Another small panoramic image made on Howe Island. This a re-shoot of a subject that we shot during our workshop with Andree a few weeks ago. I'm liking this a lot more than what I got before, really kind of cool to do these.
Photo of the Week #35
I am extremely late in getting the Photo of the Week up this time around, but I was on the road over the weekend and things have been a bit busy here at home since my return, but getting to it now. A few weeks ago I attended a workshop given by Andree Thorpe, which had an emphasis on creating panorama images. I missed out on a really fantastic one while in Nova Scotia, mostly because of not thinking of it........duh. Anyway, this image is another that I did another evening, it isn't a killer photograph, but it means something to me as this is the view you see when you're on the beach in front of our house. The original image is 12,000 pixels wide and can be easily printed at 50 inches wide. It's made up of 22 frames all stitched together. I hope you enjoy.
Photo of the Week #34
Last season, there were two incidents that I know of that resulted in people going off the rocks at Peggy's Cove. There was a group that was trying to bring awareness about this topic and to make the Municipality of Halifax do something to help protect people. I had mixed emotions about it because while something needs to be done, I also didn't want to have barricades or something like that. The people have always been warned, so it's kind of their own fault in a way if they don't heed the warnings in the first place. Anyway, while there the other day, I did see several big, ugly, face height yellow warning signs. I guess it's the answer, get the message across however you can. I did take note, this is the first ever trip to Peggy's Cove where I did not see several people milling about on the rocks much too close to the water. Maybe it's working?
Photo of the Week #33
Last weekend, I took a workshop presented by Andree Thorpe near Kingston with a group of other people from the Photo Club. It was a weekend workshop consisting of classroom lecture and lots of shooting as well. The biggest thing we were discussing was panorama shooting and editing techniques. Very interesting to me. I didn't get a killer pano at the workshop, but I really didn't expect to when I'd not done it before, but hopefully in the future I'll get some interesting images. This photo was made while at a location on Howe Island, it's a single frame, but I love how the tree breanches frame the old shed.
Photo of the Week #32
I spent this past weekend attending a photography workshop and was so busy that I just didn't get to posting the Photo of the Week on Sunday like usual.
I spend quite a bit of time in Nova Scotia and often find myself in places at the wrong time of day, when the sun makes it almost impossible to get any meaningful image. This day on top of MacKenzie Mountain was bright, "contrasty" sunlight, not at all what a photographer looks for. When traveling, I am often presented with great places at all the wrong times. We can't always wait for the right light to happen, we have to get the picture, or not, it's that simple. Often times, what I might end up with is just a vacation snapshot because of this. This particular day, I got this photograph of Fishing Cove that I originally thought was a "deleter" but with some work on the computer, I found that I actually like it. It isn't a Great image, by any means, but it is a good picture of a place that I love, so well worth it.
