the podcast directly here!
Annie
Another 1-light shot from fishing in Northern Ontario. This one’s of Mel’s cousin Annie (can you tell she’s had two kids? I can’t.)She’s, uh, holding onto my rod.
Same premise as the shot from a few days ago, had a 580ex with the Lumiquest SBIII on top – this time I was able to use the setting sun as balance in most of my images. Depending on the way we were facing, the sunset was either rim and the flash became key, or the flash was fill on one side as the sun was key to the other… though the one time I tried to get the flash as rim a slight bump almost sent my J-clamp into the drink (it with the 580exII with a PWII..hmmn, almost $1,000 right there), so I stopped clamping it to the side of the boat after that.
Sudbury
The window’s on the plane were scratched and plastic, so there’s a lot of “stuff” blocking the view – but I really appreciated certain parts of Ontario as we flew over them. Other parts (Timmins), have less to appreciate, you can see the mines from space… so from the plane they are an even deeper scar on the earth.