Archive for October 21st, 2008

21 Oct 2008 It All Began At St. Lawrence Hall
Author: Gail |  Category: portraiture  | 7 Comments

a kiss on Church Street

Following on from the preview on October 2, I wanted to show you what I’ve been working on recently: Chad and Haida’s engagement photos from June 29. (I know, it’s been nearly four months. I’m still amateur status, I have to make a living!) My shooting practices have changed since then, I now shoot portraiture completely in RAW format for more control. Earlier this year I discovered that I could manipulate JPEG images in a RAW converter and opted to do that instead of spending more time, energy, and drive space working with the big RAW files (10MB or more). I’ve since completely changed my mind on this reasoning, because when shooting skin tones, mixed lighting and white clothing I need every bit of control I can get to correct exposure problems…

….ZZZZZZZ…. I know, I’m boring you to tears with the technical explanation (but if you’ve got a question, add it as a comment and I’ll answer), let’s see the photos!

full circle

I titled this photo “full circle” because Chad and Haida told me they first met at St. Lawrence Hall, so that’s where we shot their engagement photos. [View Larger On Black]

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21 Oct 2008 Beano’s On Facebook
Author: Gail |  Category: Critters + Creatures, Wacky WWW, Xena & Beano  | 4 Comments

Beano Caster's Facebook profile Months and months ago I was speaking to some people about their photos only being on Facebook, which would require me to reactivate the Facebook profile I had up for all of 10 minutes last year but couldn’t delete, only deactivate. I still don’t want a Facebook profile, but it kept coming up that I couldn’t view people’s photos unless I was on Facebook, so this is my solution. Actually, I set up the profile at the beginning of August but that’s about as far as I got before the summer became even more hectic than it already was.

Today I finally added some photos and filled out Beano’s profile a wee bit, enough so people could figure out who he was and wasn’t just some random cat adding friends through Facebook.

In Real Life, Xena will be the first one to greet you at the door (except in my case, it’s usually Beano). Beano’s not immediately friendly with most strangers, he’s quite shy. Maybe that’s why he’s got the Facebook Profile and not Xena — he needs to build his social network. Xena’s a black cat, though, with zero markings and less recognisable in a tiny photo. When you see Beano’s little tuxedo cat face in the icon, you’d know right away it’s him.

If you know Beano in Real Life, add away! (If you don’t know Beano or ‘The Human’ in Real Life, don’t be offended if Beano doesn’t accept your friend invitation because, like all cats, he’s a pretty choosy feline…)