iPhone Summer

The first day that it felt like summer I walked around commercial and took some pictures. I also went to wreck beach one day and took some pictures but unfortunately my phone died almost right after we got there. I am still favouring the camera+ app right now. Its amazing how good the iphone camera actually is although it will never replace my Canon! Here are some of the pics from those days. (I also included a picture from one of the canucks playoff games downtown.)

Sunny in the South

On thursday I went to White Rock with a friend from work. When I woke up it looked like it was going to be a cold rainy day. Luckily once we got to White Rock it turned out to be a sunny and beautiful! I even got a little bit of a burn. White Rock is so peaceful and pretty and I am really happy I got the chance to take some pictures of the pier and the beach. Here are my favourites(there are lots!) from the day.

Practice makes perfect

Before Lill's wedding I wanted to practice shooting with flash outdoors as well as shooting a white dress. Unfortunately Lucy is going away before I am able to purchase an external flash so we were only able to practice with the white dress. We decided to shoot in North Van at her boyfriends house because he literally has a river in his backyard! I have being playing around in photoshop and I created a simple watermark for fun which I decided to put on the pictures we took. Here are some of my favourties from the day.

Mudjacking

Last weekend I did my first live band shoot at a bar called Malones downtown. It was for a band called Mudjack whose lead singer I met through work. I knew that my kit lens wasnt going to be good enough to use in the low lighting so I bought a new 50mm lens which has a low aperature (meaning it lets in alot of light and is good to use when there isnt much available) The lens was really cheap ($130) and im excited to get to use it again. I decided to try to shoot in RAW format instead of JPEG this time because I wanted to practice editing with it and also because it lets you have alot more control over adding light then JPEG. This helped alot for some of the pictures because the lighting was terrible at Malones, especially when it came to the drummer and bass player. Here are some of my favourite pics from the gig.

Its raining its pouring

I did another photo shoot with Lucy and this time we decided to go to a park close to our places called Queen Elizabeth Park. The day started off a little rainy with a few showers here and there. In the middle of the shoot though it started to pour. Luckily there was a conservatory in the middle of the park that we went into to get a bit dry. Oh and of course to take some pictures in as well! I already have Lucy and I next photo shoot planned out, something a bit more crazy. Here are some of my favourite shots from the day.

Theres an app for that

When I first got my Iphone I downloaded a bunch of photography apps and one of the apps I had but completely forgot about is called instagram. Its mainly for sharing photos with other people who use the app and on social media sites like facebook. The coolest feature about it though is that you can put different filters onto your pictures which make the photo black and white or look really old, etc. Here are some of my favorite pictures using the app!

Fish Creek on steriods

Amber came to visit me last weekend and of course I had to take the opportunity to do another photo shoot with her. I wanted to go to Stanley Park again but in a different area then where Lucy and I went. Fortunately Stanley Park is huge so this wasn't a hard thing to do. I had been constantly checking the weather for when she was coming to visit hoping it would be sunny the whole time. Unfortunately on the day we decided to do the shoot it was raining and I was of course not wearing rain proof foot wear. That didn't deter us and we got some great shots! This was probably my favourite shoot that I did with amber. While at the beach taking pictures a group of tourists on a trolley tour drove by and waved at us, it felt like we were famous! Amber helped me edit the pictures afterwards which was cool experience. I lost both my umbrellas during her visit but it was well worth it! Here are my favourite pictures from the shoot.