Okay, so remember how a couple weeks ago I made a post that kinda stretched the rules?

Well, yeah, this one kinda stretches them even farther.

Here was the idea. I could get another photographer to set up a shot, and then I could take over their computer remotely and trigger the shot from here.

But my volunteer was a PC user, and I couldn’t get over that mac/PC divide, so after an hour or two of trying to solve the problem technically, I just told her what I was looking for and got her to push the button herself.

But it was my idea.

Sort of.

And it’s my post processing.

Mostly.

Anyway, this is Nicole.

This is Lisa. She’s getting married tomorrow.

I know what you’re thinking. If I’m shooting her wedding tomorrow, why did I use her as a PAD yesterday (I know, I’m trying to keep up.)?

Because using her as my portrait of the day tomorrow would be too easy. There’ll be dozens of people I can take portraits of. (Unlike today, when everyone ignored me….) So, rather than pick the low hanging fruit (metaphorically), I’m going to challenge myself to take a picture of someone who is not the bride. Yes. The groom. I know. That’s probably who it’ll be. But you never know. I might surprise you.

My sister lives for the time she gets to spend in the bath. She’s a bit of a clean freak, but also, having raised 36 kids (her own or foster), getting a bit of time to herself was a luxury. Sometimes, however, she takes the idea of getting away from it all in the tub a little too far….In this case, hauling the tub from her childhood home in Saskatchewan into the mountains of Northern BC for a bit of a soak.

Sometimes you just gotta throw caution to the wind, and play. While the photo is fairly simple, I maybe went a little overboard in post. But it was fun. And that’s the whole point of this.

Oh, and the colour? I used two coloured gels for background and hair, and then basically post processed it out. Ah well. This is Shayna.

Had another killer sunset, so grabbed Lesa and ran for my favourite portrait location. Of course, I missed most of it, but caught that great soft portrait light after the sun has just gone down. All in all, a fair tradeoff….

Yeah, I admit, I like eyes. Especially these ones.

Aiden. Riding his bike. As fast as he can.

This is one of those rare times when I set out on a shoot with an idea and, what do you know, the photo looks nearly exactly like I envisioned. (Typically I get better ideas along the way. Here, the idea was pretty solid to start out with.) Darin has been playing along with these PADs over on Facebook, and he’s got a very distinctive style of lighting. I wanted to hint at his style of lighting, even though I don’t have the same set-up as he does.

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Nearly caught up here. Had a portrait shoot the other day with the Kornelsens, back in town from Winnipeg (you gotta love it when people drive across three provinces just to get me to do their pictures. Oh, and visit all their friends here, too.) The shoot was down at Flatbed, and I caught this shot of Lily, their daughter, jumping near the end of the shoot. And by caught I mean I said “hey, Lily, go and jump over the channel over there…”

Driving home from camp. A perfect rainbow. Stopped just a moment too late to capture the full bow, but sent Zoe out down the middle of the Highway (with mom and dad on careful lookout for cars) to chase down the pot of gold.