Entries in d700 (3)

Saturday
Mar062010

Three, soon four

Today, on a beautiful sunny Vancouver-day, I spent the morning on a photo shoot with this great family of three, soon four. We shot for a couple of hours at Dundarave Park by the water in West Vancouver, and managed to find some nice shade in the harsh March sun.

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Sunday
Jun212009

Window of opportunity, lighting tips #1

The first thing I do when someone asks me to take their group picture at a party is to move them into a spot with good lighting. I don't know what it is with people, but we seem to gravitate towards standing in front of windows thinking: "oh, how wonderful we will get the nice view in the picture". I hate to be the one to break the news, but no, that is not what will happen.

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Sunday
Jun072009

Urban legends: the RAW format

I am a huge fan of the Discovery Channel show, Mythbusters. Part science, part stuff blowing up and part people getting hurt (in the name of science), so what's not to like?

Jamie: "What do you got for us, Adam?" Adam: "You're gonna like this one. We are looking at myths related to the RAW format" (Photo credit: www.discoverychannel.ca)

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