Monthly Archives: February 2008

alicia + dave

on a beautiful February day in Hamilton?

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soooo… this misconception started long ago

the marketing angle was the same then as it is now... "any school-boy or girl can make good pictures..." arrgghhh... This ad is from 100 years and I see it as ambiguous & misleading now as it was then. I suppose if you define what ...

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Moonrise over Hernandez – "a romantic/emotional moment in time"

Adams and wanted to take a second shot because he realized he had "an unusual photograph which deserved a duplicate negative." But he was a few seconds too late! "The sunlight passed from the white crosses." It can be very frustrating for a photographer to miss an expression, a movement, or the ...

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luck, skill or chance favours the prepared?

been a few days since I have written. so on this St. Valentine's day for '08, and as befits my nature, here's an entry about humour, skill and wedding photography. Sort of a perfect Lorne trifecta. To me, wedding photography can be much like sports photography. For the most part, you can't control what is ...

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on stereotypes

this image is offered to contrast "the difference between man and woman" (it should be sub-titled: "the power of Photoshop to distort reality") at first glance, it's perhaps funny, cute and just a joke. The kind you find all over. But it is a stereotype. ...

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