August 2009
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By Sabrina on August 31, 2009
garden art 1 van dusen gardens, vancouver My assignment of shooting at the Van Dusen Gardens took on a personal twist this month with an exhibit of Shona stone sculptures from Zimbabwe, my home country. The exhibition of between 150 to 200 sculptures is traveling the world and Vancouver is the only North American stop [...]
Posted in black and white |
By Sabrina on August 29, 2009
ferris and needle seattle, washington This is one of my favourite images but I’ve never included it as a blog posting. It was taken about a year ago during my very first workshop with Bryan Peterson in Seattle. Playing around with the free Photoshop Actions I downloaded from The Pioneer Woman I mentioned in my [...]
Posted in architecture, photo of the day, photoshop |
By Sabrina on August 27, 2009
shopping list gastown, vancouver This image is from my weekend photowalk in Vancouver’s Gastown. It was processed in Photoshop using Actions from The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond. Download them for free here. This is the first time I’ve used Photoshop Actions; I like them!
Posted in photoshop |
By Sabrina on August 25, 2009
a study in flash vancouver bc Last Saturday a small group of photogs–inccidently all Nikon shooters–met up to do a two hour photowalk in the Gastown area of Vancouver. Most of us first met during the Vancouver Worldwide Photowalk and having had so much fun, decided to get together again to shoot around the city. [...]
Posted in flash |
By Sabrina on August 19, 2009
ride above it all richmond to vancouver As promised here’s another shot taken from the Canada Line, this time on the Richmond side where it is all above ground. I was just lucky enough to be near a window with my G9. The shot was cropped slightly and processed in Photoshop using techniques I [...]
Posted in black and white, photoshop |
By Sabrina on August 18, 2009
speed richmond to vancouver Vancouver and Whistler are hosting the next Winter Olympics and yesterday marked one of the biggest milestones on the way to February 2010. For the past four years, construction of the light rail system from the Airport/Richmond to downtown Vancouver has caused grief for both drivers and business owners along the [...]
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By Sabrina on August 16, 2009
wedding by kang l. It has been a couple of months since my first in focus interview and today I am thrilled to bring to you, Kang Leong–sometimes known as “John Woo” or simply LondonEater. Following my usual MO, I asked Kang to send me a photograph and then I fired off a set of [...]
Posted in food, in focus, interview |
By Sabrina on August 13, 2009
monet’s garden queen elizabeth park, vancouver Painting with your camera is another easy technique to use to create images. I’ve used this technique that Bryan taught us many times and mostly with flowers. Recently I used this technique with Nikon’s multiple exposure feature to create a wonderfully textured image titled “Speedwell” for my long term [...]
Posted in flowers, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on August 11, 2009
summer nights in the city vancouver, bc Today’s posting is a the visual reminder that the camera can do some wonderful things even without Photoshop. As Bryan reminded us, zooming is a very easy technique to use even with unexpected subject matter like this city skyline at night. I threw on the only colour filter [...]
Posted in architecture, workshops |
By Sabrina on August 9, 2009
swirl queen elizabeth park, vancouver I wanted to find a way to share some of the bloopers from my weekend workshop and still preserve my dignity. The more I thought about it, the more I realized it just wasn’t going to be pretty unless Photoshop was involved. Digital manipulation has become part of photography whether [...]
Posted in musings, nature, photoshop, workshops |
By Sabrina on August 6, 2009
irene vancouver bc Irene was one of the participants in Bryan Peterson’s workshop last weekend. I have a bone to pick with her but more about that later. This portrait was taken in a hotel parking lot in downtown Vancouver which goes to prove that a good photograph can be created almost anywhere. I feel [...]
Posted in great faces, people, workshops |
By Sabrina on August 5, 2009
Posted in closeup, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on August 3, 2009
fine feather steveston, bc One of the most interesting instructive moments of this past weekend with Bryan Peterson took place at the Britannia Heritage Shipyard in Steveston. He spoke about the controversy over Robert Capa’s photo “The Falling Soldier” and how a picture is one big lie filled with truths. Those of you who are [...]
Posted in closeup, musings, photoshop |
By Sabrina on August 2, 2009
urban cowboy downtown vancouver, bc I’ve just finished up my weekend workshop with Bryan Peterson and my head is really full. Needless to say it was a crazy ride these past few days waking up before the crack of dawn to catch the morning light and going until late into the night. Friday evening [...]
Posted in musings, people, workshops |
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