The bride’s hands, decorated in the style of the Indian component of the ‘Indo-Polska’ wedding.
Preparations, Patel-Vieth Wedding, July 2010
I wanted to get a bit of a glamor shoot making-of in this shot, so I shot directly into the flash and umbrella.
Strobist info: shot directly at a SB-28 with a shoot-through umbrella on a light-stand, in-camera.
I wanted to get a bit of a glamor shoot making-of in this shot, so I shot directly into the flash and umbrella.
Strobist info: shot directly into SB-28 in a shoot-through umbrella on light-stand, in-camera.
Flowers, Patel-Vieth Wedding, July 2010
I have not been posting for a lot of reasons: I have been traveling, I have had a lot to do, and I have been editing tons of photos from Sheila and Peter’s wedding, which I shot in July. I didn’t want to share any of the images before they had seen all of the edits, and I have been long in doing them due to my research trip the HMML in Minnesota. Now that I am working on the final edits, I thought I would push a few of them over here to flickr and my weblog, to share some of what I have been doing. It was my first wedding, and any comments or feedback are welcome.
Peter and Sheila made their own bouquets, corsages, and the like, which I appropriated before they were distributed, in order to capture them in their pristine state.
I had awful problems with the color temperature of the shadows in this flash-lit, indoor photo being too blue–after much color correction, I still had to desaturate blues and cyans in order to make it look really white–has anyone else dealt with this specific problem, and has a workaround?
I have not been posting for a lot of reasons: I have been traveling, I have had a lot to do, and I have been editing tons of photos from Sheila and Peter’s wedding, which I shot in July. I didn’t want to share any of the images before they had seen all of the edits, and I have been long in doing them due to my research trip the HMML in Minnesota. Now that I am working on the final edits, I thought I would push a few of them over here to flickr and my weblog, to share some of what I have been doing. It was my first wedding, and any comments or feedback are welcome.
Peter and Sheila made their own bouquets, corsages, and the like, which I appropriated before they were distributed, in order to capture them in their pristine state.
I had awful problems with the color temperature of the shadows in this flash-lit, indoor photo being too blue–after much color correction, I still had to desaturate blues and cyans in order to make it look really white–has anyone else dealt with this specific problem, and has a workaround?
Priest’s Cat, Mek’ele, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2009
A priest’s cat sits on some news-sheets, patiently waiting for her master’s interview to be completed.
Abraham and Isaac, 2010 PLS Chester Play Cycle, Toronto
Abraham at the moment of sacrificing Isaac, as part of the 2010 Chester Plays at Victoria College, the University of Toronto, under the direction of the PLS.
God, The Flood, 2010 PLS Chester Play Cycle, Toronto
God studies his lines while the wagon stage is set up,and unfurls the rainbow signaling his promise to Noah to never flood the earth again, at the end of the play of Noah’s Ark and The Flood, one of the plays of the Chester Cycle, performed in their entirety at Victoria College, the University of Toronto, under the auspices of Poculis Ludique Societas (Drinking and Gaming Society), a group devoted to medieval and early modern theatre and associated with the Centre for Drama at the U of T.
And now for something a little different. . .
I wanted to experiment a bit with a punchier, more-saturated look, and this is what came out of a shoot with Pop the cat.
Strobist info: 1 SB-28 in a shoot through umbrella camera right to fill open shade.
I wanted to experiment a bit with a punchier, more-saturated look, and this is what came out of a shoot with Pop the cat.
Strobist info: 1 SB-28 in a shoot through umbrella camera right to fill open shade.
Horse, Gonder, Ethiopia, 2009
A horse grazes on a rainy day, just outside the tamari betoch (student huts) of the famous church of Debre Berhan Selassie, in Gonder.
Arabic Writing Teacher, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, 2009
A teacher of arabic writing at the mosque in Bahir Dar. Moslems are a significant minority in areas of the North, and comprise a majority in the Eastern areas of Ethiopia.
Deacon(?), Andabet, Amhara, Ethiopia, 2009
This gentleman, whose name I have sadly forgotten, was a farmer and a deacon (I believe) at the local church. When I was in the Andabet area for research, he showed my translator and me to the various farms of the priests who made parchment and scribed books.