Fishing Part Two

As promised I have pictures of the fisher men. Ive got two of Gary (my husband) and two of our fishing buddy.

As you can see, our friend has a Cannon camera. I've taken a few pictures with it just for fun. I think it has cooled my icy feeling towards Cannon users. I know I'll always be a Nikon girl but it was fun to see how a Cannon works. I'll be showing off some of those photos soon. But I'm thinking my next post will be photos from our second day of fishing. I may even make a second post today because I've been so far behind in posting!

The Bathroom Project

Two years ago I started taking pictures of my friends in the bathroom. As weird as it sounds, its really not that weird. I only ever did two such photo shoots and then didn't touch the photos until now. Now I've got my favorites photoshopped and posted. Took long enought! Geeze. Any way, I played around with some text and a whole bunch of other stuff.



Is it horrible that I hope that through posting pictures of my friends I will create interest in my photography through their friends looking at my posts?

This Boy Is Amazing

The title says it all. Aidan is just a great guy. He has so many different sides and I think these pictures capture two sides of him perfectly. Aidan can be so playful, funny and cheeky. But he also has a very serious, clam deep side. After leaving Ottawa his mum sent me an email saying that he kept asking when I was coming back. That made me miss him terribly. Working on these photos brought back all the good memories I shared with him earlier this year.

Double Exposures and Overlapping

So a great feature of the Diana Mini is you can easily make double exposures and overlap your images. I did it by accident in the beginning because I didn't read the manual. With the Diana Mini you can take a double exposure really easily. There is actually nothing stopping you from taking a double exposure every time. So if you forget to wind the film forward, you can continue to shoot over the same frame over and over and over! And also, if you don't advance the film all the way to the next frame there is nothing stopping you from taking another exposure, thus overlapping your images.

That is just the begining of the fun though. Cause with the Diana Mini you have the option to shoot in a square format or a vertical rectangular format. And if you don't shoot a blank frame in between when switching formats you'll get overlapping. So really if you don't think about what you are doing, each and every time you shoot, you can accidentally get overlapping or a double exposure!

Now that I've gotten used to how the camera works I want to use those techniques artistically. That being said, these ones aren't that fantastic but I wanted to show them off any way.

Double exposure of Leah eating apple sauce.


Double exposure of Aidan and his train set.


Double exposure of Aidan and I.


Pancakes overlapping the parking lot across the street.


Aidan in two different chairs.

My First Roll of Film With My New Diana Mini!

So here it is! My first roll of film developed from my Diana Mini. I was so excited when I bought it that I hardly read the instruction manual before putting this roll in. That led to a few interesting overlaps and heads being slightly chopped. I'll upload those later, but for now I really wanted to show off my favorite portraits. Most of them are of Aidan, my best friend's three year old fire cracker. He was a great subject to shoot (though he was more interested in taking photos himself!)

Just goofing around in the living room.


Eating sweet potato fries.


Eating a hot dog (can you tell he likes to eat?)


Just Leah.

Leah and I.

Aidan fell asleep sitting on the ground! Poor little guy.


Playing the piano.


Playing a steel drum ... I think he is going to be a musician!

Just Screwing Around With Photoshop .....

Here are two pictures I took of Gary while on vacation in Vegas. I had fun just playing around with them in photoshop, cause I haven't been doing that a lot lately. I forgot how much fun it could be!!!


This was taken enroute to Vegas. I love how the green sign and his eyes are at the same level.


I just like how his tattoo looks here and the colors are brilliant!

Me and my baby

Just put together these two cute photos of me and my fiance Gary. Love you babe!

Irakli and Nick

These expressions are priceless!

Lunch for One

Another from my roll of film for the Republic of Georgia.

The Two Sides of Tina aka ... the Tinas

Taking a bit of a break on the Vic Falls photos for something a little fun.
I found these photos on an old roll of film that I have been carrying around since I was living in the Republic of Georgia. We have a little naught and a little nice.

As a side note, I almost want to label this as wild life, cause Tina is a bit wild.

Contrasty Pool Shot

Another shot from my pool photo shoot with Carolina. I went for a darker more vibrant look with this one. I love that with this photo shoot we did so many different poses with so many different wardrobes. Now I have so many different photos to choose from. But I should set up another photo shoot soon so I have some new material to work with.

Surprise Engagement Portraits

This past weekend I had the pleasure of photographing Kendrick & Thembi's engagement. It truly was a magical event. Thembi had no idea that Kendrick was going to propose that night. He told her that they were just going to go out for a special dinner and I was coming along because I needed to take some photos for one of my classes. So I was able to set up my equipment and move around freely while they had dinner and was able to caputre their special moment when it came at desert time.
After the cat was out of the bag we went outside and did some portraits. Here is one set I put together ... Congratulations Kendrick and Thembi!!!!

Photoshoot by the Pool

I had Carolina come over to my new apartment to do a photoshoot by the pool. I will be working on the photos slowly but surely, as I am very busy with other things at the moment. Here is one of the shots!

Studio Work From B&W Course

Here are three of my favorite shots, done at the National College of Photography's Studio. This was for my Black and White class where we developed film and did our own printing. But these photos were done with my digital camera.

Fashion by Accident

This photo was actually a test shot for one of the locations we used. I didn't end up liking the spot so we moved on. But afterwards when we were looking through the shots I thought this one looked rather sassy. She has the whole sexy squint going on. So I did some photoshop and I think it turned out really good!

Headshots

On Sunday I had the pleasure of photographing Kirsten. She is a musical theater student from USA and she wanted me to take some headshots for her just before returning to school. I had so much fun working with her. We did a variety smiling and serious poses in a couple of different locations. Here are three of my favorites.

Self Promotion

A photo taken in the Republic of Georgia by my father .. photoshopping done by me.