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2012-02-01 Accora Village Bed Race

2012-02-07T22:53:09Z

Winterlude is something great to experience during winter in Ottawa, and the Accora Village Bed Race organized by my Kiwanis Club of Ottawa is a great event. Wonderful weather, with very enthusiastic participants and volunteers produced lots of chance for photos.

2012-01-20 Tyson in the Studio

2012-01-23T16:23:58Z

Tyson was a lot of fun in the studio where I had a chance to follow up on some high key stuff from a recent photo seminar.

2012-01-19 MBNA Hoops Classic

2012-01-23T11:58:45Z

The MBNA Hoops Classic at Scotiabank Place gave me another chance to work on low light photography. This was my first round with the Canon 5D at ISO 5000, and the results were pretty good.

The womens game was a close one with Carleton 55 uOttawa 59, while the mens game was more one sided with Carleton 74 uOttawa 34.

2012-01-05 Buenos Aires and Patagonia

2012-01-20T14:21:14Z

This was my 6th visit to Buenos Aires and Patagonia, and there always seem to be new things to shoot, or the same things in news ways.

2011-09-30 Wedding of Ray and Teresa

2011-11-12T19:46:59Z

My friend Shafiq and I teamed up to do the wedding of Ray and Teresa in Toronto. The weather was a little tricky, however the whole wedding party handled it in stride, and everything came off wonderfully. I have a small gallery here.

2011-09-17 Kassandra and Chuck

2011-11-12T19:39:40Z

I had a wonderful chance to photograph the wedding of my neice Kassandra to Chuck, with the help of my friend Shafiq. The wedding took place at Christie Lake Camp, and for mid September the weather was very cooperative. I have posted a small gallery of images here.

2011-10-22 Ottawa Zombie Walk

2011-10-23T00:49:21Z

The annual zombie walk in Ottawa produced some very inventive costumes and makeup, and a whole lot of people who were not afraid of the camera.

2011-10-08 York vs Gee Gees

2011-10-09T17:55:17Z

Its not often that we get a 30°C day in Ottawa at the start of October, so it made for a beautiful day to shoot an OUAA football between the York Lions and the Ottawa University Gee Gees. The final score was 65-12 for Ottawa. Thx to Gord Weber for arranging the access.

2011-10-08 RA Fall Challenge

2011-10-09T16:03:43Z

Each year the RA Photo Club runs a one day photo challenge in the fall. Members go to the same location, and have 24hours to take photos. Any member who wants to submit photos can, and then the same members vote on their favourite images. Here is my first cut at selecting 5 images.

This year I tried a few new techniques for me, including a tripod ;-) along with a ring flash and my new Canon 5D II.

2011-07-29 Slovakia vs Canada, Low light lessons

2011-08-05T02:43:13Z

Shooting sports indoors is always a challenge, and a trick or two helps to handle the low light:

I set the ISO to 2500 instead of the normal 3200. It turns out that 2500 is an 'even' multiple of the native ISO on the 7D so it has much less noise than 2000 or 3200.
I manually set aperture and shutter to speed to be one stop under what the camera wanted allowing a little faster shutter and a little more depth of field. Since I was shooting RAW I was able to push it one stop in the RAW convertor bring the exposure to the right level in post.
Since it was a mixed light temperature environment I manually set the white balance, and also adjusted in post when an adjustment to all the images.

The work in post took a little longer, however I was much happier with the results.