Monday, April 29, 2013

Doorlight

Today Dar and I went down to Granville Island on our photowalk. I tried out some timelapse photos on False Creek. I look forward to seeing how they work out. On our slow meandering way home we stopped in the area of E 50th/Main in Vancouver. We didn't stay long but we found this door and the shadow was at a great angle. Made me think of the church door from a few days ago. 

 Taken with the 24-70 at 35mm 1/500th sec f4 iso 200. Original in colour processed to black and white in Silver Effects Pro.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Light In Motion

Time Lapse photography has been something that if it was being shown I would always stop and watch it. I find it fascinating to watch a flower bloom, something growing out of the ground, or even clouds rolling by all occuring in a few seconds. Whenever I thought of doing it myself in the past it just seemed a bit too complicated fo my skill level. With dslrs, a tripod, and an intervalometer it is a lot more practical. It is also very popular. I notice it more on mainstream tv and if you search "time lapse" on Vimeo you can find some extraordinary and beautiful video like this. My intervalometer is on its way. In the meantime I took this with my phone. My old phone. I don't think I could have lasted that long without my current one. I am pretty excited about this and hope to have more to show you in the future.   


Sunday, April 14, 2013

Roses In The Light

I really enjoy taking photos of flowers. If you have followed this blog for long you may have noticed some with the white background before. This works very well for me. It's an environment easy to control and it shows off the flowers rather nicely. Roses are pretty good subjects. You can spend a couple hours with them for photographs then then wrap them up and give them to someone at dinner. They smell nice too. These are currently being used in an experiment with time lapse photography. Might take a week or so they last so well. With all the flowers starting to come out soon you may see more flower photos. 

 For this I used the 24-70 2.8 at 50mm 1/160th sec f22 iso 400. Lighting was a strobe at camera left shot through an umbrella at the background and one through an umbrella at camera right at the flowers. I did some processing with Color Efex Pro 4 (even though they spell colour wrong).

Friday, April 12, 2013

Light Reflected

While organizing photos I came across this sunrise photo. I took it at the family cabin shortly after my Mom died. Maybe it isn't a great picture technically but it caught the stillness of the morning at the start of another hot summer day. This is also a view embedded in my mind and heart after nearly 50 years of looking out over the lake. I don't actually recall taking this photo but I do recall a photo in one of my Moms albums of an 8x10 that was almost exactly like this. She really did enjoy taking pictures and as I recall she was proud of hers. 

  I took this 6 Ausgust 2006. I used the 24-85 at 24mm 1/500th sec f13 iso 400

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Light On The Church

When downtown roaming on my own the other day I spent some time around Christchurch Cathedral. The link tells you more about the church than I know. When the church was built it was one of the dominant buildings on the cityscape. Not so much anymore

I shot this with the 24-70 at 70mm 1/60th sec f6.3 iso 100.  The shadow across the door caught my eye. I knew when I took this I was going to be converting it to black and white. I have been trying out toning in conversions lately. I really enjoyed the look sepia gave this particular photo.

Monday, April 1, 2013

A Brief Visit To Tynehead

Tynehead Park has been a place I go back to again and again. I experience frustration and often times great pleasure trying to capture images there. I went yesterday and found although there were many people there it was quite peaceful in amongst the trees. I didn't cover very much ground so I'm going to have to go back soon and spend more of the day.

 This was taken using the 100mm macro tripod mounted 1/50th sec f5 iso 800. It was taken here.