Tag: Photography

My friend Shawn and I went to the airport today hoping to get some really cool photos of planes taking off and landing. Well it didn’t turn out that well. But we did get some pretty nice shots on the drive back home.

W. Eugene Smith, famed street/documentary photographer gave a rare interview in 1956. Excerpt here. More of Smith’s work here at Magnum. From the perspective of an historian, they may be none better than Smith for his ability to capture a narrative in film format.

I’ve never been one for the practice of street photography until lately. I read somewhere that street photography is the art of being in the right time, and the right place, with a camera. I laughed when I ran across this article with an almost identical title. Some excellent examples of right time, right place here.

More macro with my 60mm. I think that I am getting a better handle on using this lens but the focus issue remains. I think next time I will take multiple shots (I can get a burst of 6 RAW shots before the buffer clogs) and then use Photoshop to stack the images and then blend the focal points together. I will put together (or link to) a good tutorial soon.

For now, enjoy!

The power was off since I returned from laundry this morning with a scheduled replacement of hydro poles down my street. I took this as an opportunity to go out with my camera, again. The weather is really nice here; however, the sun was quite harsh. And with all the pavement, it was hot. Dare I say too hot?

Moving right along.

Here are some images from the walk through the neighbourhood with my Olympus 60mm. I love the macro capability of this lens. It has truly given me a new perspective on the world around me. The 1:1 is really exciting, seeing the individual parts of the flowers is amazing! I’m still a novice with macro though. I have stopped down to f8.0 and even with the bright sunlight, the challenge is the wind and general camera steadiness! Probably better with a tripod and shutter release but I’m pleased with my handheld results thus far. I’ll keep working on it! Enjoy these as much as I did taking them!

So today and the next week look great, weather-wise! So this morning I decided to take my camera with me to work with my Olympus 60mm. Spring means flowers! So here are a quick few from today. I found the macro work to be challenging! The very sharp plane of focus meant that it was difficult with the wind. I stopped down to 5.6, alas, it was still tricky trying to find focus! I found the macro focus knob on the lens easier to adjust for 1:1 than I thought it would be, once I located it with my finger I could concentrate on the viewfinder and trying to deal with the wicked wind. All in all, a great lunch hour!

This photo is a close-up from a model close to Confederation Park, the second is a tiny Nepali buddha statue that my colleague gave me. Then it’s just flowers. 🙂

I get up early. I love looking outside and seeing the early eastern morning rays of sunlight making the clouds radiate their reds and yellows and lights and darks. Great way to start the day. Here are some samples from the last few weeks.

Wow! Here is a link to 22 places that I want to take photos of! Some of these shots are amazing! Check out the Naica Mine in Mexico!

An interesting photographic technique called “time stacking” here.

Essentially it is a technique derived from experimenting with time lapse whereby the photographer “stacks” images from a sequence of time interval photographs.