Day 341, 365 Day Project

Tonight was the last shooting night for my classes at SAIT for this year. I was demonstrating the use of colour gels on the background and one of my students sat for a quick couple of images at the start of the class. The original image was shot with the Canon 7D, 24-70 f2.8 @ f8 and 57mm, 1/125 sec at 100 ISO. Once I returned home I downloaded the image and cropped it then uploaded to my iPhone as I knew I wanted to use Snapseed once again. I used the vintage filter, style 1 to soften the skin a bit. Then I used Real Camera+ to add the frame. After saving the image I uploaded the image to my computer and re-sized it for the Internet before posting it here.

Day 340, 365 Day Project

So with all the Christmas decorations up it was only a matter of time before one found it's way in to the collection of images. I was at the Varsity Community Association waiting for Cool and his Jazz dance class to finish up. They have all their decorations around the facility and one that caught my eye was a wreath on one of the doors. The first shot I took was fairly boring, but I did not give up on it. I moved the iPhone around it looking at various angles and crops before settling on the above photo of the poinsettia flower in the wreath. Then in Snapseed I did a centre focus and adjust some grunge before adding the frame for the final result.

Day 339, 365 Day Project

Another night at SAIT teaching my students in the Advanced Lighting Class. While moving between the two rooms in which we set up studios for the students to work in I saw the cleaning ladies supply cart in the hall. Immediately I knew that the spray bottles could make an interesting subject for today's image. Quickly I shot a couple of frames and went back in to watch what my students were doing. A couple of them have been following my 365 Day Project so I thought I would share with them how I go about finishing the photo. Using Snapseed I quickly add a bit of softening and texture with the grunge filter and added the frame. This is one thing I like about teaching at SAIT, besides sharing the info in the lighting class I can also share other photographic ideas with the hopes it will inspire them as well.

Day 338, 365 Day Project

After shoveling the snow for the second time today I noticed the berries on the Neighbours tree with little hats of snow on them. Using the iPhone in the Instgram app I shot a few frames. I like this one the best for the richness and the contrast of the colours. I used the Lomo-fi filter which added in a slight more saturation and a border, but otherwise it is a pretty straight shot.

Day 337, 365 Day Project

Today is a day for family, rest and recovery. We went out early this morning and took Cool and Luke to see Santa at Northland Village Mall. This year it was by booking and there was no photographer, it was take your own. So I shot using the Canon 7D, 24-70 f2.8 @ f4, 1/125 sec, 800 ISO with the Canon 580EX II flash and Gary Fong collapsible light sphere. After the boys made some crafts and had a snack we headed home where I downloaded the files and then choose the one I wanted to use, cropped it in Photoshop and the uploaded back to my iPhone. From there I used PhotoForge2 to add a frame and then copied it back to my computer and posted it here. Now it is off to trim the tree, decorate the house and have a peaceful day with the family.

Day 336, 365 Day Project

The last four days seem to have been a busy one leading up to today's Arts & Crafts fair at my boy's school. Between picking up prints, matting, teaching, delivering flyer's about the show and all, I have barely had 5 hours sleep each night. So today's image is a simple one, a record shot of my table with prints for sale. All but three were taken for this 365 Day Project and a large number were done with the iPhone. I was very pleased by the resulting prints and had many compliments on my work during the day. However, as is usually the case with photographs, sales were small but it has always been this way. Back in my Art College days when we had the Christmas show and sale the glass blowing, ceramics, print making departments always made big money. Photography was lucky if we broke $500 people would like the work but happily go on and but from the other departments. So it did not surprise me much that this happened today and Franky it doesn't bother me. Today was more about participating and helping the school and I had a booth just for the fun of it. Cool assisted me all day and had a great time. So now I can go to sleep happy and content because I am happy with the way my images looked.

Day 335, 365 Day Project

In to the home stretch now, last month of the year. Today Luke had swimming lessons and usually the pool is busy and there is always movement in the water. For some reason when we arrived the pool was empty and the water was calm and still. I saw the reflection of the slide and the wall in the pool and immediately jumped to my feet to get the shot before the kids entered the pool for their lessons. I find with the iPhone I really like to angle the camera to make the image more dynamic and I was pleased how the reflections of the clock and other pool accessories came out. While waiting for Luke's lesson to end I brought the file in to Snapseed looking for the appropriate amount of filter effect to give what I was looking for. I felt this grunge effect toned down a fair amount worked best.