Tina and I headed to a couple of small towns around Ottawa. She had her Nikon and I was armed with my new Canon 5D Mark II, which is a full frame camera and gives me such wonderfully wide angles. You can see her shots at her flickr set. They give me great ideas on how I can look at things from another perspective because they’re so different from mine, approaching shots from closer ranges and composing with more diagonal angles.
This is by far my favourite shot (above), and I’ll probably get a large print of it when I have the money. There’s a series of acrylic paintings by Ken Vincent at the Koyman Galleries in Ottawa, and I’ve always wanted this one in particular because the colours and the moody clouds speak of pure emotion to me, and I never believed I was capable of capturing such moments with my last camera1. The price — $2300 for a 28“x61” painting — had always held me back, but now I’m confident I can get that elusive look I’ve been trying to capture, myself.
It was the perfect day and time of year for photography. The weather was very mild (though it got colder as the sun was setting), and the fall colours made everything both dead and vibrant.
These pictures don’t do justice to the way they look full-size on a large monitor. There are so many tiny details and textures that are lost when downsized.
Tina getting a similar shot to the one I took above.
I like how you can just make out the reflection of the sky on the water, through the stalks.
Tina looking very cold.
I like how the shadow on the road implies that someone’s there, without being too overt about it.
We got a lot of looks from small town people. All white. I guess they weren’t used to the Asian-Persian combo.
Obligatory. I love fall leaves, so even though I already have pictures very similar to this, I never get tired of taking more.
You can just make out Tina on the right there.
We found a pond with a tiny island FILLED with Canadian geese, as well as a gazebo that took up about half the area of said island, in the small town of Casselman. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the right lenses to capture it. This is what we got instead.
I love the way her slender body bends in this photo, against the remnants of sunset in the background. Best viewed on black, so you can just make out her shoes and the yellow road stripe in the bottom. Just above, the moon makes an appearance.
- A Canon Digital Rebel Xt [↩]
I honestly like photo 1 best. I love the treatment you’ve done on these photos.
Tina is so darn adorable with that crazy mop of hair. I wish I could meet you both one day!
The more I look at the first one, the more I like it too.
And yeah, Tina totally put her hands up to her hair to get the frumpage out, just about a second before that photo was shot. I don’t think it worked. :D
The sky in both is absolutely unbelievable. I wish I could create images like this.
You can! You have the equipment now, and post-processing is free.
My favorite shot is the one of the stop sign. I love the clarity of the blue color the sky is displaying and i love how the color of the rust on the stop sign meshes so well with the blue sky. Great shot! All of them. :-)
I find that one is frequently an overlooked shot. A lot of people don’t notice it because it’s not as dramatic as the other ones, but a rusty stop sign can reveal a lot in itself (in this case, I think one can tell what kind of ordinance budget this town has). Good for you for picking that one out.
喜欢你的照片，你是华裔吧，希望你看得懂这些字，哈哈。
I totally had to Babelfish your comment. Even though I’m Chinese, that’s the only way I understood it. :)
These are all spectacular! It’s amazing what kind of great photos you can get from everyday objects, but at the right angle and lighting, it’s an entirely different thing altogether.
So very true. There are lots of levels of photography to explore, and I try to get the absolute most out of every picture.
Lovely shots. Looks like an enjoyable road trip. Leaves piles by the fence and the one above it might be favorites of mine.
I had initially chosen not to include the ditch because I wasn’t stable enough for it to be a clear shot, but at lower sizes, it’s hard to notice.
These are gorgeous.… makes me want to go back up there! We are as close to fall as we’ll get right now, which means a few palm fronds fall off in the wind. Whoopee. Just not the same.
Not the same at all, I bet. There’s nothing like a Canadian fall.
EXCITING!
sorry; a bit slow to catch up with your posts. have been busy.. but awesome shots, jeff!
Thanks!