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51/365 They've Said it a Billion Times and They'll Say it Again
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Buy film not megapixels, something you'll hear a lot of film buffs say. Can't say I'm fully on that boat though cause as much as I like shooting my film cameras and what not, digital has its place and its not going away. Also even though for most of us 10mp would be more than pretty much everything we do good old marketing makes us believe we really need a 36mp camera. Hell if there was an a900 that was 12mp I would have gotten that cause 24mp is frankly quite a lot. But I digress, today I hung out in Toronto with Tyler (check out his Flickr here, I've said it before but he is a very talented portrait photographer) and we basically hung out talked cameras and did some street photography. Though not a lot cause frankly it was quite cold and windy today, plus the complete overcast sky doesn't really do it for me, I like shooting on sunny days for street photography.
While we were out and about we were looking for a decent place for me to shoot todays portrait. Tyler shot in this really cool hallway before and asked him where it was. We checked the place out while it was still light out, it looked pretty cool but I wanted to see how it looked when it's darker. So we just hung around a Starbucks for a good hour or so before heading back there, and it looked much nicer in there. Originally I tried shooting with my 135mm but after the first couple of test shots I wanted to see more of the background and switched over to my 35mm lens. Shooting close and wide definitely looked better here since we were able to see much more of the background. Fun part about this place is the colours keep changing and plenty of people walk by here. So it was quite the waiting game, took several shots each with a different colour background, even with it white and frankly the red and orange seemed to work the best here. Also this was the first shot with the 35mm, right after people came in and we moved out of the way. Sadly I wish I was more centred with this shot, the others after this were but this was the best shot. Didn't want to do the whole copy, paste, flip and layer mask thing for this either so I just left it as is.
Todays title comes from one of my new favourite songs "Under the Cover of Darkness" by The Strokes.
51/365 They've Said it a Billion Times and They'll Say it Again
Press L to view larger and on black!
Buy film not megapixels, something you'll hear a lot of film buffs say. Can't say I'm fully on that boat though cause as much as I like shooting my film cameras and what not, digital has its place and its not going away. Also even though for most of us 10mp would be more than pretty much everything we do good old marketing makes us believe we really need a 36mp camera. Hell if there was an a900 that was 12mp I would have gotten that cause 24mp is frankly quite a lot. But I digress, today I hung out in Toronto with Tyler (check out his Flickr here, I've said it before but he is a very talented portrait photographer) and we basically hung out talked cameras and did some street photography. Though not a lot cause frankly it was quite cold and windy today, plus the complete overcast sky doesn't really do it for me, I like shooting on sunny days for street photography.
While we were out and about we were looking for a decent place for me to shoot todays portrait. Tyler shot in this really cool hallway before and asked him where it was. We checked the place out while it was still light out, it looked pretty cool but I wanted to see how it looked when it's darker. So we just hung around a Starbucks for a good hour or so before heading back there, and it looked much nicer in there. Originally I tried shooting with my 135mm but after the first couple of test shots I wanted to see more of the background and switched over to my 35mm lens. Shooting close and wide definitely looked better here since we were able to see much more of the background. Fun part about this place is the colours keep changing and plenty of people walk by here. So it was quite the waiting game, took several shots each with a different colour background, even with it white and frankly the red and orange seemed to work the best here. Also this was the first shot with the 35mm, right after people came in and we moved out of the way. Sadly I wish I was more centred with this shot, the others after this were but this was the best shot. Didn't want to do the whole copy, paste, flip and layer mask thing for this either so I just left it as is.
Todays title comes from one of my new favourite songs "Under the Cover of Darkness" by The Strokes.