Stereoscopic Animations
I just stumbled across these experiments with single camera stereoscopic images I created last fall, and thought I’d share them as a curiousity. They’re essentially an animated .gif of two images taken from slightly different perspectives. Done cleanly, two cameras and a bracket are used, but I was playing around with simply moving moving my camera freehand. To ensure the …
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Travel Plans: Georgia and Germany
It’s official, we’re booked for Georgia and Germany for three months between April and July. It might sound like a bit of a strange mix of countries, but part of the reason for this trip is visiting extended family in Germany that I’ve not seen in more than 20 years. The first bit of clarification when people hear about the plan …
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Chinese New Year Parade, Vancouver 2012
With the weather forecast predicting a torrential downpour, I nearly skipped the Chinese New Year Parade. An hour before the scheduled start time I realized it was clearing and decided to run down there to see if I could capture some of it on film. I arrived a little late, the skies were grey, it did rain, and the light …
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Lightroom Keywording
Part 1: Lightroom Catalogs, One or Many? Part 2: Lightroom Collections So you’ve loaded all your photos into your catalog(s), created some collections, and are now ready to take the next big step in organizing your photos and being able to access them when you need to. That step is easily the most work, the first thing to fall behind on, …
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Lightroom Collections
In the last post we talked about merging catalogs into one single master so we could use Lightroom’s organizational tools. If you’ve decided to put all your images into one place, the next step is figuring out how to find time. While I’m speaking in terms of Adobe Lightroom 3, many of these principles apply to other image organizing tools …
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Now Selling Prints and Stock
Over the holidays I took some time to go through my South America archives and set up a stock and print sale site with PhotoShelter. Using the Purchase+ link above, you can go to my Featured Prints or Stock Archive to view a wide selection of images for web, editorial, or commercial use. Any image from the stock galleries can …
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Lightroom Catalogs, One or Many?
Remember back in the day when you’d shoot a roll of film, have it developed, maybe put some of the photos into an album, and then dump your negatives into a giant box or drawer full of other photo store envelopes loaded with negatives? Did you ever go back to try to find a single image to reproduce? Sometimes this …
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10 Favourites from 2011
While doing a little year-end clean up in my Lightroom catalogs, I decided it might be fun to go through and pick out ten of my favourite images from the past year. The final selection is listed below in order of capture date. Each image represents either a technical or artistic highlight from my last twelve months of creating images. …
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Balmacarra Neutral Density Filter Test
Today I experienced one of those forehead slapping moments when I finally realized the value of neutral density filters as the images hit my LCD. On some level I’d always understood how they affected the ways certain elements could be photographed in the middle of the day, bud I’d never fully appreciated how dramatic the difference could be. While shooting …
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Standard Action Promo Cards
Further to my Standard Action Poster Design post, the cards are in from the printers and I’m happy to share the finished product. As creators in the digital age, we spend a lot of time dealing with our images on the computer. It’s really a wonderful feeling to be holding your work in your hands, and to have that tactile …
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Standard Action Poster Design
Earlier this year I had the extreme pleasure of shooting some set stills for the folks behind the comedy-fantasy webseries Standard Action. Shortly after, I approached them with a concept for the promotional poster you see below, and we gathered in the woods to shoot the base images for several layouts. This was a first exercise for me in taking …
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Occupy Vancouver Portraits
Last Saturday I spent 11 hours at the Occupy Vancouver protest creating portraits of some of the people in attendance. My intent was not to make statements for or against the movement, but to single out some of the many and varied faces in the crowd. A movement like this is about people more than it is about signs and …
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Victoria Cyclocross
While in Victoria this past weekend, I stopped in at the Topaz Park Grand Prix cyclocross race to cheer on a friend and to snap a few photos. Arriving a little too close to the start time kept me from properly scouting the course, but I quickly found what looked like an interesting stretch of switchbacks across one of the …
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Fall Bouldering Experimentation
When my friend Colin told me he was flying in from Hong Kong for a week of bouldering at the beginning of October I immediately warned him that it can often rain heavily for days on end, and that he should prepare himself for a week of no climbing. Miraculously, the torrential rains that bad been plaguing the lower mainland …
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