Friday Flickr Forum: January 05, 2007

Thank you Mike for your kind words and choosing 2 of my photographs. My New Year's resolution for 2006 was to take many more photos of people and my New Year Resolution for 2007 is push techniques, skills and composition into the subconscious and concentrate more on mood and emotion. I think 2007 will be toughfer resolution.

The first image was taken in one of the Brick Works ovens. I was aiming a bit towards an angel (maybe a demon) exiting a pit. Technique wise it is in sepia to hide the fact that my beautiful and brave model Liz had a red nose from putting up with the cold damp musty air. Even though the Brick Works was decontaminated in 2004 it is still a terrible environment to work in.

The second photo was taken at the Winter Solstice Neo-pagan festival held at Kensington Market. As the title says I was late and missed most everything. All the camera phones and digital point and shoot at every event is a signature landmark for 2006.

I took a similar shot with a film camera using iso 3200 B&W film but this color shot at iso 1600 after some careful filtering looks much better. It still has some digital noise but I don't think it distracts from the image.

Ryan

"Second Period" was shot at a Maple Leafs game on December 5th. This was a few minutes before the start of the second period (which explains the empty seats), and the players and referees had just come back out to skate around before play resumed.

I've always been a fan of tilt-shift photography, and thought a wide shot of a hockey rink might make an interesting candidate. This is my first attempt at faking a tilt-shift shot... basically it was a result of using the Lens Correction filter and various curve/level/colour adjustments in Photoshop CS. I think the final version turned out alright, but I'd still love to try a real tilt-shift one of these days!

Thanks for choosing this shot Mike, glad you liked it.

Hey Natalie, is that a cross-processed film shot?

Yes, that shot was xpro'd Kodak slide film.

I'd like to thank Mike for the honour of having one of my images selected for today. Given that it's about the best horse in my personal stable, I'm not expecting to rate this kind of company again. :)<br>
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HDR IR Victoria Day was assembled from six images from two different cameras. The fireworks were actually taken later, a little closer to the lake, with a Canon PowerShot S80, originally in colour. The basic image of the downtown, as seen from a position overlooking the Gardiner a bit west of Dufferin, is made up of a bracketed exposure of +2, 0, and -2 EV taken with a Canon PowerShot G1 I had modified about a year ago to record infrared images, and then combined in Photomatix to produce a high dynamic range image. The fireworks were then composited with the HDR image in Photoshop.<br>
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I remember it being a distressingly cold Victoria Day... ironically, colder than it's been lately here in early January.

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