The Simple Portrait
You can’t beat the classic 50mm lens when it comes to making an intimate portrait. This one was taken using the 50mm 1.4 EF lens from Canon. Its quite a jump in price from the “plastic fantastic” 50mm 1.8 but worth the jump if you can afford it. The 50mm 1.8 can be used to [...]
Beach Boy
Now to try and remember what I did on this one… I think the composition and expression was pretty good but it did look a little flat. The option to go black and white was there but that lovely gold tone was too good to lose! So, I took it into Nik Color Efex Pro [...]
A Week on Camp
A week at school camp was a real blast and now I’m wading through all of those photos. The camp was for what we in New Zealand call “year 7 and 8” (about 12-13 age range). It’s almost of the end of the school year here and this will be the last major event/camp these [...]
Smile!
There’s just something about a smile… so much said with no words. I like when the smile is captured on the photo without ever saying those words – “smile!” I seem to remember reading that smiling in photos is a fairly modern thing; perhaps it started after the Second World War. Here’s a family photo [...]
