As Chris mentioned in his blog I got a new camera. I have only taken one course a couple years ago, but I really enjoyed it. Now I just love the freedom of being able to take as many pictures as I want without having to worry about the cost of developing.

I have been wanting to blog about it for a while, but am just getting setup on the mac now where we plan on keeping all our photos.

I have also been planning to scan and post all my favorite shots from my Asia trip, the ones that I call my "National Geographic" shots because they have something special. At least to me they do. Would be interesting to see if you like them too.

It will take a bit of time before I am as familiar with this interface as I was with my old camera, but it is well designed so shouldn't take too long.

I was going to post some photos that I have taken so far, but I don't have access to that directory on the mac yet. (Chris please fix)

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    Here is a shot that I took of one of the Tiger Lilies in our backyard. For this week's Photo Friday 'Orange' challenge


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    We had our first field trip today, starting off at the BCE place, and then heading over to Union Station and the CN Tower. We were focusing on a few things, including the "Rule of Thirds" and "Linear Perspective". We were also working on changing the settings away from the default light metering so that we could better capture the light, and not let the camera average out the light. Michael also make us try tilting the camera in different ways to get different views of the same thing.
Here are a few of my favorites.

  • CN Tower - cool angle and trees in foreground add context (linear perspective)
  • Photo of someone taking a photo of someone taking a photo (I like the chain of events idea)
  • BCE place from the other side of the fence (liked the contrast against all the whiteness)
  • Light off trees & plants just outside the BCE place
  • Cool statue in front of Union Station (thirds)
  • Sparrow in between all the pigeons (nice triangle)
    Jen

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        We had our last field trip for my George Brown "Travel Photography" class. This time we went to the Sunnyside pavilion near the lakeshore. (This is where we went to see fireworks a few days before our wedding and it took Chris 3 hours to drive home afterwards!)
    For our field it, it was a very cold Saturday morning, I was impressed that everyone in the class showed up. I had enough layers on to keep warm, but I was still happy to go home when we all agreed that we had done enough.
    Our teacher is planning on starting a photo club for everyone who has taken this class. I think it would be great, especially if we can keep doing field trips and if we can see everyone's travel photos when they get back from a trip. We had an amazing guest photographer come to our last class. She brought her photo albums from India and the shots were so powerful and colourful and wonderful moments. She has recently switched careers from running her own dancing school. What a big move, but she definitely has the skill to do it. I really enjoyed hearing about her trip. I will have to decide if my next trip is going to be: a vacation, or travelling or photo travelling. To get the really good pictures I think you really need to have photography as the primary reason for your trip. Especially when I looked back on the dismal snapshots that I took in Europe back in 1991. Yeah, it is always possible to get a few good shots because of the environment, but to get a good collection you would need to work at it.
    Jen





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