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Extreme Winter continues: photos from different parts of my country that I think epitomize winter. This morning's offering is from New Year's Day 2008, when I was visiting friends in rural Quebec after my mom died a couple of weeks earlier. I flew to Montreal, rented a car, did what had to be done, then went to hang out with people I'd known for many years. Decades.
The night before I left, it snowed. Heavily. Irenée had to work in the morning. Their driveway is a hundred yards long, and he made it passable. Then another ton of snow fell overnight, and we had to use shovels in the morning to dig ourselves out. The backroad drive to the nearest highway was an adventure in my rented Toyota Yaris, but I managed to stay out of the ditches.
At the time I was living on the west coast, where sometimes ice freezes in puddles and some winters there is snow. This was reminiscent of my childhood in Quebec, and I didn't mind it at all. When you live in a place like this, you just deal with it.
For this photo, I somehow focused through the falling snow and popped a flash. I was using one of the worst lenses Nikon ever made, the long forgotten 18-135mm for DX bodies. It is so totally forgotten that Photoshop doesn't even have it listed, so I can't make automated lens corrections during processing. Nice focal range; mediocre performance and image quality. Eventually I lost it when it rolled into a tide pool: I retrieved it but the salt water ensured it would never work again. What a relief!
Photographed near Danville, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2008 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Hand held speed light set to slave, red color gel on strobe for background and soft box on strobe camera right for fill...
slight light room edits for cropping, highlights and contrast....
I got bored at work again.
Thought Flash needed some armor, but not have it too bulky like in Injustice. Something more tight fighting and streamlined as to make him go as fast as possible with the least amount of drag.
So if you haven't noticed yet I recently deleted my Flash I posted on Friday. The reason for that is that I want to properly start a new Flash series, (With origin story, etc.) So I am planning out a new Flash series (Even thought the last series was like 1 issue) I hope you understand. New Flash series coming soon! Probably mid/end of this week maybe delayed to next weekend.
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Update 2/06/20: Looks likely this wood duck had migrated on, happy I got the photos of while it was here even if I took too many. :)
Still waiting for sun but had to grab a bunch of photos of the visiting wood duck even though a very heavily overcast morning with flat light. All are cropped and have noise that erodes detail but saving just in case it leaves. :) Hoping to get closer at some point but it is very skittish. Sorry for so many of the same wood duck. :) More to come.
I have been doing some portrait stuff recently and thought I Would share some with you guys as I haven't been on Flickr for a while.
Ive been buying props for my photography and as I love the film 300 I bought this spartan helmet for about £7.
My son being super slim and hench, posed for me whilst I took some shots.
Im really pleased with this shot as the helmet to me looks real but in reality it is plastic.
Inspired by some of my friends flash work, I thought i would spend some time practising. It was selfie time!!!
I was playing with two light set ups. Although I couldn't take this to the street, it will be workable in a modified format.
The key light is camera right in a soft box and a rogue flashbender diffusion panel to get some double diffusion going on. It is at 1/4 power. I have a black board camera left next to me and facing the light to add some shadow to the left hand side of my face (my walls are cream coloured and very close and I was getting too much reflection).
I have got a second flash in a diffusion cap and with a brown gel on it bouncing off the ceiling (I went for brown to match the wood colour of the environment). I have also blocked it from hitting me with a foam board. Power is at 1/8th and this was acting as a light for the background and some general fill.
I used my relatively crappy Nikon D3100 to have something to focus on and to add something else to the picture. I haven't quite got it focused on my eyes but for a selfie it will do.
There was very little done in lightroom, I think I mainly increased the contrast. In photoshop I reduced the hotspot on my forehead, sharpened the image, desaturated a little and increased the blues in the shadows in colour balance.
Quite happy with how it turned out, given the terrible model who had no dress sense and was terrible at being directed :-)
Both flahses were Nissin Di866 v2
- www.kevin-palmer.com - I love seeing lightning under the stars and it doesn't happen very often around here. This storm was producing near continuous flashes and I haven't seen anything like it this year.
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More fun with fill flash. I was playing with the flash speed to both stop those fast beating wings and bring out the colors and irridescence of this Costa's Hummingbird.
Even if I told you I know you won't believe
It's like I see my whole life
Flashing right before me
Model: Veronika
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I havn't posted a BW for a while so I though I would mix it up.
This is Flash Lake, one of the Lightning Lakes in Manning Provincial Park. I took this shot early last year when Kristen and I hiked up to Frosty Mountain.
Hozomeen Mountain can be seen in the distance.