It's All In The Angle Of The

I have shown photos here where I've held the camera at an angle before. It's kind of a fun thing however it's something I still do with a little trepidation. There are different reasons for doing this, it can create tension in a photograph, it can be arty (wedding photographers do it a lot), or (my favourite) it can be just to fit the damn subject in the damn frame. This photo fits in the first and last category I think. Well maybe the second as well. The trepidation comes from leaving the thought that a horizon has to be horizontal. Generally when I look through the frame for a shot like this I start horizontal and as I look the idea will come to tilt and I'll angle the camera till it looks right.

This is with the 71-210 at 130mm 1/320th sec f4 iso 100

That Leap

Sometimes watching birds I wonder if they are having fun flying. The little chickadees darting through the trees or eagles soaring high. Are they just using flight as a function to get somewhere or to hunt for food? It seems amazing that they couldn't be performing those aerobatics just for the heck of it. I don't think this young fellow was leaving because he was afraid, he just wanted to show off a bit, make me jealous. 

 The 70-210 at 210mm 1/640th sec f4 iso 100

Eyes open

The past while I have hardly had the camera out. I was considering that when I spotted this moth on the window. I noticed how the light glowed through his/her wings and thought that would be great to capture. It took a few tries as although the background is totally blurred out it played a very important part in the image. When I started taking photo's I was standing in front of the window looking up at the moth. The background although blurred was white at the top and went grey at the bottom. Didn't look quite right. As I moved around (getting up on the kitchen counter) I noticed different colour and light quality in each photo. This one had an apple tree behind it about 40 ft out. The light still glowed nicely and had a nice green tint to it in my mind. I even had a look at it in black and white but the colour won me over.  

 I used the 100mm macro 1/80th sec f4 iso 100

Lost And

While on our photo walk Dar and I spotted an abandoned bicycle in the bushes. We pondered for a moment what it's story was and how it got here. Spotting something hidden and out of place like this always leaves me with a sense of the mystery. Of course, cameras in hand it was definitely a photo op. This is what I came away with. 

Taken with the 50mm 1/80th sec f3.5 iso 100

A Fan

I'm not a hockey fan. I was near Rogers Arena today. It was quite the sight hours before the game, the sea of Canuck jerseys, the bumper to bumper traffic with most of the cars flying Canuck flags. I got out of there of course, I'll put the game on tv. Sitting outside amongst all this I happened to look up and noticed this one flag on a highrise. It was so small but it stood out. Good luck tonight.

I shot this with my 100mm macro 1/250th sec f8 iso 100

Shoot Through

My day with Dar did have a bit of a nautical theme as we were in Steveston. We went by a yard with nets, floats and all kinds of fishing stuff. We didn't have enough time to see if we could go in and walk around this day so we decided to try some photo's through the chain link fence. As I walked to the fence I wasn't seeing anything but a bunch of floats and rope. I couldn't see a point of interest especially with the chain link fence it was leaning against. Until I got right up to it. I had the lens hood pressed against the fence and found this shot. I did take a couple more and perhaps I should have stayed a while going up and down the fence but I had this and I was happy. We had other places to go.

This was with the 50mm 1/1600th sec at f1.7 to keep that dof shallow. iso 100

Rephoto

Dar posted a photo of me taking a photo the other day. Here is one of her on the same day, a short while later, taking a photo of a statue while another statue appears to be guiding her along. 

 I used my 17mm at 1/320th sec f3.5 iso 100