Filed under: Photography
This photo was shot quite some time ago, on my Sony R1. I’ve just rediscovered it!
My old cat, Daphne was curious as to what I was doing.
It was raining. The rain dripping down the windows diffused the light perfectly. It was the perfect moment…. click!
The mood of this photo reminds me of the song “sleepwalk” as done by The Brian Setzer Orchestra.
I love the way the diffused light perfectly highlighted her and hid her at the same time.
Filed under: Uncategorized
Did I tell you I love wide angles?
This was shot @ 18mm, 1/50 sec, f3.5, iso 400,
at 8pm when the light was quickly diminishing…
I’m pretty happy with the 18-55 kit lens, but i cannot wait to get the Tokina 11-16mm f2.8!
I got to the celebrations, only to catch the end of the grande finale!
as I left, I found this family in the park setting off roman candles!
Notes : Semi-Handheld (resting on a fence), 2 seconds, f8, iso 200
The last two months, had been pretty hard on me, because of very significant changes in my life, and my photography had really seemed to suffer because of it….
But because of very special friends, I was able to overcome this, move past it and, in my mind, really find myself.
Danny was one of them. Him and I have been the best of friends since back in high school, when we played in punk-rock bands together. In the last few years, we started going separate ways. Our lives were taking different paths, but we had a bond, something that could never be broken….
I had been trying to get together and catch up with Danny for a while, and because of circumstances and situations, we kept missing each other. It was one weekend in June, where i was having a really hard time dealing with these incredible changes in my life, when i just decided to go downtown by myself on a whim…. When I got down there, I didn’t really have much to do, one thing i had planned last minute was to attend a protest for Iran and to shoot some photos there, but i mixed up the venues and ending up missing the event all together…
So i called up Danny, and by chance, he had no plans for the day and we decided to meet up.
Danny had recently moved to Toronto, in the Kensington district.
So he showed me around the area, and helped me find some cool shots. We spent most of the day together, we talked about many things in our lives, and it really helped me reconnect with myself, and find myself. In turn, I think it helped me really find my style as a photographer. It’s really hard for me express myself in words alot of the time, but i find, that with a camera, I can show the world exactly what im thinking and exactly what i see when i shoot something.
Note : The photo above was shot on the roof of Danny’s Kensington apartment. No major photoshopping, just minor adjustments in camera raw, then in cs4, i added a deep red filter, and converted to black and white, really boosting the clouds and darkening the sky to give an almost “IR” effect.
the look
Originally uploaded by Stéphane Lam
Just to add to my last post, here is a portrait i shot with the nifty fifty.
Shot at : 1/30 second, f2.8, -1 EV
Filed under: Hardware
I borrowed the “nifty fifty” off a friend of mine a few weeks ago, to give it a whirl and see if it’s something i would use….
First off, this is a great lens for the price.
That said, it’s a $150 lens!
Don’t get me wrong, this lens produced some pretty sharp images, like the one above, but just don’t expect great construction for your $150….
There is no manual focus override, which means you have flick a switch to get into MF…. That being said, the motor isn’t strong enough to handle the focusing ring being turned while in AF. The upside of this cheap construction is weight. This lens is a featherweight compared to anything else out there, and it’s small enough to fit in any bag as a spare.
This nifty lens was great when used for portraits in low-light situations (I’ll post a photo soon!) but showed a lot of chromatic aberration when shooting in well lit scenarios, wide open at f1.8.
Bottom line, i would recommend this for any entry-level photographer wanting to do portraits on a cropped-sensor camera.
Next, I’ll try the 50mm 1.4 USM.
