More Cottage Antics with Kids!

I hauled out a bunch of lighting equipment and set it up at my friends' cottage, and grabbed some pictures of their kids.

My little buddy here, 7 years old, promised me he'll kill me with his awesome homemade ninja sword skills.



His little sister, age 4, strikes a couple of nice poses before she runs away:

Portraiture and Lighting Experiments up at the Cottage

My friend was very kind and co-operative to model for me while I experimented with a bunch of lighting setups up at the cottage.

The first two photographs are my attempt at recreating natural-looking light using strobes. Both these photos are entirely artificially-lit (obviously excepting the view outside the window in the first shot). I think this was a successful experiment in artificial lighting, and both look very credible as natural light.





These shots are variations on a similar lighting setup with an octabox camera left with another strobe for mild fill:









As I packed up my gear, this nice shot came into view:

Family Photos for some Friends

Some good friends asked me to do some family photos earlier this year. It was a fun shoot, and the kids are hilarious. Here are my favourites.

Some Headshots for a Friend

A good friend was having a short story published, and needed some headshots for the magazine. Because the short story deals with hockey (her sick obsession), the hockey gear (her idea) seemed appropriate. We also took the opportunity to grab some shots with her and her daughter. These are my own re-processed shots of some of my favourites from the session.

Architecture Study - My Uncle's House

The following shots are from a self-study in interior architectural photography. I am trying to properly learn how to use my 24mm TS-E L, and properly compose interior architectural shots. I used my uncle's newly built, self-designed house in the Ontario countryside for practice. The dining area, looking out onto the field: The front entranceway and hall: The living room: My uncle's shower area: The east bedroom: The east bedroom's bathroom: A portrait of my uncle, the architect, designer and builder of this house (a 5-year post-retirement project for him):

Kids, Kids & More Kids!

Kids are fun to shoot. Except when they are running away, squirming, pouting or running behind your camera squealing "Can I see???". A collection of the kids I've shot in the past months....

Recent Still Life Work

More experiments in flowers (a.k.a. "getting my Mappelthorpe on, but not in a weird way"):










Here's a nice floating bell pepper:



I had some fun disassembling an old (4G) Seagate hard drive. Below are the actuator arm and head, circuit board, motor and the platters from the drive.













Finally, by way of a still life photograph, here are my photography monograph book recommendations. Every one a gem: