Day 320, 365 Day Project

I structure my SAIT classes to give as much time for the students to shot as I can. So after a lecture on the lighting style for the night I usually take a few shots of our subjects to get them warmed up and show the student's some examples. This usually means I only take a few frames on the evening and tonight was no exception. This image of the lovely Tatiana was taken with the Canon 7D and the 24-70 f2.8 lens @ f 8, 1/125 sec and 100 ISO. Two Balcar MiniZ lights with umbrellas were used to give even lighting across the scene.

Once I returned home I downloaded the images and liked the classical feel of the image and knew I wanted to do a little post processing work. I did a little cleaning in Photoshop then saved the file and downloaded to my iPhone. I have really settled on Snapseed as my go to app for post processing work and knew I wanted to add a little Vintage filter to the shot. Once I found the look I wanted I then added the frame and finished the image.

Day 319, 365 Day Project

While waiting for Cool during his Choir practice I saw this line-up of sinks in the bathroom and was just taken by the symmetry of the look. Lined up the shot with my iPhone and then brought the image into Snapseed where I did some color correcting, cropping, centre focus adjustment, some grunge and a frame.

Day 318, 365 Day Project

Two images from tonight's Advanced Lighting class at SAIT. Was showing my students how to mix flash/studio strobe with hot lights, otherwise known as pop and drag. Both images were taken with the Canon 7D and 24-70 f2.8 lens but with very different settings. The top image was at f8 @ 1/8 sec at 100 ISO. Lighting was a Balcar MiniZ head and Larson 18" x 48" soft box as the main light and a Smith Victor Hot Light through a card board "Cookie" on the back ground. We asked Rachael to jump and the strobe froze her in mid air yet the drag bled through where her legs were moving.

The bottom image of Holly was shot at f5.6 and 1/0.3 sec using a 3' x 4' Larson Soft box on an Alien Bee 1600 head with the power turned down as the main light and a garage work light and a cardboard "Cookie" on the background.

Both images were processed in photoshop and the frames added with OnOne's PhotoFrame 4.6 software.

Day 317, 365 Day Project

I have this old Leonard refrigerator in the basement that I store all my film in. It was painted red long before I got it and I always liked the character of it. So today it became the subject for the project. Shot with the iPhone and processed in Snapseed.

Day 316, 365 Day Project

The piano makes for a lovely subject with the contrast of Black and White and the reflective wood. Shot this with the iPhone and then in Snapseed I used the centre focus to change the depth of field and added a frame.

Day 315, 365 Day Project

We recently added to our collection of Elephant statuettes. This one we picked up at a shop here in Calgary and Lysa likes to hang some of the boy's rosaries on it. Seeing this I thought I could make an interesting photo, so I took it down stairs to the studio. Being that the figurine is of dark wood I choose a bright orange background that I have and then shot the elephant using the available light with the iPhone. Today I decided to use Pictureshow as the app for post processing as I wanted to do minimal work other than adding a a bit of vignetting and a different style of frame.

Day 314, 365 Day Project

Today we got ourselves a piano. Lysa has been wanting us to get one so the boy's can learn how to play and Cool can added that to his singing. It has been a long time since I have played but I hope I can pick it up again as well. As the mover's brought it in to the house I knew that I wanted to use it as the subject for my image for today. I opened it up and reached inside with the iPhone and snapped a few images. The first couple I only had the room lights on and for the last few I brought in a floor lamp to give more illumination. Although I liked the images with the lamp I felt a strong feel for this dark and moody image from one of the first frames. I did very little processing in Snapseed other then a little brightening and adding the frame.