Malene Show Pt 2

Here's one of the models posing for me at after the show. Very happy with the result.

Malene Grotrian Designs, Ice Water Fashion Event

This is Jenna Fortin business partner of Malene Grotrian, hosting the Ice Water Fashion Event.
Malene is a Vancouver based Fashion Designer. Malene Grotrain Designs

Cupcakes!

Here's a product shot I did of Clever Cupcakes, little mini cupcakes.

GPS photos!

Well I got to enjoy three of my hobbies today! I went for a mountain bike ride with my Camera, and my new GPS! So if you have a GPS that saves tracks, (a digital breadcrumb trail of where you went). there are a few options that once back home you can run a program that matches the EXIF data from your photos, to the closest time stamp on your track and saves the GPS coordinates into your photos EXIF file!



Why is this cool? With sites like flickr, you can click on the photo, see where it was taken on google maps. Great for trips, when you travel abroad and take a million photos. Now you can see that, that great sunset was in Madrid not Barcelona, or for mtn bikers with a few too many knocks on the head you can create maps WITH pictures of the trail head, so when the little map says take the third left and there's a picture of what the third left looks like, its pretty hard to mess up!

I am using a Lightroom plug in by Jeffrey Friedl as one of my trial methods for embedding this info. This is a donation ware product and I use his Flickr plugin as well.

The other is with GPICSYNC a freeware product.

I don't have much of an informed opinion to make about these two software pieces as I've just scratched the surface of this new addition to my toolkit. Stay tuned for more!

GPS embedded photo on Flickr

3rd Place!

its a short post but I just found out I was awarded a 3rd place finish in the Pentaxforums.com panorama photo contest. The image is the Vancouver skyline seen in the header of this blog! I'm pretty stoked!

Moto Photo

This photo was taken on a day trip up to Squamish on the motorcycle. Stopped at the local Starbucks to refuel and took a few snaps of the bikes in the lot. I used a wide aperture, 2.8 and focused on the side cover as I wanted that to be the focal point. I then desaturated the photo to give it the vintage feel. Enjoy!

So I've been having a lot of fun learning some strobe techniques with my new wireless triggers, but I've also been busy learning things with photoshop.  Here's a little something I created tonight after reading through a tutorial.