tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34212150255967597432012-02-16T17:58:04.743-05:00An ongoing account of my better and recent photography, updated when I can.Ian Hayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13615760796587659802noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421215025596759743.post-44138891630969203512011-09-01T21:35:00.003-04:002011-09-01T23:00:41.242-04:00

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:

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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....

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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:

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Some recent and older portraits and people photographs

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A selection of my favourite photos of children I know:

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A selection of landscape/cityscape photos:

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Some recent still life photographs and images of otherwise non-living things:

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A selection of my better real estate and architectural photos. More categories to follow.

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Hello reader and clicker of links:I'm starting to hit the limits of what Flickr can do (as good as a site as it is) as a showcase of my photography. It's difficult to organize, and difficult to navigate while maintaining the visual layout and flow I want.A photoblog is not much better, but at least I can give it a black background. The challenge for me will be keeping it updated (keep your

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