Portrait of a Friend

After I set up a portrait session with a classmate...and he never showed up I organized one at my house with my friend Kalinka.

Whenever I pictured a photo of her I just couldn't picture it against anything but a white background.

So we had a little portrait session.

I had 3 lights, I had 2 softboxes that I shot though, one ontop, and one on the bottom of the camera...and a 1 light shooting through my background lighting the background up as white...as well as  seperarting her from it...and adding a night highlight/wrap around her that I found really carried out the angelic look, and the angelic way she holds herself.

The only think I would have changes was maybe use to beauty dishes, so that she had a circular catch light instead of 2 squares ones.

Slow Shutter Speed With Flash

This was my photo of a slow shutter with flash.

I asked my friend who was DJING one night if I could come and take photos for my class...he said yes.

So what I did was experimented and this was the best one of the batch...what I did was I picked my framing...or at least how I wanted it to look...waited for the drop (where the bass kicks in, which would make him, the DJ, go crazy for the crowd), then I set my shutter speed to 1/2 a second, I then set my focus manually, locked it in, and opened my aperture so I got proper exposure, my ISO was around 6400. I set my flash to 1st Curtain Sync so I got the light streaks, and on my 24-70, I went in tight to 70mm, then I timed it, when I hit the shutter, I zoomed out, so that just as the shutter opened and the flash went off, I went wide, and I hit 24mm (the widest focal length i could go on that lens) just as the curtain began to close.

I was very happy with the results!!

Speeding Water Droplets

This was my photo for the speeding water droplets assignment.

I used a super fast shutter speed (1/4000th) and a wide open aperture (f/2.8) along with an ISO of 800. I shot it on a Canon 100mm f/2.8L Macro lens.

I was somewhat unhappy with how this series of photos came out...just because I thought that I could have done better. I couldn't get the timing right with my partner, and even though I would turn on the motor drive, and blast away...I still couldn't seem to get a keeper.

This was my favourite of the set though! And I love how the indentation of the drop has created somewhat of a hole in the water...while the ripples circle away from it. I recropped the shot, to almost center the drop.

Panorama

This was my panorama photo:

I used 30 photos stitched together, and layered upon each other to create this photo. I shot 3 different exposures of each photo (so same framing for each photo, but my settings were 2 stops under exposed, 1 shot perfectly exposed, and the third shot 2 stops over exposed), then I created a High Dynamic Range photo, which gave it this certain look!

I edited it in Photoshop CS5.5...and each one of my shots (not including the under/over exposed photos) overlapped the previous by about 30%.

I travelled with my family to Ottawa, and while they were at a museum, I went exploring with my camera and tripod with the intention of shooting the panorama photo. But when I saw the bridge I thought that I had to use that! So I shot it...and then I looked at it, and thought that I had to do something to spice it up...therefore I reshot it so I could do the HDR!

Painting with Light

This my photo that I did for painting with light.


My settings were:
Shutter: 30 seconds open
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100

I was happy with the concept...but ultimately the execution was lacking...I would have ideally used a flash to freeze Justin, because over 30 seconds, you can see a lot of motion blur.