I was hanging out in a local coffee shop where one of my good friends works. He was closing up the shop and I was giving him a ride home. I used this opportunity to take my camera around the shop and take some more abstract pictures. After just watching a video about photography and using only one lens. I decided to get back in to that way of thinking. Clicking on my 50/1.8 to my D3, I went in search of something to stare at.
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Posts Tagged: Photography
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Oct 09
Coffee Shop
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Oct 09
Video
This has been out for a while but it’s a video that Wired.com did about photography. Specifically, street photography using a natural light. I found on the strobist blog about a week ago and I feel that if you don’t read that blog, and you’re a photographer, you should. If you haven’t seen it here it is.
Click here if you are using a reader to view this post, so you can view the video. I hope you enjoyed that video, I’m going to have to get out the scrim and head downtown to try a little of this out.
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Sep 09
Why is it so?
I don’t know what my fascination with black and white photography is lately. I think it’s the contrast. Not the tonal contrast but the fact that black and white images are an interpretation of reality, not an image of reality. Merely representing shape, form and tone. It’s raw. I guess. That’s what I’m trying to say. I dig it. I was reading a blog about photography techniques. I came to the realization that “technique” is only one way of doing things. It suggests that you should use the lowest possible ISO when taking black and white images. The reason is because noise is evil and bad. Seriously. I like noisy pictures as much as I like noiseless pictures. It depends on my mood.
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Sep 09
Trees and Fog
I had the opportunity at the beginning of September to take my film camera on a boat trip up to Maple Bay on the west coast of British Columbia. There were few moments where I wasn’t wearing my full storm gear. It was wet. The first night we stopped at Portland Island, located just off the shores of Sidney. When we woke up, we had one of those few moments where it was sunny out. Great! Time to go explore. You’ve probably seen a few of the pictures from the Clean, Fresh and New post. After doing some rescanning and some editing, here are a few more shots from that trip. Continue reading →
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Sep 09
Clean, Fresh and New.
Just in case you haven’t noticed, I’ve made a few changes around the site. I had heard a few comments that my site was cluttered with visual information and inconsistent. I thought to myself, what is a clean and clutter free design. White. It’s simple, effective and brings the eye to the photograph itself. And considering I am a photographer and this is a photoblog, that almost makes sense. Redesigning the main website was a tricky decision, I wanted to keep my logo that I had, but it just doesn’t work very well. It seems like a stamp. So it’s been redefined and cleaned up as well. Please let me know what you think of the new layout. I’m open to opinion and suggestion.
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Aug 09
Brand New Gallery
I’ve just created a new gallery on my website designed specifically for pictures that I’ve taken on my mobile phone. Most of the pictures were photographed with my Nokia 6300 and then post processed in Adobe Lightroom. Some of the processing was done in camera with features like: false colours, which creates a cross processed feel; negative; and solarize. The camera itself is only 2 megapixels and has no focus, exposure or depth of field control. I like that, it gives more chance for creativity. It does have a decent zoom, but it’s all digital and I prefer to shoot with a fixed focal length anyways. Continue reading →
