Something a little different.

So I'm trying a new technique.

I got this magazine and it had some stock photos in it. Lots of cool stuff. There is this one photoshop technique to make it look like your subject is disappearing into smoke or the aether or nothing or something like evaporating...

It looked cool, but I didn't have a good picture to use with it. Part of the problem of not having studio quality lighting and backdrops. Should be relatively easy to do in retrospect though, now having done the picture...

Anything taken with a relatively uniform background could easily have this effect reproduced.. and if you really wanted a background you would just have to spend a lot more time healing and cropping the subject out of it.

I hadn't had the chance to shoot much lately though.. working 11 hours shifts at work and what not...

Christmas in the retail world is a wonderful idea... unfortunately it can be very draining.

Here is the picture though.

It was a basic picture, just a portrait of the woman. I've done all the post processing on it.

November in Canada

November is one of the more interesting months we have. Animals are putting food away, the fall colours are in full force at the start and often all but gone by the end. We may or may not see snow..

I feel great to have discovered at long last somewhere that features a full compliment of fauna to capture. There is a conservation area in the south end of Whitby, which for a modest parking fee of $1-$4 (depending on your stay) you have an abundance of things to photograph. The park was replete with ducks, geese, chickadees, chipmunks, squirrels, even a heron.

We didn't venture in deep this time. We didn't need to, or have time for that on this trek, as we were required at church to take more head shots.

I haven't had much time to edit them yet, but there are three that I've touched and cropped and I'll share them here with you.

I'm sure you'll recognize all of the subjects. They are nothing unusual. Just closer and more candid than sometimes they'll let you get.