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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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Desert Roadtrip 2011
Summer seems like it has finally come to stay for a while here in Vancouver, but instead of sticking around to enjoy it, we’re jumping in the car and heading to the desert. That’s right, summer in the American desert. Today’s highs? Moab: 36ºC, Joshua Tree: 37º, Death Valley: 45º. For the next three weeks …
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Image Recovery in Lightroom 3
While browsing through my archives I came across a photo I’d shot several years ago but never really been able to do anything with. The image has elements I enjoy, but overall felt quite flat. A major contributor to my reluctance to keep working on the photo was my lack of knowledge when it came to certain methods of image manipulation. No matter what I did, I just couldn’t achieve the overal look and feel I felt necessary to make the image a success.
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Summer 2011 Update
Since the beginning of the year I’ve been shooting and posting to my portfolio fairly regularly, but recently there’s been a bit of a slowdown in that action. The reason for this is that I’m taking these summer months to focus on three key things: Playing outside, shooting personal projects, and furthering my photographic knowledge. …
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Photo Assistant Required
This is a preliminary casting call for an assistant on some personal/art photo projects happening this spring and summer in the Vancouver area. Interested candidates should come equipped with a fairly low opinion of themselves, a love of working harder than anyone else around them, and a penchant for menial tasks. A typical day might …
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