Here I attempted to complete the weekly challenge. Firstly, I was instructed to capture sun flare, which I got in two of the three. I found that using a slightly wider aperture would allow more 'flare' into the lens (e.g f/8 over f/11). For the self portrait, I tried to honour my heritage in a serious version of bedtime reading (hat: Russian; book: Canadian; gown: British). My silhouette was that of Port Metro Vancouver during a tour of the harbour, I like the fact that there a two levels of silouette, but I also find the light boring. RN
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The First of November was the first snowfall of the year for those in Vancouver... At least for those at an elevation of over 1,000 metres. And while I am busy shooting my Skytrain series, there is always time for my bears on top of the mountain. As soon as I stepped off the gondola, I felt the coldness- I had not come prepared! But of course the excitement was too high to care for such matters, so when I approached the bears I could not stop snapping in the snow. This would eventually lead to a suspected short circuit caused by water damage in my shutter button, but I had got what I had come for: bears in the snow!
P.S: my camera did heal after a full day of drying. Last Saturday, Jason, Jerry and I decided to hit the stations for Halloween. At first, we chose the Canada Line for its tunnels, but were quickly disheartened after officers told us tripods were not permitted on the platform. We then switched to the Expo Line, where we spent a lengthy amount of time at Chinatown trying to get the shot. In a sudden change of attitude we transferred back onto the Canada Line to get to the airport for sunset. Our original plan was to get to a runway and shoot planes landing, unfortunately we picked the wrong runway! Since the two were about half an hour apart (walking), we couldn't make it to the other runway before sunset, so we settled for the Sea Island Skytrain Station as our spot to shoot (this later turned out to be an expensive decision...) However, this turned out for the best, as an array of planes trains and automobiles were all visible in front of the glowing sun. What a way to spend Halloween! For more photos of our adventure, check out my Flickr: |
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