Bubbles

Blowing bubbles inside makes for a slippery floor.

1/125 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100, 50mm, flash bounced off ceiling, hand-held

1/125 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100, 50mm, flash bounced off ceiling, hand-held

1/125 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100, 50mm, flash bounced off ceiling, hand-held

Musical Punch Bowl

Sorry, things have been slow on the blog lately. I just need a break every now and then.

Here's an example of my playing around with a technique called shaped bokeh. I think I have the technical part down, but I haven't really come up with anything too inspiring yet. There's lots of tutorials out there explaining how to do this so instead of taking the time to write another one, just to make myself look smart, I'll direct you to the one I used: http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_create_your_own_bokeh.

1-20 sec, f/1.8 (well that's what the camera was set to, I guess to find what it really was you'd have to calculate the area of the music note shape and then find what the diameter of a circle with the same area would be, then divide that into the focal-length), ISO 800, 50mm (35mm eqv. 81mm)

Behind the Scenes

Canon PowerShot A510, 1.6 sec, f/2.6, ISO 50, 5.8mm (35mm eqv. 37mm)

You may notice I made a couple adjustments that are not in the tutorial. First, I made it easier to add different shapes without having to make a holder for each one. And second, I didn't have any black paper that would block out all light, so I used aluminum foil with cardboard to hold it in place. I figured that this would also allow me to have cleaner edges than paper would. However, the foil is much more delicate, I think.

Camp Fire

Flower

My friend Alain and I set up a little studio to photograph this flower. It wasn't much, just a dark room with some halogen work lights, because neither of us own a flash yet. We sprayed it with water just to make it a little nicer.

Red seems to be a hard colour for me. Whenever I do something with a lot of red, it never turns out quite the way I'd like. I'm not really sure how to explain what I mean, I just think it could be better.

More Smoke

Went back to the smoke pictures and edited a couple more.

Silhouette

My wife's getting bigger closer to her due date. I thought a silhouette would be cool so here it is.

Sick Shots

I've been sick all weekend and today so I haven't spent much time out of bed. I managed to stumble around the house and find a few shots.

Fire

Here's some interesting flames Alain and I got when lighting matches.

Playing with Fire

Don't try this at home, kids!

Actually, this is more about playing with smoke. My friend Alain and I got together the other day to see what kinds of things we could do with smoke.


I thought this one cool, I call it "48". I just messed with the colors, the shape is natural.

I messed with everything on this one.

Christmas 1

Lights

Here's some interesting, kind of abstract, photos of some cars passing by.  I started out with the idea that I'd get some sunset shots and maybe some of the city where I live from a nearby hill, but I was a little slow to get going and missed the sunset completely and I didn't have a tripod at the time, so good night-time shots were out of the question.  These were taken with 3 or 4 second shutter speeds and some deliberate shake and movement.

This is really just a last minute attempt to post something at least three times a week.