Abstract Human Form

This is my favorite picture of the shoot, but I wanted to show it in colour and black and white, both the portrait style and the landscape style (I think that the landscape style makes it look more like mountains, but thought I'd just share both.)

Original

Original (Landscape)

Black and White

Black and White (Landscape)

Scanography Exploration with Emily

Emily and I both had some free time on Friday, so we decided to try out some scanography.
Here are our results; after much fooling around:

My hair

Emily as a blonde :)

LOL; I have no idea. :)

Emily's brilliant idea, my crazy eyes :S

Lips.

Still Life Assignment

Here are my still life shots for the assignment:

STUDIO

Tropical :)

Agfa Isolette I

ON LOCATION (Kitchen)

Large Crepes

Small Crepes

Abstract Human Form

Web Research Pics from Deviantart:

by ECunningham

by showyour-bones

by tk-07

by buck-patterson

From Flickr:

by *Jennie

Still Life

Here are some Still Life shots from Deviantart:

White Wine by Nofixedphotos

Falling mixed fruit by ASQ

Love Cherry by dkraner

Classic and Creative Portraits

Here is my classic portrait:

Cynthia

 And here are some creative ones (I couldn't choose just one; they are all so different.)

Cynthia

Riancy
(An attempt at Karsh Lighting; it didn't turn out how I expected or wanted, but I still like it! )

Andrew

(An experiment with gels.)

Environmental Portraits by Available Light

Here are some people that are working in their environment:

Final Image:

Stephane; working on a furnace.
I actually liked how his "workplace" was so cramped and small, yet he still peaked out for me to take his portrait.

A Couple Extras:

  His partner working in the trailer.

A young man washing the windows at the library.

A woodworker at an artisan/craft show.

Lighting Exercise

Here are some pictures from the Lighting Exercise we had in the Studio class.
Unfortunately, I don't have many good shots from the studio, as I wasn't using a tripod; most of those obviously didn't turn out well.

 Natural Backlighting from a Window

 I think this was our set-up for fill light.
It didn't work out so well, since there are still dark shadows...but it's decent.

This isn't really any of the lighting exercises we were asked to do, I just like her expression on this picture and thought I'd put it up... technically it's front lighting though...

Events and Moments Assignment

For this assignment, we had to shoot some events and decisive moments.
Here are a couple of pictures I took at the Lantern Festival.

I liked how this couple was taking pictures of the lanterns; I would say it is kind of a decisive moment, but I would say it's my event shot, because we see where they are, surrounded by lanterns, and we can conclude, that it's some kind of event.



These next two images were also taken at the Lantern Festival, but they're more decisive moments.
In the first one, there's a man taking a picture of his wife and daughter, and in the second there's a lady explaining something to her friend.

This picture was already posted on my blog for the Night Photography Exercise, but I think it works well as an "event" also.
It was staged, but it depicts this girl's birthday and the wish she's making.

This picture is a decisive moment, of the soccer player about to kick the ball and take a shot.
Unfortunately I had to take this in the evening, at max ISO, and so it's really grainy.

This is another decisive moment, of a motorcyclist just taking the turn.
(It was shot while sitting in the car.)

Night (Low-Light) Photography - Exercise

Here are my NIGHT shots:

This picture was actually taken during the day, early afternoon, but in my room, which is in the basement.
The soft white lights were created by the sunlight peaking through my bamboo shutters; and the blue light is actually the light of my computer speaker.

This shot was taken on BULB, for 13 seconds, at f11 at 100 ISO.

This is for my "documenting" shot, which was taken at 6400 ISO.

I really liked her expression on this picture, almost as if she were thinking of what to wish for.

I also liked this shot, of the same series, because she's actually blowing out the candle.

Both these shots could actually be taken as an "event" as well.

Magnum Photographers

I chose Josef Koudelka, born in a Czechoslovakian province,  as my photographer from the Magnum website.
His Portfolio

And here are a couple of his images that I liked:

In this image, he's controlling the background and waiting for the right moment, when the dog aligns itself with the path.

Here again, he aligns his subject with the background and quite possibly this is a candid shot.

This picture was take at just the right moment; he must've waited quite a long time for the birds to take flight and frame them in an interesting way. I also like how it seems the birds will continue to fly through the picture; there seems to be some kind of interaction between all the birds.

I know this image was taken on a day of a carnival, maybe only for school children. This is definitely a candid shot, and a very interesting one at that, since something like this doesn't occur everyday. I also like the interaction between the older woman and the angel-boy; she seems to be looking at him in an unapproved way, which seems somewhat ironic, because he's dressed up as an angel. There is also a slight implied interaction between the horses and the child; they're both going in the same direction, which doesn't make it feel like the horses are disturbing the composition of this picture.

Abstraction

Here are a couple of my abstract shots:

I like the shadows in this image, because they're also diagonal lines and kind of triangular.
Then there are diagonal lines and triangles in the carpet.
 

This is a close-up of a spider web; the threads are kind of delicate, so they don't show the great shapes I was hoping for, but they sort of contrast the circles in the blurry background.

Here's a close up of some wires; they show curved lines through out the image.

Assignment 1 Landscapes

Here is my final landscape shot:

This picture was taken on a stormy evening, the 5th of September, of Lac-St-Louis.

Here are a couple more shots that I took, while doing this landscape assignment, but didn't feel they were as "landscapey" as the shot above, yet I feel like they're still interesting.

Pointe-du-Moulin

 

Side of the road on Don Quichotte

Corn Fields (and Lines) on Don Quichotte