..I am shooting portraits, at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair at the CNE. Like this – except this one is of me, not by me:
Two studio lights, shot into umbrellas with a Nikon D2H on a synch cord, and tethered to a PC. (the show’s sponsors do not want Canon equipment used, so I cannot use my own camera).
But I did manage to get a snap of Miss Ohio, contest winner.Here she is:
A recent Cat picture, taken with the 7D. The camera is at f/8 and 1/125th second with bounced flash.
Taken with the 16-35mm f/2.8L lens at 30mm.
And view it at the larger size to see how incredibly sharp this is.
From the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, where I am shooting portraits all week.
Shoot your lunch tomorrow. One snap.
I’ll start off. Seelochnie at Henry’s in Mississauga this weekend, when I was teaching photography there, made me some food – and she brought in some truly delicious snacks for all:
Yummy.
Now I’d like to see your lunches!
…included me shooting a ball for a hospital charity, and then a meeting with Elizabeth May, leader of Canada’s Green Party:
1/60th sec, f/2.8, 800 ISO, 1Ds MkIII, 35mm lens.
I can tell you that leaving aside politics, on which I have no comment, Ms May is an extremely nice person, and one who is also both extremely intelligent and observant. I am genuinely impressed. It is rare that you see such a combination of nice, intelligent and observant. I am not sure whether most people in the room even realised how intelligent this lady is.
1/60th sec, f/2,8, 800 ISO, on 1Ds MkIII with 16mm lens
Don’t forget the wide angles! Here’s a snap taken the other day, using my 16mm wide angle on a full-frame camera (so if you have a crop sensor camera such as a D60 or Digital Rebel, to get this you would have to use a 10mm lens):
Can you see I like the diagonals to go into the corners? That is my preference.
Photography becomes a lot of fun when you start to develop your own preferences.
I noticed the matching colour, here in the picture below.
It is always a good idea to look at colour while you are shooting. And you can learn to notice. Start like this: If anything strikes you: shoot!
Harmonious colours, is how we describe colours that are close together (as opposed to contrasting colours, which are opposite, like red-green, or blue-yellow). The above shows harmonious colours. These strikes us as gentle, soft, understated, even.
Taken at “Tribe” on 24 October 2009.
One “detector’ that you should train yourself to have is the “curve-detector”. Curves lead gently through the picture, like a gentle slow journey. Two samples, picked from many:
Both taken on the same day in Gamla Stan: Old Stockholm.
Almost 2 hours from Toronto to Mississauga!
1000 ISO at f/2.8 and 1/60th sec on a 35mm f/1.4L lens on the Canon 7D.
To see how cool and sharp these are, view them at the larger size.
We ought to all shoot in Black and White sometimes, I keep saying.Reducing all colours it shades of gray can make even mundane subjects interesting. It works well with brick:
