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:

Recent Portraiture Work

I've done a few portraits that I'm proud of over the last few months. Here are a few:

Here are a few of a couple of my best friends, who were patient enough to let me experiment on them with some new lighting equipment:












I had an opportunity to do a quick, impromptu set of headshots for a neighbour of friend who needed a headshot for a new website venture. I happened to have my lights with me, so we went to business while the rest of the folks ate dinner (and mine got cold):



A couple of friends asked me to take a variety of portraits. Most of them were of the head-and-shoulders variety, but I really liked this environmental portrait of the two of them:



Recently I had the opportunity to do some still photography on a video set for a company that deals in video conferencing systems. This is one of my favourites from the stills we submitted:

New Still Life Work

It's been a while since I've been able to concentrate on any photography of note. I've recently done a few lighting and composition experiments in still life photography.

Here's an experiment in composition, both in placement of the subject and constructed background and lighting, that I think worked out well:



Here's a simpler shot of the same orchid, with some variation in the lighting:



Here are the results in some experiments in lighting reflective glass objects with a single light (pay no attention to the suspiciously missing contents from each of these - these three bottles have actually been on my shelf for years):

Still Life Flora

I was inspired this weekend to play with controlled light in still life photography. I went downstairs and bought some flowers (a stressful experience - the number of times I've bought flowers in my life that wasn't a last-second purchase to be immediately handed off to my mother or another deserving female is exactly zero), spent hours setting up the lights and tweaking the arrangements. Below are a few examples.

Christmas Family Portraits

At Christmas this year we had a larger than usual family gathering. I took the opportunity to do individual portraits of each. Here are a few of the ones I liked the best.