Micro-4/3 Presentation

Busy, busy, busy! First posting in a long time. Need to write up on my big Canon to Nikon switch (a D800 system) and I have lots of images I've shot on the new Nikon, but in the meantime here is an image gallery of Micro-4/3 shots that I've put together. These are random samples of work I have done over the last two years with Micro-4/3 gear and are images that I'll be showing at a presentation on Micro-4/3 cameras this evening for the Burnaby Photographic Society. The above image was shot with the Panasonic GX1 from outside, through glass, with the 14mm f/2.5 pancake lens, then perspective corrected in Adobe Lightroom.

Gallery: Micro-4/3 Presentation Samples

Fireworks! 2012 Celebration of Light: Italy

I shot Italy's fireworks with a 200mm lens from the pier at Jericho Beach. Initially, with the wind at my back, I was hoping to be lucky and have the smoke blowing behind the fireworks again. Not so. As it got dark, the wind totally died down and during the fireworks, the smoke just hung around. Oh well, I got lucky two times out of three this year, so not bad! I had to be very careful to avoid the many really bright flash bursts, to prevent all the smoke from totally blowing out, and it looks as though I did reasonably well that way. I was surprised how many turned out, despite all the smoke, which even added a bit of interest perhaps.

People were treated to an amazing moonrise over the city too, but unfortunately it came just scant minutes before the start of the main fireworks at 10pm, so I did not take the time to put the 2x teleconverter on my 70-200mm, nor did I take the time to shoot an HDR sequence, which would have been very cool. Also, with all the people walking along the pier, the wooden planks were flexing around a lot and my shot would likely not have turned out very sharp either. Lots of atmospheric disturbance too, so even with an HDR, the moon probably would not have been very sharp. Here is the gallery...

Gallery: 2012 Fireworks - Italy

Fireworks! 2012 Celebration of Light: Brazil

What was interesting about the Brazil's fireworks were the many rich golden yellow and orange tones, as well as some teal green. Vietnam seemed to be more primary red / green / blue / white, but Brazil stood out with its more unusual colours. At least, I found them more distinctive in any case. Enjoy...

Gallery: 2012 Fireworks - Brazil

Fireworks! 2012 Celebration of Light: Vietnam

On Saturday, I was out shooting the fireworks from Burrard Bridge once again. Vietnam was the featured country and it was a great show, lots of colour, not much smoke and clear skies.

Gallery: 2012 Fireworks - Vietnam

One thing you might notice, if you've ever photographed fireworks before, is how nicely highlight colour is held in these shots. Bright fireworks streamers still have strong colour and are not just blown-out to white. In addition, even on the above small photo, you'll find lots of detail on the beach, seeing all the people standing there, plus there is still even some blue sky showing. This was at 10:21pm, near the end of the show. Visually, it was getting pretty darn dark but the above photo is showing tremendous dynamic range. You'll probably notice that throughout the rest of the image gallery as well.

Gallery: Devil's Garden, Utah

I took a few minutes in between doing too many other things this weekend (including testing the impressive new Nikon D800) to go through a set of images from my recent road trip to Utah. I thought I'd publish a gallery of images from Devil's Garden, in Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument...

Gallery: Devil's Garden, Grand Staircase - Escalante NM, Utah

Update...

Well, after many good intentions on blogging during my recent Utah trip, circumstances never really allowed for it.

My purchase of a Roam Mobility SIM card for my iPad didn't help much since the majority of the time, I got "No Service" and the few times I did, it was at abysmally slow Edge data speeds. Had I been on my own, I would have made a point to blog when I had WiFi, but I did not want my friend Bill getting impatient while waiting for me to blog...

In any case it was a successful trip, having visited many new spots in Nevada and Utah that I hadn't been to before. More photos to come in the next few days! The above photo is of Sipapu Bridge in Natural Bridges National Monument.

Lastly, I have moved my main sublimephoto website to new servers, so service might be a little dodgy for a day or two. Soon I intend on updating the site as well, but as mentioned in the last post, I am drowning in photos and after shooting about 60 GB on the Utah trip, things are not getting any better!

Drowning in photos...

This blog has been quiet for far too long and I thought I had better post something! I am literally drowning in photos, that's how behind I am. Between spring cleaning at home, moving my website to new servers, a new vehicle, testing tons of new cameras and lenses, trade shows at work and more, I am so behind with processing photos that I don't know where to begin! The above photo was taken with a new Canon EOS-5D Mark III and the 17mm TS-E at Granville Island.

Canon Pixma Pro-1: Profiling and art papers...

On my last Pro-1 blog entry I mentioned that I found that downloaded profiles improved on the many that Canon supplied with the printer. Well, I am picky I suppose and while some profiles I've tried do seem outstanding, like the one I downloaded from Moab Paper's website for their amazing Slickrock Metallic Pearl for example, others could use a little help... especially those for some of the fine art papers. So, I've started the process of generating my own profiles by printing out the high-quality + extended-greys targets for my Spyder3 Print calibrator...

Canon Pixma Pro-1: Wow...

I set up my new Canon Pixma Pro-1 printer tonight. So far I am very impressed with the prints I've gotten after setting up this hulking beast of a printer. In a word... WOW.

More Infrared: Pitt Lake

I was out at Pitt Lake yesterday and lucked out with the clouds and sun. This was perfect weather for dramatic light and infrared photos. These were all shot with my IR-converted GF2 camera again...