Showing posts with label Cameron Arsenault. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cameron Arsenault. Show all posts
Our Plant Life
Although I still have a couple more images from the Vintage Wings "Air Show" I figured I'd switch things up a bit and give you a few flower pictures. These have been a long time coming. Having just moved into our new house a couple of months ago, we were left with all sorts of plants and flowers in the yards. It has almost been exciting to see the flowers bloom so that we can discover what exactly it is that we have! The first ones to come out were orange lillies, then came the red ones, the whites were next, and just recently there have been some purple lillies as well. In any case, it doesn't take one long to realise I used that as a chance to practice some flower photography! Here are a few examples of what came from that practice.
The Magic Floating Apple
You know those green apples always have to be different. You have to not only be good with a camera for a picture like this, but also a knife. You have to be fast enough to cut the apple (in place in the bowl) and take the picture as soon as all the cuts have been made! What do you mean you don't buy that? How else am I supposed to do that? I'm sure the method is apparent to some of you, but it make take a couple minutes to figure it out for others. Even if the answer is simple, it was still fun playing with this one!
Dog Portraits at the Park
It feels like it has been forever since I haven't had the opportunity to get out to the dog park and get some pictures of GuynS. For the horizontal one, I had fun getting as close to the ground as I could while Marie-Eve kept his attention with a giant frisbee! All in all, these couple of images will make a decent change from landscapes up here as well.
My own Top 5 HDR Images
Few words make photographer spark up a heated debate quicker than High Dynamic Range. Some love it, some hate it, some hide from the discussion as if their reputation depended on it. If I've already lost you and you are wondering what HDR is (and are interested in finding out) pop over to Trey Ratcliff's site http://www.stuckincustoms.com//hdr-photography/ for a description of what this type of photography entails (make sure you come back here though!). He also has a great tutorial and many amazing images to peruse if you are interested in jumping into HDR yourself. Like it or not, it is a widely popular form of photography or post processing today. Although it is often a technique I use when tackling landscapes or wanting to throwing an interesting spin on a subject, I definitely agree that some HDR images can easily be taken way too far. Those that dislike HDR may even find that to be the case for the images below, but believe me they can get a lot more "dynamic" than that. All controversy aside, here are my picks for my Top 5 HDR images of my own. Feel free to click on any of the images to get to the Flickr page where you can see it larger (click on "all sizes" at the top of the image) or check out some of my other work.
Pride - Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Hwy 2 Barn - Ontario
Chapel Point Battery - Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Smoke on the Water - Quebec
Tree of Life - Ontario
Fly on the Wall
Last week, I literally spend more than 20 minutes and approximately 4.5Gb of my 8Gb memory card taking pictures of a fly. I ended up with three I liked. Here is one of them. I was trying something new for the picture you see below. In order to make it a macro picture I needed a macro lens. My Sigma 17-70mm still didn't get close enough, SO ... this is an experiment that I read about on the internet. I actually held my Canon 50mm f/1.8 BACKWARDS against the body for a macro shot. Cool eh? See the two others on my flickr page here. See the rest of my pictures on my flickr photostream here.
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